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.

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Youth Education Field Trips

Teachers and Administrators: Are you seeking a fun outdoor learning experience for students to enjoy in spring 2025? Sonoma County Master Gardener volunteers are offering a series of half-day morning field trips to complement your classroom curriculum. All field trips are free and include bus transportation.

Fall 2024 field trips are full, but we’re now accepting requests for the following mornings during spring 2025:

Thursday, March 27
Thursday, April 14
Thursday, May 8
Thursday, May 22

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:

Schedule a Field Trip

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

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.

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
Creating Defensible Space with the Resilient Landscapes Coalition - Petaluma	9/21/2024
Stone Fruit Tree Pruning - Petaluma	9/28/2024
Resilient Landscaping: Gardening in the Defensible Space Zone; a 4-Part Series - Virtual Event	10/1/2024
Resilient Landscaping: Gardening in the Defensible Space Zone; a 4-Part Series - Virtual Event	10/8/2024
Resilient Landscaping: Gardening in the Defensible Space Zone; a 4-Part Series - Virtual Event	10/15/2024