Things to do in San Diego

A painter at an easel outdoors on a grassy bank.
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Arts and Crafts

Nature Landscape & Wildlife Painting

One canvas, outdoors, worked session by session until there is a landscape on it with an animal in the middle.

$190 per monthTwice a week · 1 hr 30 min a session
Hands centring wet clay on a moving pottery wheel.
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Arts and Crafts

Wheel-Thrown Pottery & Ceramic Glazing

Centring, pulling, trimming and glazing — clay to finished stoneware at your own wheel.

$190 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Fruit fermenting in a glass jar with a clip lid.
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Farms, Food & Fun

Botanical Fermentation & Wild Sourdough

Saturdays of wild yeast, lactic acid and live fire — and a starter culture you take home alive.

$205 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
A great blue heron standing on a log beside two turtles.
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Outdoor Adventures

Birdwatching & Field Ecology

Sunday mornings on the Pacific Flyway, learning to see and hear what is already there.

$90 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
The sun rising over the eroded badlands of the desert.
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Outdoor Adventures

Desert Slot Canyon Navigation & Geology

Four full days in the badlands, learning to read desert country well enough to move through it safely.

$270 per monthOnce a week · 7 hr 30 min a session
A sailing boat heeled over in evening light on the bay.
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Outdoor Adventures

Coastal Sailing & Seamanship

From 'which rope is that' to helming a keelboat out past Point Loma at sunset.

$240 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
A couple dancing among the trees at golden hour.
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Movement & Well-Being

Sensual Bachata & Dance Movement

Evenings on an outdoor deck, from the basic step to dancing socially without counting.

$155 per monthTwice a week · 1 hr 30 min a session
Clay pots warming beside an open fire on a stone hearth.
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Living Cultures · Ultra-local

Ancestral Clay Pottery & Hearth Firing

Dig the clay, coil the pot, burnish it with a river stone, and fire it in a pit you built.

$130 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Chickens roaming the grass in front of a wooden barn.
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Farms, Food & Fun · Family-friendly

Regenerative Farming & Animal Husbandry

Saturday mornings of real farm chores: compost, goats, cheese and the harvest.

$155 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Hand planes and chisels hanging on a workshop wall.
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Arts and Crafts

Traditional Woodworking & Joinery

From rough hardwood to a jointed stool you could stand on for the next forty years.

$225 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr 30 min a session
A field easel and watercolour box open on a coastal bluff.
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Arts and Crafts

Coastal Plein-Air Watercolor Painting

Mornings on the bluffs, learning to paint ocean light before it changes on you.

$225 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr 30 min a session
Hands sanding the rail of a surfboard.
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Arts and Crafts

Surfboard Ding Repair & Fiberglass Craft

Bring the board you have been meaning to fix. Leave with it watertight, and never pay for a repair again.

$190 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Jars of dried herbs and tinctures on an apothecary table.
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Farms, Food & Fun

Native Herb Blending & Wild Apothecary

Learn the medicinal plants that already grow here, then turn them into tea, tincture and salve.

$170 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
Dried chillies, seeds and spices spread across a market table.
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Farms, Food & Fun · Ultra-local

Market-to-Table Oaxacan Gastronomy & Mole Craft

Nixtamal on a stone metate, tortillas on a clay comal, and a thirty-ingredient mole negro built from scratch.

$270 per monthOnce a week · 4 hr a session
A scored sourdough loaf cooling on a wire rack.
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Live Sourdough Fermentation & Hearth Baking

From starter to oven spring, taught live so your dough gets looked at, not just the recipe.

$170 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
A cast iron pan over a bed of glowing coals at dusk.
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Farms, Food & Fun

Wilderness Hearth Cooking & Outdoor Firecraft

Fire lays, coal maths and cast iron — cooking properly in the backcountry rather than boiling something in a bag.

$270 per monthOnce a week · 4 hr a session
Two laughing children in front of a tent.
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For Kids · Family-friendly

Wilderness Survival & Junior Ranger Skills

Scout skills without the bureaucracy: navigation, tracking, shelter and first aid, on real ground.

$90 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
A historic brick facade and cast iron detailing on a city street.
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Outdoor Adventures · Ultra-local

Urban Architectural History & Spatial Design

Four walks through 140 years of San Diego, reading zoning and streetcars off the buildings.

$70 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr a session
A hillside covered in orange, yellow and purple wildflowers.
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Outdoor Adventures · Family-friendly · Ultra-local

Community Trail Walking & Field Botany

Four gentle Sunday walks that leave you able to name what grows here.

$70 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr a session
A man looking through binoculars at dusk.
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Outdoor Adventures · Online

Birding for Beginners & Avian Identification

A Thursday lecture, a weekend field trip, and roughly a hundred birds you will never fail to recognise again.

$125 per monthTwice a week · 1 hr 45 min a session
A kayaker paddling on calm sea water near the coast.
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Outdoor Adventures

Kayak & Aquatic Exploration

From your first forward stroke to a river-to-lagoon expedition, on Saturday mornings.

$200 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
Older adults doing a seated and standing movement class.
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Movement & Well-Being · Family-friendly

Maintaining Mobility

For anybody who wants to keep moving comfortably. No intense workouts, no advanced flexibility.

$65 per monthOnce a week · 1 hr 15 min a session
A telescope pointed at a star field above desert scrub.
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Living Cultures · Family-friendly · Online

Dark-Sky Astronomy & Deep Space Observation

Evenings from the Moon to the cosmic web, on research-grade scopes you drive yourself.

$65 per monthOnce a week · 1 hr 30 min a session
Bars of handmade soap tied with string beside lavender.
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Arts and Crafts

Natural Home & Botanical Soapcraft

Sundays making the things you currently buy in plastic, out of oils and lye and not much else.

$90 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session