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UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County
Fall in Sonoma County
Children’s Jamboree and Fall Festival 2024
Registration is now open for the Children’s Jamboree and Fall Festival 2024. We hope you, your family and friends can join us! This free event will feature several activities and presentations for adults and children. To register to attend: Scan the QR code in the flyer or click here. To learn more about the Los Guilicos Demonstration and Teaching Garden and The Children’s Garden, click here.
Waitlist available for school field trips
Teachers and school administrators: Our fall 2024 and spring 2025 school field trips are booked. If you’d like to place your class (1st, 2nd 4th and 5th grades) on a waitlist for fall 2025 / spring 2026 or be notified if there’s a cancellation, please complete and submit this form. Field trips and bus transportation are free. For information about our field trip program, click here.
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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Native bulbs to purchase now and plant in the fall. 8/24/24 Crepe myrtles need little water, look lovely in yards. 8/10/24 August in the garden is time to tidy up and sow fall seeds. 8/3/24