Helping People Help Themselves
In cooperation with COVID-19 precautions from the State of California, our UCCE offices will be closed to the public until further notice. While we regret the inconvenience and although our doors are closed, we are working remotely to meet your needs. Our in-person events will be limited for the near future. Please see our calendar or call us to learn more about virtual and in-person opportunities to connect with us.
- Phone: 530-303-8352
- Email: laketahoemg@ucanr.edu
Master Gardeners are community members who have been trained under the direction of the University of California Cooperative Extension. Each volunteer has completed more than 50 hours of formal classroom training. Master Gardeners, agents of the University of California, assist the UC Cooperative Extension by providing practical, scientific gardening information to the home gardeners in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The Lake Tahoe Master Gardeners extend research-based information by:
- offering workshops and classes
- answering questions via email hotlines, farmers markets and at community events
- publishing articles in newsletters, local newspapers and social media.
Physical and mailing address:
UCCE Master Gardener
of Lake Tahoe
1100 Lyons Ave
South Lake Tahoe, Ca 96150
Click on the button above to make a gift t the UCCE Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe.
Become a Master Gardener
UC Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe are now recruiting for new members! Apply today!
Training session will run 1st and/or 3rd Friday of the month April 17th - December 4th, 2020.
Bug Blog
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The Ants and Butterflies of Gates Canyon: Quite the Ecosystem
Gates Canyon, located just outside the city of Vacaville, in Solano County, Calif., is quite the ecosystem. It's one of the habitats of the California state insect, the California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice, and its...
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Eight-Year-Old Boy 'Runner-Up' in Hunt for First Cabbage White Butterfly of the Year
UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology didn't sponsor his annual "Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest" this year, but if he had, an eight-year-old Davis boy would have been the runner-up. Asher Schneider, a...
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How Little We Know About Monarchs...
How little we know about monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus... And how long misinformation can linger... Take the news about the overwintering 250,000 monarchs recorded along the California coast in the Western Monarch Thanksgiving...
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The 'Type Writer' That Saved a Career and Helped Develop One at UC Davis
Can you imagine typing a huge grant application on an 132-year-old "type writer?" Make that 986 pages or a four-inch-thick document. Everyone who visits the Briggs Hall office of UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock can't imagine that,...
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It's Friday Fly Day!
It's Friday Fly Day--and time to post images of a syrphid fly. Syrphid flies, often mistaken for honey bees, are pollinators, too. Also known as flower flies and hover flies, syrphids hover over a flower before touching down. "Most...