PRESENTS THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM Home Garden ......Garden Expo 2011 Hello, and welcome to the Central Coast Home & Garden Expo 2011. We are very excited to bring you this wonderful expo

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Saturday and Sunday, March 26–2710:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

THE COCOANUT GROVE AT THE SANTA CRUZ BEACH BOARDWALK

Home Garden Expo 2011

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WelcomeCentral Coast Home & Garden Expo 2011

Hello, and welcome to the Central Coast Home & Garden

Expo 2011.

We are very excited to bring you this wonderful expo as

spring is in the air and it is time for home improvement

projects, planting in the garden and preparing culinary

treats for friends and family.

We have some great vendors along with ongoing presenta-

tions on three stages.

The Culinary Stage will feature some outstanding chefs.

Heather Parsons, executive chef at the Cocoanut Grove, will

lead the way with her unique approach to preparing culinary

delights. Master chef, special guest and longtime Santa Cruz

food wizard Jozseph “India Joze” Schultz will be on hand

with a culinary presentation featuring Egyptian and Middle

Eastern dishes. Bobby Bishop of Bobby’s Can Cooking will be

doing a presentation on grilling and smoking meats. David

Smith, executive chef at Peachwood’s Restaurant will be on

hand to discuss the art of preparing a good steak.

On the Gardening Stage The Monterey Bay Master

Gardeners will lead the way with several outstanding presen-

tations including urban gardening and beekeeping, herb gar-

dens in the kitchen, the world of peppers, and floral design

using fruits and veggies. Katia and Alex of the VIVA Gardens

Radio Show and Nature Elements Landscaping will present

the latest on sustainable and edible gardening. Ken Foster of

Terra Nova Landscaping will be presenting Art in the Garden.

Thomas Wittman of Gophers Unlimited will also be onstage.

Golden Love will be presenting on water-neutral gardens and

Josh Foder will talk about California native plants.

I am pleased to announce that we have a special guest thisyear, one of my favorite radio personalities, Kelly O’Brien of

KUSP who will do a presentation on smart-charging electric

vehicles and grid-tied solar. We are very pleased to welcome

back Kristin Sullivan who will do a presentation on sustain-

able home design and Cheyenne Prost of Home Depot will

do a Home Safety review.

These are just a few of the ongoing presentations and

demonstrations we have lined up for this two-day expo. As

a special surprise we will have our very own “Santa Cruz

Road Show” as we present Doug Woolard and his team

from A&A Auction from noon to 3 p.m. both days for

antique auction appraisal. As you can see, the Central Coast

Home & Garden Expo will be fun for the entire family.

I want to encourage everyone to visit all the vendor

booths, ask lots of questions, make new friends and enjoy

the pleasant views of the Monterey Bay.

—Gary L. GreenExecutive Event Producer

Adults $3 • Children 12 and under free

Free plant for the first 200 people

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Exhibitor Booth

Airtight Vinyl Siding & Windows 39

Architects Association of Santa Cruz County 16

Bath Fitter 18,19,20

Bay Federal Credit Union 5&4

Bogner’s All Air Inc. 36

Bogner Sheet Metal 49

Budget Blinds 24

Central Coast Overhead Door 27

Cutco Cutlery 10

Fiberon Decking 45

George Allen & Son Plumbing 40

Greenspace 32

Home Asset Defenders 25

Home Depot 13&14

Interior Vision Flooring & Design 23

JM Electric 15

Kitchen Craft 6&7

Knox Roofing 8&9

Lifesource Water Systems Inc. 30

Medina Construction 64

Monterey Bay Master Gardeners 56

Exhibitor Booth

Nature Elements Landscaping 51&52

Paradise Landscaping 42

Phantom Screens 11

Professional Roof Care 37

Rainbow Carpets One 55

RBCO Enterprises 46&47

Real Goods Solar 33

Santa Cruz Sentinel 2

San Lorenzo Floors 29

Santa Cruz Millworks 26

Santa Cruz Sentinel 25

SGK Home Solutions 17

Solar Technologies 21

Stardust Jewelry 41

Suncoast Awning 44

Suns Up Solar 58

Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping 65

Tree Solutions 59

Exhibitor Listing

Exhibitor Map ScheduleStage Presentation Schedule Central Coast Home &Garden Expo, March 26 & March 27, 2011

Garden Stage☛ Saturday, March 26, 201111:00-11:45 a.m. Karla McIntyre & Cynthia Jordan,Master Gardeners—Creating a Vertical Herb Gardenfor your Kitchen

