California Nursery Historical Park Vision Math Science Nucleus/CalNurCo

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California Nursery Historical Park VisionMath
Science Nucleus/CalNurCo
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Vision for this park

• Create a 20 acre park with exhibits that
  celebrate this history, trails, picnic areas,
  rental, archival site
• Restore buildings to late 1930s
• Bring back some areas and events (i.e.
  experimental orchard, water tower) as attractions
• Informational signs about the history with QR
  codes with more information, videos, etc (sell
  ap)
• Develop tours that would bring busloads of
  elementary students (Local History , Plant
  Genetics, etc) and work double as public tours
  during weekend

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Vallejo AdobeWheat, cattle, and riches
Jose de Jesus Vallejo
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Events

• School groups
• Scout groups (i.e. hoot owl, forestry)
• Fund raisers
• Displays of vaquero and rancher history (audio
  and written with pictures)

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Presidents House
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Famous People associated with CNC
William J. Landers
John Rock
George Roeding Sr.
Frederick Roeding
Jonas Clark
Luther Burbank
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Famous People associated with CNC
Bernard Maybeck
Phoebe Hearst
Gabriel Mouldin
Andrew Hill
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Garden Store

• One of first designs for retail nursery
• Reimers landscaping with California Nursery
  (Adobe look which became trademark for California
  Nursery)

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Events

• Create replica of one of the nicer Reimer style
  Retail stores
• Could be used as gift shop, including selling of
  self guided tours, guided tours

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Behind garden retail store, could be a multiuse
building and garden area that could be used for
rental with kitchen (weddings, small conferences)
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California Nursery Office
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Events

• Archive small material
• Small museum (visitor center )
• Outside events area
• Staging area

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Bulb festival
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Packing Shed

• The Golden Age of agriculture started in the late
  1800s as transportation allowed large farms to
  sell their ware wheat fields (prior to 1840s)
  turned into orchards (people like Luther Burbank,
  John Rock, Fred and George Roeding developed new
  hybrids, varieties)

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Events

• Store large artifacts
• House tools used by volunteers
• Work area
• Part of programming

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• Area behind packing shed, could be a garden (i.e
  Garden at Lake Merritt) that could be used for
  several projects
• Master Gardener Program, associated with Alameda
  County and UC Regents (Roeding was one of first
  agriculture regents)

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Childrens Horticultural GardenHow trees are
propagating Genetics How fruit trees are cared
for Field trip orientated for New Generation of
Science Standards (NGSS) (composting, energy
transferal
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Santa Rosa
2 acres
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Conservatory of FlowersGolden Gate Park
James Lick, whom John Rock worked for, created
the original Conservatory Was found in grates in
1870s. Is there a connection (unknown at this
time)
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Preserve historical documents and artifacts
for research, education and tourism