MALIBU SESSION

Wine club members! Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of community, wine and sharing positive news with others. Meet new friends, connect with old ones as we engage in a relaxing afternoon of wine, snacks and fun.

Complimentary for members and a guest. Space is limited to 20 people. Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join Clementine Carter and Brewer-Clifton for a SoCal summer delight!

Our joint wine dinner at the wonderful Chez Bacchus - fresh foods, fresh wines, the perfect California evening.

https://www.chezbacchus-lb.com/

Experience a unique cross sections of wines paired with delicious cheeses from home and abroad - let’s have some fun! Not to be missed. $40 per person, $60 per couple for wine club members or $50 per person and $75 per couple for non members. Everyone is always welcome!

Join CASA Hanali Lopez-Tapia, Community Engagement Planner, CASA of Santa Barbara County as she shares the insights and priorities of CASA of Santa Barbara.

At CASA of Santa Barbara County, we believe every child deserves to be heard, supported, and given the chance to thrive. Our trained volunteers advocate for children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect and are in the foster care system, providing consistent support during some of the most difficult times in their lives.

 As a CASA volunteer, you'll build a meaningful connection with a child and help ensure their needs are met—both in and out of the courtroom. With just 10-12 hours a month, you can make a lasting difference in a child's life. Your time and dedication can make a lasting difference, offering stability, encouragement, and the opportunity for a brighter future.

 Join us in making a difference. To learn more about becoming a CASA volunteer, visit sbcasa.org or call 805-868-8890. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram: @sbcasa.

MALIBU SESSION

Wine club members! Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of community, wine and sharing positive news with others. Meet new friends, connect with old ones as we engage in a relaxing afternoon of wine, snacks and fun.

Complimentary for members and a guest. Space is limited to 20 people. Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join our favorite wellness practitioner Christina Shadle to learn about her new course called Wellness for Winos!

We all love to enjoy ourselves and we can be responsible and have a great time while being responsible and having a great time!

Both can be true and she will show us how!

Christina Shadle is a functional nutritional therapy practitioner (FNTP) and restorative wellness practitioner (RWP). She believes in balancing the systems of the body, living a holistic lifestyle, and that you shouldn’t just “deal” with your health when it becomes a problem—and instead take a more proactive approach by learning about your own biology so you can ward off (or lessen) imbalances, sickness, or disease at the first sign or symptom. Christina is fascinated by the midlife transition that ALL women go through, so she decided to dive right in and learn everything she possibly could about it. In doing so, she quickly learned that clean eating, hydration, stress management, sleep prioritization, and targeted supplementation were a great foundation, but also how bioidentical hormones can truly smooth out the rough edges of this phase. Christina’s findings, tips, and insights are now available in her comprehensive online course, “Make Menopause Sexy." And now her new course, “Wellness for Winos.”

Christina Shadle, FNTP, RWP

m: 805.704.5055

e: christina@sidebenefitsnutrition.com

w: sidebenefitsnutrition.com
Side Benefits Nutrition  

Join us at Hatchett Hall restaurant for an intimate evening sharing wine and community.

https://www.hatchethallla.com/

Words to Live by Speaker Series featuring ANN FROST

 “Pillow Talk: come with questions about sex and sexual health, and leave with answers…and more questions.”

Let’s get into it! We will pass around a jar for anonymous questions and Ann will answer all of our questions about sexual health and pelvic health to make us more aware of our health that we often don’t discuss openly (though should) and our pelvic health affects our sexual health and wellbeing.

Ann Frost Bio

Illinois roots, a heart at home in France and Hawaii, and now happily close to my son and granddaughters in the Santa Lucia mountains.

A B.A in French, some dabbling in North African women’s literature, and a futon business all led me to my now 30-year career as a physical therapist with a penchant for helping people feel better and function better in their bodies.  I especially love thinking about and understanding in a three-dimensional way (or is it four?)  the complex ways each of us is put together. 

For the last 20 years my focus has been on women’s and men’s health….including my special passion:  sex and sexuality.

After 25 years working in a variety of settings for other people, I am now the happy owner of 5 Elements Pelvic Health and Physical Therapy.

Join us as we visit three vineyards in our portfolio, taste the wines created in those vineyards and discuss the beauty of our landscape and experience the influences that create these incredible moments in time. Each month, from winter to summer through fall, there is a new opportunity amidst the vines.

We start at the tasting room in Los Alamos at 11 am and return to the tasting room for a lunch and a complete wine tasting. Complimentary for wine club members and a guest. Non-members are always welcome. $50 per person.

Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

The May blossoms are in full bloom! Join us for a deliciously decadent wine and cheese tasting created just for you!

rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join us from 2-4.