12:00-12:45 p.m. Rock Lerum, Master Gardener—Urban Garden Beekeeping

1:00-1:45 p.m. Katia & Alex, VIVA Gardens RadioProgram & Nature Elements Landscaping—Sustainable & Edible Gardening

2:00-2:45 p.m. Josh Fodor, Central Coast Wilds—Landscaping with Native Plants

3:00-3:45 p.m. Thomas Wittman, Gophers Unlimited

☛ Sunday, March 27, 201111:00-11:45 a.m. Jim Maley, Master Gardener—What's Hot in the World of Peppers

12:00-12:45 p.m. Cynthia Jordan, MasterGardener— Floral Design Using Fruits, Veggies & Flowers

1:00-1:45 p.m. Ken Foster, Terra NovaLandscaping—The Nuts & Bolts of Garden Art

2:00-2:45 p.m. Golden Love, Love’s Garden—WaterNeutral Gardens

3:00-3:45 p.m. Katia & Alex, VIVA Gardens RadioProgram & Nature Elements Landscaping—Sustainable & Edible Gardening

The Culinary Stage☛ Saturday, March 26, 201112:00 –1:00 p.m. Heather Parsons, Executive ChefCocoanut Grove

1:30-2:30 p.m. Jozseph “India Joze “ Schultz,Thailand to Middle East Cuisine

3:00-4:00 p.m. Bobby Bishop, Bobby’s CanCooking—Smoking & Grilling

☛ Sunday, March 27, 201112:00-1:00 p.m. David Smith, Executive ChefPeachwood’s Restaurant—The Art of the Steak

The Alternative Living Stage☛ Saturday, March 26, 201111:30-12:15 p.m. Kristin Sullivan, Sustainable HomeDesign

12:30-1:15 p.m. Solar Technologies Presents Kelly O’Brien—Smart Charging Electric Vehicles &Grid-Tied Solar

1:30-2:15 p.m. The Home Depot PresentsCheyenne Prost—Home Safety Review

☛ Sunday, March 27, 201111:30-12:15 p.m. Kristin Sullivan, Sustainable HomeDesign

12:30–1:15 p.m. Solar Technologies Presents Kelly O’Brien—Smart Charging Electric Vehicles &Grid-Tied Solar

1:30-2:15 p.m. The Home Depot PresentsCheyenne Prost—Home Safety Review


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Land, space, money—who needs

it? With just a few key materials

and some imagination, it is pos-

sible to have a fresh, healthy

herb garden no matter what size your

garden or budget is.

Just ask Master Gardener Cynthia

Jordan, who, along with Karla McIntyre,

will be teaching a workshop on vertical

herb gardens at the 2011 Central Coast

Home & Garden Expo.

Jordan first thought to take up ver-

tical gardening at the 2010 San

Francisco Home & Garden Show where

she saw Robin Stockwell, owner of

Succulent Gardens in Carmel, showcase

a full scale vertical wall garden made

using heavy-duty canvas with pockets.

The effect was impressive: he had trans-

formed a large, unimportant wall into a

practical, prolific garden.

Jordan adapted his idea, modifying

it into more accessible, less demanding

versions that she now teaches her

friends and fellow gardeners how to

make. “Herbs are easy to grow, and

there is a way to make them attractive

while you’re growing them, and there is

also a way to have them close by—

even if you don’t have a lot of space to

grow them,” says Jordan.

For people with outdoor spaces,

such as porch walls or fences, she sug-

gests using a hanging shoe organizer

(the kind with vertical pockets) for

planting herbs. For those with limited

outdoor space (or just the perfect

empty, sunny spot on their kitchen

wall), Jordan recommends a pique assi-

ette vertical herb garden.

Both types make gardening more

accessible: it requires little to no kneel-

ing or bending—enabling gardening for

elderly or physically impaired gardeners,

and reduces spending on store-bought

herbs, which is especially important in

today’s economy. “In these last couple

of years, gardening has gone from being

something that’s considered frou-frou,

something people with a lot of time and

money do, to being something people

have to do to eat fresh vegetables,”

says Jordan.

