 | Everyone is welcome at this FREE family event. Enjoy tasty treats cooked in solar ovens, participate in children's arts and craft activities, meet local solar vendors, get your photo taken with Curby the Robot and speak with Roseville Electric employees about solar rebates and rebate incentive programs.
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 | Learn how to turn kitchen scraps and yard waste into a free, natural amendment that will improve your soil, improve the productivity of your gardens and increase the beauty of your landscape. Composting yard waste at home saves the cost and energy of transporting it to the landfill, reducing pollution and keeping the biomass and nutrients in your yard. Each participating family will go home with a compost bin and all the information they need to create this “gardener’s gold.”
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 | Keeping worms is easy, enjoyable, educational and a great family project. Vermicomposting can be done either indoors or outdoors, and is a great way to turn kitchen scraps and garden waste into a nutrient-rich natural fertilizer and soil amendment for your household plants and gardens. Vermicomposting is clean and odorless and there is no need for special equipment. In this family workshop you will create your own worm bin to take home with enough red worms to get started. (One bin per family).
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 | Learn how to assess and optimize your irrigation system. We’ll cover upgrading and updating existing systems with the latest technology in water conserving irrigation components. We’ll show how you can use some of the same processes employed by landscape water managers and auditors to determine how to get your system running as efficiently as possible. We’ll also cover converting your existing sprinkler system to a drip system. If you have questions about, or problems with your system, please bring photos.
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 | Designed for the gardener that wants to better understand the features of their irrigation controller. The course will cover programming the controller and learning about the advanced features the controller offers including programming multiple start times, seasonal changes, and run times appropriate for your landscape. You will learn how to troubleshoot common problems users have when programming their controllers. A small segment of the class will talk about technologies available that can supplement the efficiency of your current controller and new smart models that take the guess work out of programming.
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 | Click on this LINK to download our 30 percent off coupon for all popular Green Living Workshops. (please note that this coupon does not include the vermicomposting and children's Learn to Draw Peanuts classes).
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 | The Roseville Utility Exploration Center was voted the number one museum in the region by the readers of Style Magazine. This is the second time in four years the Center has been awarded this honor (2009 and 2011).
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 | More than 100 moms, dads, toddlers and infants dropped in today at the Exploration Center for our FREE children's environmental art workshops. These monthly drop-in days are designed to give children and their parents an opportunity to participate in a hands-on environmental art related craft project while exploring the Center.
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