A to Z COOKING SCHOOL with Chef Bethany D. Markee

“We bring people together over shared meals by teaching children, teens and adults how to prepare delicious, nutritious, affordable meals made from seasonal and local ingredients.”

— Apples to Zucchini Cooking School Mission Statement

What We Teach, How We Teach

Whether we are teaching at an after-school program, a treatment home for youth-in-transition, or a backyard birthday party, our philosophy is the same: We cook together (real cooking, with real stoves!), we eat together (with our napkins on our laps), and we clean up together (not just the plate you ate on, but aaaalllll of the dishes!)

BIO for Chef Bethany Markee

Bethany Markee has over 28 years of experience in the restaurant industry and is professionally trained at a culinary school on the coast of Maine. Chef B. moved to the California coast in 1990 and has been working in the culinary field in central California ever since.  

Bethany truly has a deep love for cooking healthy foods, and also educating students in nutrition, cooking, and wellness.  She started her school nutrition & culinary teaching career in 2011 and has many accomplishments.

Chef B. was the Director of Child Nutrition for both The Orcutt Union School District and The Solvang School District.  She brought an increase in scratch cooking to the nutrition programs and also created two very popular Culinary Arts Programs for the students at both school districts. Teaching culinary arts has become Chef B.’s true passion.

Chef Bethany currently lives in Solvang and her goal is to make teaching a full-time long-term profession.

ACHIEVEMENTS

2011 Implementation of a successful cook-from-scratch program for Solvang School.

2012 Implemented cooking classes for all grade levels at The Solvang School.

2013 Golden Carrot Award winner.

2014 Grand Marshall for The Solvang Jule Fest Parade.

2012-2018 Board member for SYV Fruit & Vegetable Rescue.

2011-2013 School Food’s Chef Instructor for The Orfalea Foundation.

2013- Winner of Santa Barbara County Fast Pitch Grant, $26,000 for Solvang School Farm to School Program.

2014- 2022  Started a Culinary Arts Academy at The Orcutt School District with over 100 student graduates. Implemented a scholarship fund for financially needy culinary students

2015- Winner of Santa Barbara County Wellness Grant for a Zen Mental Health Garden at The Orcutt JH School.

2016-2024 Turned the Orcutt School Food Program from once operating on a $110,000 loss to operating with a fund balance surplus.

2020-Featured on Chef Ann’s school lunch hero chef’s spotlight for the scratch cooking program being implemented at the Orcutt Union School District.

2023- Winner of Santa Barbara County School Wellness Grant.

2022-Present  Bethany is a member of The Solvang School Board.

Chef Bethany is the 3-time champion of the Santa Barbara SOL food festival chef’s competition.

The Solvang Viking Café & The Orcutt USD has been featured on KCOY, The Huffington Post, The Jamie Oliver website, The Edible Schoolyard Blog, School Meals That Rock, The Santa Barbara News-Press, The Santa Ynez Valley News, Pioneer News, 805 Magazine and Edible Magazine.

https://www.atozcookingschool.org

MALIBU SESSION

Wine club members! Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of community, wine and sharing positive news with others. Meet new friends, connect with old ones as we engage in a relaxing afternoon of wine, snacks and fun.

Complimentary for members and a guest. Space is limited to 20 people. Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Remember that moment when it clicked, that thing that spun your consciousness in a new way, as if you were suddenly able to see? You became in tune with new rhythms and your emotional cadence shifted? That is what we are going to explore with our dear from Mathias Sanchez as we share his newfound exploration of his artistic expression.

Join us for our Words to Live by Speaker Series as we discuss the Extraordinary Intelligence of Dreams with our favorite Taropty Practitioner Lauren Schneider from the Institute of Dreams and Taropty.

For over three decades, Laurie Zemelman Schneider, MA, MFT (dba Lauren Z. Schneider) has integrated family systems, hypnotherapy, dreamwork and her pioneering method, Tarotpy® as a highly effective method of spiritual psychotherapy. Dreamwork and Tarotpy access inner wisdom, creative imagination and higher consciousness for guidance, healing and problem solving. Lauren has her practice in Santa Barbara, California. In addition to individual consultations, Lauren facilitates workshops, trainings, and on-going groups for healing practitioners and laypersons. Articles on dreams and Tarotpy are published in the Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams and Eco Therapy: Healing With Nature in Mind.

Her recently published book, Tarotpy: It’s All in the Cards – A Pathway to Inner Wisdom, Divine Guidance and Profound Healing, won two Gold Medals from the Living Now and Next Generation Indie Book Awards, a Silver Medal from the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards, and a finalist in the category of Psychology and Mental Health at the American Book Awards.

https://www.dreamsandtarotpy.com/

Join us as we visit three vineyards in our portfolio, taste the wines created in those vineyards and discuss the beauty of our landscape and experience the influences that create these incredible moments in time. Each month, from winter to summer through fall, there is a new opportunity amidst the vines.

