See details from last year below and mark your calendar for this year!
Harvest Day 2025! FREE!
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Fair Oaks Horticulture Center
Inspired by Chuck Ingels
11549 Fair Oaks Boulevard
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
Map and directions
Visit our Resource List for presentation handouts.
2024 Business Sponsors
Thank you to the many businesses that help make Harvest Day 2024
a huge success through their generous support
2024 Keynote Speakers
See our speaker photos/biographies
New! A sign language interpreter
will be present for keynote talks!
In the Speakers Tent:
Kevin Marini, Community Education Specialist:Home Horticulture and Defensible Space
UCCE Placer and Nevada Counties
Nurturing Soils and Bagged Mixes
for Better Plants
Ed Laivo, Fruit tree specialist, Ed Able Solutions
Container Grown Fruit Trees:
Pros and Cons
Greg Gayton, Marketing and Community Outreach
Green Acres Nursery and Supply
Plants that Grow Well in Zone 9B
30-minute "Mini" talks
throughout the day
Tips for Successful Grape Growing
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Beyond Basil: Kitchen Herbs
Lower Arbor
Why and How to Press Plants
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Cane Berry Pruning
Lower Arbor
Wonderful World of Succuents
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Controlling Codling Moths
Lower Arbor
Grapevine Propagation
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Espalier Trees
Lower Arbor
Composting with Worms
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Amending Soil pH for Blueberries
Lower Arbor
Find all the speaker topics/locations (pdf)
Harvest Day brochure
Download the Harvest Day brochure (PDF 3MB).
As always, service dogs only are allowed at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center events. Thank you.
Join Us!
Fair Oaks Horticulture Center
Map and directions:
11549 Fair Oaks Boulevard
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
Where to find it
Download to print the FOHC map. (PDF 82KB)
2024 vendors
- Full Moon Metal Design
- Hummingbird Feeders R Us
- Miridae Mobile Nursery
- Morningsun Herb Farm
- Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society
- The Shaman’s Garden
- Fleet Feet
2024 food trucks
- Chandos
- World Fare
- Java Johnny’s
- Kona Ice
2024 education tables
- UC Master Gardeners - Ask the Master Gardeners Information Table
- 4-H Sacramento County
- Audubon Society
- California Department of Food and Agriculture
- EB Stone and Son
- Effie Yeaw Nature Center
- Fair Oaks Library
- Fair Oaks Water District
- Florin-Perkins Landscape Materials
- Green Acres Nursery and Supply
- Hunter Industries
- LeafFilter
- Miller’s Ace Hardware
- UC Master Food Preservers
- The Renaissance Society
- Sacramento Valley Urban Forests Council
- Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition
- Sacramento County Dept of Water Resources, Stormwater Quality
- Sacramento Digs Gardening
- Sacramento Perennial Plant Club
- Sacramento County Dept of Waste Management and Recycling
- Sacramento Valley Chapter of the Native Plant Society
- Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District (“Fight the Bite”)
- SavATree
- Sierra Foothills Rose Society
- SMUD
- UCCE Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
- William Walker Law Office
- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
More...
Master Gardener sales
2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar, Passionate about Gardening sales begin on Harvest Day. We accept cash, check, and new this year--credit card!
Watch Past Harvest Day videos
If you missed our 2020 and 2021 virtual
events, view videos and recordings on our
YouTube Channel!
Harvest Day 2019 (2:23 min.)
Harvest Day 2018 (1:49 min.)
Harvest Day 2017 (1:52 min.)
Harvest Day 2016 (1:03 min.)
Harvest Day 2015 (1:00 min.)
Harvest Day 2014 (2:09 min.)
Master Gardener Program Coordinator Judy McClure talks about Harvest Day 2013. (0.46 min.)
Master Gardener Tracy Lesperance describes the new things Harvest Day 2013 visitors saw. (2:11 min.)