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Youth Education Field Trips
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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. To sign up and learn more:
Practice Integrated Pest Management for Healthy Gardens
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Succulents
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Food Gardening
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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
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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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Phone Apps for the Gardener - Santa Rossa | 7/13/2024 |
Gardening into the Future: Climate Adaptation in Your Yard - Sebastopol | 8/3/2024 |
Master Gardeners in Print
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