We start at the tasting room in Los Alamos at 11 am and return to the tasting room for a lunch and a complete wine tasting. Complimentary for wine club members and a guest. Non-members are always welcome. $50 per person.

Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Yes indeed the time has come to celebrate the unveiling of the new spring release wines! Join us for a fabulous afternoon to community, delicious food and life. Complimentary for wine club members + guests are $30. We look forward to seeing you! Plan your weekend with us!

rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join us as author, poet, philosopher and educator Dr. James Meetze shares insights from his workshops and classes with us in how to Re-Story our Personal Myths and extend our human creativity. James is dynamic and engaging and ridiculously smart. This will be complicated and full of joy.

James Meetze [pronounced Metz] is the author of five books of poetry, including Phantom Hour (2016) and Dayglo (2011), winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, as well as Neki Novi Hramovi (Some New Temples), translated into Croatian by Ivana Bošnjak (Editions Bošković: 2020) and Kasno u Dugome Sada (Late in the Long Now), translated into Serbian by Uroš Ristanović (No Rules, 2020). He is editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (FSG, 2010). His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Finnish, Serbian, and Croatian. He divides his time between Split, Croatia and San Diego, California, where he teaches writing and film studies at University of Arizona Global Campus and in the Depth Psychology and Creativity program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

www.jamesmeetze.com

We are so excited to have Jimmie Solis with us to share his work and like a California Game Warden and Park Ranger - a fascinating slice of life that we rarely get to experience first hand. We are delighted that Jimmie will be joining us!

Jimmie Solis Biography

I was  born in sourthern California in 1963 to Ernie and Rena Solis. My dad was a second generation Mexican American and my mother was raised by her grandparents who left the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California.  Their courtship and union is a story in itself. Mom's family was not about to have their daughter date and marry a divorced latino man who already had a daughter. 

Grew up in Burbank with two and then two and a half sisters and two brothers. Went to the same middle school and high school as Ron Howard. I was a mountain kid in a city kid's body. 

From a very young age I fell in love with fishing and the outdoors. Naturally I also fell in love with John Denver's music. A TV series called Sierra had a short run 1974 about park rangers in a fictitious National Park called Sierra. Yosemite National Park filled in for the fictitious Sierra. It was a long enough run that this optomistic, enthusiastic eleven year old determined then and there he was going to be a Park Ranger when he grew up. A park ranger that played guitar, sang, lived with a wife who looked like Samantha Stevens in Bewitched and a labrador in a log cabin with a creek running through the yard. 

Everybody knew that if you were going to be a forest ranger, you had to go to Humboldt State University. So that's what I did, sight unseen. 

My second summer in college I applied for a job at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Wyoming, figuring I'd cook or wash dishes. Due to my prior experience with horses at Hansen Dam Stables in high school, I got hired as a wrangler. I led Dudes on two, three, and four hour rides through the Grand Teton National Park. 

I was planning on returning to the Teton's my third summer, but I was offered my real dream job...a seasonal ranger position at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Not only was it a real National Park Ranger position, it was a "Back Country" ranger position. I would spend the next two summers in one of the most beautiful places in the world, patrolling trails, building firelines, lighting fires, fighting fires, and probably the only person to have ever water skiied Crater Lake. 

Prepared to return for a third season at Crater, I was offered a full time job as a Fish and Game Warden with the California Department of Fish and Game, now the Department of Fish and Wildlife. I took the warden offer because it was a permanent positition. At that time in the mid eighties, it was nearly impossible to land a permanent position with the National Park Service as a ranger. 

In June of 1986  I went to the Butte Police Academy in Chico. It was a six month long POST Academy with cadets from San Joaquin Sherriffs, Chico PD, Marysville PD and other smaller agencies. 

After graduating the academy my first district was Gilroy. I was the district warden there for five years. I married my first wife and her two small children there. I transferred to the Carmel Valley district in Monterey County in 1991. The family lived in a tiny house on the Carmel River at the San Clemente Dam for two years. 

In 1993 my daughter was born in Pacific Grove and we moved a few months later to Paso Robles, where I was the San Miguel District warden for the next fifteen years. 

I divorced in 2005. In 2010 I took a promotion to Patrol Leiutentent and moved to Los Alamos. I was the supervisor for a squad of five wardens in a geographical area that covered all of Santa Barbara County and the Channel Islands. 

I retired in 2015 after thirty years of State Service, and here I am. 

That's the meat and potatoes. I also officiated high school basketball for 23 years, had a goofy big hearted black lab that was on the dog whisperer, play guitar, write, and paint. I do a lot of DIY work on my house here and run an airbnb out of it. I've even officiated two weddings. 

