Spring in Sonoma County
Youth Education Field Trips
Teachers and Administrators: Are you seeking a fun outdoor learning experience for students to enjoy in fall 2024 and spring 2025? Sonoma County Master Gardener volunteers are offering a series of half-day morning field trips to complement your classroom curriculum.
The field trips will be held at The Children’s Garden located in the Master Gardener Demonstration and Teaching Garden in east Santa Rosa. Classes (1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th grade students) will rotate to stations in the garden for lessons and activities tied to curriculum standards. Opportunities to sponsor bus transportation are available and appreciated. To sign up and learn more:
Schedule a Field Trip
Sponsor a Field Trip
Practice Integrated Pest Management for Healthy Gardens
Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, is a process you can use to promote healthy gardens and solve pest problems. IPM involves the use of environmentally sound practices to keep pests, diseases, and weeds from damaging gardens while minimizing risks to people, pets, wildlife, and the environment. Check out our new IPM page to find out more about this critical practice.Succulents
Under our section on Recommended Landscape Plants for Sonoma County, we added a comprehensive section on succulents. Learn about the different varieties that thrive in our climate and how to care for them. From the resilient Sedums and Sempervivums to our native Dudleyas, get to know the diverse succulent species that flourish in Sonoma County's microclimates and discover the best succulents for our region. Find out when to expect flowering of the different succulent varieties, whether you should plant in containers or in the ground, pests and diseases, and so much more.Food Gardening
To grow food sustainably we emphasize using practices that will not compromise future conditions of the environment. We break down the practical implementation of sustainability in our food gardens into categories using these basic principles.
- A food garden begins with good soil
- The right plants for your food garden are those vegetable and fruit crops that you want to eat and that can grow successfully in your microclimate
- Include herbs and flowers as companion plants to encourage beneficial insects
- Sustainable pest management approaches are those that are the least toxic
- Water conservation
For more information see our Monthly Tips on food gardening tasks you can do each month to make your garden, healthy, beautiful and productive.
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Upcoming Events
Event Name | Date |
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Succulent Saturday - Pop-up Succulent Sale - Healdsburg | 6/1/2024 |
Botany for Gardeners: A Workshop and Walking Tour - Santa Rosa | 6/1/2024 |
Succulent Swap - Santa Rosa | 6/8/2024 |
Master Gardeners in Print
Check out our recent articles in The Press Democrat:
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