Year-Round Food Gardening
Learn About Food Gardening Year-Round in your Sonoma County Garden. Whether you are a beginner or experienced food gardener, or anywhere in between, we invite you to visit our food gardening home page where we offer an array of topics. You’ll find everything you need to know to grow a successful and sustainable food garden.
See our Monthly Tips for Food Gardening Tasks
These are the gardening activities that you can do each month to make your garden, healthy, beautiful and productive. Click here to view our Monthly Food Gardening Tasks
Grow food sustainably in your garden year-round while building the health of your garden environment using sustainable gardening principles. We emphasize using practices that will not compromise future conditions of the environment and we break down the practical implementation of sustainability in our food gardens into categories using these basic principles.
The Basic Principles of Sustainable Year Round Food Gardening in Sonoma County
- 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