MALIBU SESSION

Wine club members! Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of community, wine and sharing positive news with others. Meet new friends, connect with old ones as we engage in a relaxing afternoon of wine, snacks and fun.

Complimentary for members and a guest. Space is limited to 20 people. Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join us as a Allan Hancock educator, digital artist and designer Nancy Jo Ward shares her work and experiences with implementing AI into her Media Arts work. She travels the world educating and she will guide us to a better understanding of how AI can, does and will influence our world.

BIO: My name is Nancy Jo Ward. I’m a media artist & designer based in Santa Maria, California. I have been teaching design and working with digital tools for a long time. I specialize in creative ideas & and a thoughtful approach. Basically, I like to make cool stuff.

Personal narrative, experience & innovative processes are the main approaches to my work. As a fulltime professor, I  understand the core value of good design. Good design = good art.

Experience unique sparkling wines from around the world! Bubbles are my favorite and I love sharing - so let’s have some fun! Of course we always have to include a delicious cheese pairing, as well. Not to be missed. $40 per person, $60 per couple for wine club members. Everyone is always welcome! $50 per person/$75 per couple for non- members.

rsvp please to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join us as we visit three vineyards in our portfolio, taste the wines created in those vineyards and discuss the beauty of our landscape and experience the influences that create these incredible moments in time. Each month, from winter to summer through fall, there is a new opportunity amidst the vines.

We start at the tasting room in Los Alamos at 11 am and return to the tasting room for a lunch and a complete wine tasting. Complimentary for wine club members and a guest. Non-members are always welcome. $50 per person.

Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Join us as we visit three vineyards in our portfolio, taste the wines created in those vineyards and discuss the beauty of our landscape and experience the influences that create these incredible moments in time.

We start at the tasting room in Los Alamos at 11 am and return to the tasting room for a lunch and a complete wine tasting. Complimentary for wine club members and a guest. Non-members are always welcome. $50 per person.

Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

We are so ecstatic and lucky! THE NASA Launch Team will be in the house! We are so excited to host this dynamic group straight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as they prepare for a launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Join us for all the knowledge - and bring your questions! Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Dr. Denton K. Gibson is a launch director in NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) at the agency’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gibson is responsible for planning, implementing, and directing launch campaigns and countdowns of science and robotic spacecraft for NASA-managed launch vehicle services.

Experience

Previously, Gibson was a senior mission manager. He acted on behalf of program management and represented LSP during integration of assigned missions from advanced planning through integration, launch, and mission success determination. Additionally, he ensured the readiness of spacecraft and launch vehicles for integration, NASA readiness reviews, and launch. Prior to that Gibson was a senior vehicle systems engineer discipline expert. He led the LSP engineering team and was responsible for oversight and insight of the program’s commercial launch vehicle fleet.

Gibson has worked in LSP since he began his career at NASA Kennedy in January 2004. During a detail assignment in 2016, Gibson worked in the U.S. Senate as a NASA Fellow.

Education

Gibson earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 2004 from the University of Florida in Gainesville. He received a master’s in industrial engineering in 2006 from the University of Miami and a doctorate in systems engineering in 2019 from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Awards

He is the recipient of several awards, including a NASA Silver Group Achievement Medal in 2021 and a KSC Certificate of Commendation in 2020. Other awards include a NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2018 and a Group Achievement Award for Falcon 9 launch vehicle certification in 2016. He was named the LSP Employee of the Year in 2010.

Personal

Gibson was born in Nassau, Bahamas, but considers Miami, Florida, where he grew up, to be his hometown. He has one daughter, Phenix. They reside in Orlando.

Some of his hobbies include building cars, scuba diving, and working out. He also is a professional salsa dancer, instructor, and choreographer.

Join us as we enjoy a guided blind tasting of library wines along with some special goodies that scream LOVE ME.

We will also taste through exquisite artisanal cheese that would be the highlight of any cheese board.

Wine club members: $40 per person, $50 per couple. Non-members $60 - $80 per couple.

rsvp: sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

Speaker Series Valentine’s Day Special with author Diana Raab

LOVE LETTERS - how to write them, how to share them and how to express your true feelings in words.

We will write love letters with Diana’s guidance while enjoying some sparkling wines.

rsvp: sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

MALIBU SESSION

Wine club members! Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of community, wine and sharing positive news with others. Meet new friends, connect with old ones as we engage in a relaxing afternoon of wine, snacks and fun.

Complimentary for members and a guest. Space is limited to 20 people. Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com

MALIBU SESSION

Wine club members! Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of community, wine and sharing positive news with others. Meet new friends, connect with old ones as we engage in a relaxing afternoon of wine, snacks and fun.

Complimentary for members and a guest. Space is limited to 20 people. Please rsvp to sonja@clementinecarterwines.com