The pique assiette model has its

own set of unique positives, not the

least of which is the fact that they’re,

well, pretty. And not only is it art, it’s

practical art—brightening up your

kitchen, showing off your creative

prowess and serving a functional pur-

pose all in one. It’s also a great way to

re-use old dishes and give new life to

sentimental dishes (i.e. if you inherited

a set of your grandmother’s, but they

are too chipped to eat from, you can

put them to use in a way that remem-

bers your gran). And, good news for

parents looking for ways to a) keep

their kids busy, b) teach them about

gardening or cooking, or c) promote

artistic creativity, pique assiettes are

great projects for children.

Top it all off with the fact that it’s a

very “green” way to garden, and you’ve

got a winning idea. “For me it’s

wrapped into a whole circle of life,”

says Jordan. “You take things like these

dishes, and rather than dispose of

them, you reuse them. It goes well,

because there is nothing more whole

circle in life than gardening.”

What You Need: Not much, according

to Jordan. To start, whether it’s on your

kitchen wall or an outdoor fence, the

vertical herb garden needs good sunlight

and ample air circulation. By way of

materials, the pique assiette version

requires some sort of board (anything

but plastic, says Jordan; she’s used

shower backing, glass, clay, stone and

wood), tile adhesive, tile nippers, grout,

and—the most important ingredient—

broken dishes. The easier (but larger)

version requires a new or used canvas

shoe organizer. For either, you’ll also

need good, composted soil (“I would

buy some bagged soil and add some

compost to it to use as your soil medi-

um,” says Jordan), and some fertilizer,

such as fish emulsion. Altogether, Jordan

says your investment should not surpass

$20. The project is less expensive if you

have some of these materials on hand.

What To Do: If you take the mosaic

approach, know that thinner dishes can

be shaped into small pieces with nip-

pers, while thicker dishes should be

smashed or cut precisely with a tile saw.

Glue these pieces, including the halves

of bowls, mugs or cups that will store

the plants, to the size board of your

choice. Fill in the gaps with grout, wip-

ing the piece with a damp rag every few

hours until the grout is dry. For both

types, “you have to watch for drainage,”

Jordan says. Poke or drill holes in the

bottom of the bowls or canvas pockets,

or use gravel instead of soil. After

you’ve constructed your vertical herb

garden, plant the herbs of your choice

(preferably around March), water them

daily (but don’t water-board them), feed

them a dash of fertilizer about once a

month … and watch them grow!

Must-Have Herbs: Jordan is a strong

believer in pairing certain herbs with

certain foods. But if you only have five

or so pockets or bowl halves to fill,

there are a handful of “must-have”

herbs she recommends. Number one is

basil. “There is nothing better,” says

Jordan. “It’s also scented, so you can

use it just for ornamental scent.” Her

other top picks are rosemary, sage,

thyme and cloves. For a more cus-

tomized garden, try researching which

herbs go with what foods (did you

know mushrooms taste best with corian-

der, marjoram, oregano, tarragon and/or

thyme?) and pick the plants that fit your

tastes and cooking style. The bottom

line is having fresh, available herbs.

“Herbs can make the difference between

plain food and yummy food,” says

Jordan. “And when you think about

nutrition, it is about having something

be tasty enough that people will eat it.”

| Elizabeth Limbach


FOOD ON THE WALLSVertical herb gardens make it possible to garden without a garden

CHECK IT OUTSATURDAY 11-11:45 a.m. Karla McIntyre & Cynthia Jordan

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The buzz around beekeeping in Santa Cruz is

no small thing, and it’s something that runs

deep in our city’s history. In 1974 local bee-

keeper Ormond Aebi was purported to have

set the world record for harvesting the most honey

from one beehive—404 pounds of the good stuff.

This week, Rock Lerum continues to bear the

beekeeping torch, speaking about the topic of

urban garden bees at the Central Coast Home &

Garden Expo at the Cocoanut Grove.

For the 54-year-old master gardener, it wasn’t

a burning bush that changed his life, but a rose

bush with honeybees swarming around it. That

moment at his home in 1998 planted the seed for

his interest in backyard beekeeping, and it remains

a vivid memory. “I was totally enamored and

wrapped around it, just watching the swarm,” he

remembers witnessing the surprise guests.

A year later another swarm landed in his yard.

Soon he discovered that the visiting bees were

coming from a neighbor’s yard. That neighbor

would introduce him to the basics of beekeeping.

“He brought a box over and showed me how to

capture a swarm and I went from there,” he says.

“I fell in love pretty hard.”

Now, 11 years later, Lerum’s got four man-

made hives of his own and he’s spreading that

love and knowledge—and, at times, plenty of raw

honey. Having backyard bees for “fascination, polli-

nation, and honey,” some years he’s cultivated 120

pounds of honey.

