Planting for Pollinators and Other Beneficial Insects — About how your home landscape can provide habitat for native pollinators. 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, Arboretum Teaching Nursery.

Folk Music Jam Session — Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles, pipes, flutes, squeezeboxes — you name it! — and join your fellow musicians during the lunch hour for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, klezmer and other world music. All skill levels welcome. Listeners, too! Noon Friday, Dec. 9, Wyatt Deck. (The arboretum announced that the Dec. 9 Folk Music Jam Session is the last one on the schedule for 2011.)

Walk With Warren — With Warren Roberts, retired superintendent of the arboretum. Noon Wednesday, Dec. 14, gazebo.

Under the Redwood Canopy — With this program, the arboretum invites people to "enjoy the peace and silence of the redwood grove on a foggy winter day" (provided the weather cooperates, that is). 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, Wyatt Deck.

All programs are free and open to the public. More information: (530) 752-4880 or arboretum.ucdavis.edu (for directions, click on “Plan Your Visit”).

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