Join us this month for an informative walk through Back Ranch Meadows. Naturalist Jerry Coe will focus on plants that pre-Colonial Coast Miwok collected in late summer to use for tools and housing. For example, tule plants were cut, dried, and carefully bound together to make fishing boats. Pliable hazel wood was gathered to make burden baskets in preparation for the acorn harvests of October.

Coast Miwok, who once thrived in the area now known as China Camp, still live in the Bay Area today, with the largest group at Graton Rancheria in Sonoma County. For more information about California’s indigenous history, visit the California Native American Heritage Commission website.

Space is limited.
Reservations are required.
Location details emailed to you when you register.
Free (donations appreciated).