Still, Lerum says that the primary reason he

hosts bees is “because pollination is very impor-

tant, and I wanted to provide them with a home

so that they can procreate and do their thing.” He

says that helping a queen bee have a place to live

with her worker bees and drones is satisfaction

enough. It’s a bonus when bees produce an excess

of honey enough to survive through the winter and

leave some for your table. In recent years, howev-

er, bees have been struggling.

Since 2007, a strange phenomenon has

plagued the bee population. Known as Colony

Collapse Disorder (CCD), hives are suddenly turn-

ing up empty after being abandoned by their

bees. Since honeybees are predominant pollina-

tors that keep the food chain going, it’s an alarm-

ing trend. And, it’s all the more reason to tend to

the species.

During his expo workshop, Lerum will give

an introduction to home beekeeping “to try to let

people know that beekeeping isn’t something

that’s really hard to do.” He says the cost to start

a homemade hive is about $100 to $150, and

he’ll present the components needed, like the

foundation, frames, supers (four-sided boxes), and

queen excluders (special grids to keep out the

queen bee).

No, he won’t have any bees with him, but he

will showcase the type of equipment you’d need to

handle them, including a smoker, a protective suit,

gloves and a veil.

To feed a newbie’s curiosity, Lerum recom-

mends reading Aebi’s book “The Art and Adventure

of Beekeeping,” and he admits that when it comes

to nurturing your bee colony, sometimes a hands-

off approach can be the best idea.

“Initially, I jumped in with both feet and was

with [my hive] every day, probably to the detriment

of the bees,” he admits. “You open up that hive

and you pull them out to look at them, ‘OK, check

this out!’ trying to find the queen and things.

Instead of opening up the hive and showing it to

friends, now my belief is that they’re going to be

happier creatures if you just let them be.”

| Linda Koffman

Rock Lerum will discuss urban garden beekeeping

at noon on Saturday, March 26.

LET IT BEEWhy backyard beehives are a sweet idea


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the bounty in your own garden


When Master Gardener, Cynthia

Jordan’s home garden produced

more fruits and vegetables than she

could cook or give away to friends

and family, she needed a way to use the excess

rather than throw it in the trash. With her cre-

ations of floral, fruit, and veggie designs, produce

takes on the new role of decoration rather than

just another ingredient in a roasting pan.

Let’s face it: flowers from a florist or the

farmer’s market can be increasingly expensive.

To give guests something unpredictable to look

at and save on decorating costs, Jordan sug-

gests, “Take what you have from your own gar-

den and make them into floral designs.” If a

skeptic believes that a centerpiece of fruits and

veggies would not look appealing, Jordan urges

that “it doesn’t have to be flowers from a florist

to be pretty.”

As a certified Master Gardener since 1994,

Jordan has been making floral arrangements with

produce for three years. Her favorite fruits to use

are those that can be hollowed out to be filled

such as watermelon and cantaloupe because “the

outside skin is beautiful.” Fruits and vegetables

with structure are also in her picks.

For her seminar at the expo, Jordan will talk

about carving techniques, which produce is in

season which parts of the year, using unconven-

tional ingredients for designs and how to achieve

results quickly. Along with bringing ready-made

arrangements, Jordan will demonstrate how to

make designs from scratch.

Since Jordan is a professional gardener and

has mastered the skill of fruit and vegetable

arrangement, she shares a list of the top five

things that most people would not already know

about making designs with produce.

Fruits and vegetables are compostable, just

like flowers.

Guests would be surprised to see a center-

piece of fruits and veggies rather than an ordinary

flower bouquet.

Produce has the same range of colors as

flowers, e.g. purple eggplants, red strawberries,

and red and yellow bell peppers.

Arrangements made of fruits and vegetables

do not require any water to sustain so people do

not have to worry about changing the murky

water which develops in regular flower vases.

The scent of flowers does not have to be

sacrificed because fruits and veggies give off their

own scents.

One of the best aspects of arranging a fruit

and veggie design is versatility. Fruits and vegeta-

bles can be paired in themes for the holidays

such as an all-green design for St. Patrick’s Day or

a red, white, and blue arrangement for the Fourth

of July. The tropics can be brought indoors by cre-

ating a tropical-themed arrangement of papaya,

mangoes and oranges inside a carved-out melon.

