This coming week has many fine hiking and nature related opportunities. If it looks like rain, confirm the event is still on.
- On Sunday, Feb. 12, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Travel through time in the Hayes Valley, San Francisco with Walk San Francisco. Knowledgeable local guide Larry Cronander will be the leader as you check out landmark buildings, the Hayes Valley Farm, and more. You'll finish up at a local pub!
RSVP here - Rain cancels; enter your email so Walk SF can let you know.
Meet: Koshland Park (Page and Buchanan), S.F. $10 general public; Walk SF members free.
- On Friday, Feb. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m., Quarryhill Botanical Garden will host its Volunteer Open House from 5 to 7 pm. You’ll meet current volunteers and discover the many ways you can help at one of the world’s largest documented collections of wild origin, temperate Asian flora. Volunteers lead adult and elementary school tours, work in the nursery, and staff the Visitor Center. They receive many benefits, including complimentary garden membership. The Volunteer Open House leads into their 5-week Volunteer Training, which will take place every Saturday in March from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm, and educate participants about the garden’s unique collection and history.
To RSVP or for more information on this event, contact 707-996-3166 or email info@quarryhillbg.org.
Where: Quarryhill Botanical Garden, 12841 Sonoma Highway, Glen Ellen.
- On Saturday, Feb. 18, the whole family is invited to Rush Ranch in Solano County near Suisun City. Get the Rush is a day of activities such as viewing a blacksmith demonstration (rain or shine), a guided tour of the ranch (rain cancels), and a Native American display (if weather permits). Click here for more information. Free.
“Take part in an interactive demonstration with a smithy, and you may even get the opportunity to make your own iron nail or other keepsake. At 11am, be sure to join blacksmith Virgil Sellers and team as they refurbish a 150-year old wagon wheel. They’ll heat a metal rim in a wooden fire to expand it and then fit it on the wooden wagon wheel the same way folks would have done it in the 1800s.”
Location: Rush Ranch, 3521 Grizzly Island Road, Suisun.
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