The most important lesson that Jordan wants

attendees of the seminar to take home is that

“there is more than one use for everything.”

| Christina Kharbertyan

CHECK IT OUTSUNDAY 12-2:45 p.m. Floral Design

Using Fruits, Veggies & Flowers

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Whether you’re a beginning gardener

or a longtime aficionado, there’s no

doubt that you need a little land-

scaping help from time to time.

Whether it be general maintenance, an overhaul

of your garden, a complete remodel of your

yard, or edible designs placed on the fringes of

your driveway, you can’t go wrong with some

input from Katia Velasquez, principal designer

for her own company, Nature Elements

Landscapes. Velasquez not only spearheads the

successful landscaping company, based locally,

but she’s also an architect, which is a bonus for

people looking to revamp their garden and out-

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She will be speaking at the expo along with

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Attendees might recognize the duo as the

hosts of the “Viva Gardens” radio show,

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1080 AM. On that show, the pair talks

about a variety of subjects including gar-

dening and outdoor living, they interview

seed experts, master brewers and others

who talk about things like fruit trees,

maintenance, and fireplace and barbecue

areas. But for the expo, the couple will

talk about sustainable gardening.

“By sustainable we are referring to if

you have a garden and would like to grow

vegetables and fruit, and mix them into a

nice design,” says Velasquez. “You don’t

have to do it only during spring and sum-

mer. You can do it year round and you can

change the cycle of the vegetables. Where

carrots were, now there are radishes.

Where there were tomatoes, now squash.”

And this is just the tip of the things

that Velasquez can discuss with you if you

run into her at the expo. Her company

offers a wealth of services. They design

and construct gardens and outdoor land-

scapes. This might include something like

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necessary. Nature Elements offers their

design services to people from San

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services from San Mateo all the way down

to Pebble Beach.

“The big advantage with us is that I’m

an architect,” Velasquez says. “I know what

to build and I’m specialized in plants.”

Her company has been operating here

in Santa Cruz for the last six years and it

takes its name because, “Everything that

involves designing or landscape is done

with nature and with the elements of

nature—stone, metal, water, fire, soil, earth

and the wind.” | Christa Martin

Katia Velasquez and Alex Soto of Nature

Elements Landscapes will speak at the expo

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Knox Roofing does “pretty much everything,”

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cash. Those who have just discovered antiques lying

untouched upstairs can get their value estimated by

A&A Auction On-Site Antique Appraisals at the Home &

Garden Expo. Hoarders or inheritors of a grand estate can

de-clutter their living quarters for insurance or personal pur-

poses by bringing any items that may be valuable to see

how much they are truly worth.

The owners, appraisers and auctioneers of A&A

Auction, Glenda and Doug Woolard, specialize in gauging

the value of antiques, collectible glassware, fine art, stamps

and coins, and jewelry. The couple has been involved in

the world of antiques and auctioneering for almost 20

years. In the beginning, they bought and sold antiques and

collectibles for Ebay.com for a profit and later opened up

their business in Santa Cruz.

When antiques are appraised, the process involves

uncovering stories of the item’s past and estimating the

value based on identifiable features, similar antiques previ-

ously encountered, reference books and expert knowledge

of the item. According to Doug Woolard, the joy and fun of

getting antiques appraised lies in possibly “finding a treas-

ure.” About half of the appraised antiques are sent to a live

auction because selling and buying items from an auction

is healthy for the environment as it reuses already existing

products in the world.

The trend of popular antiques changes year to year.

At this moment in time, “The hot areas are Asian col-

lectibles and furniture from China and Japan,” adds

Woolard. The price of these items can range anywhere

from ten dollars to millions of dollars depending on the

age and rarity of the collectible. The best part of live auc-

tions and buying collectibles in this manner, Woolard

says, is that “the price is always up to the buyers, they

set the values.”

At the Home & Garden Expo, experts specializing in

different types of antiques will be brought in to determine

the value of an item in their specialized field. Some

appraisals take only minutes while others can last several

hours. The appraisals that will be taking place at the expo

will be done as fast as possible. Those with antiques need-

ing more in-depth research and analysis will be asked to

return at another time or visit A&A Auction. Special

antiques need great attention because, as Woolard jokes,

“We want to make sure it’s really a Van Gogh and that it’s

not a stolen Van Gogh.” | By Christina Kharbertyan

A&A will appraise from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and

Sunday at the H&G Expo. Learn more at aaauctions.com.


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