Healthy Eating

Dig into the basics of growing your own vegetables with Monterey Bay Master Gardeners. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to prepare garden beds, select seeds and transplants suited to our coastal climate, and get them into the ground successfully.We’ll cover essential early-care practices —…

Grow your own food with confidence. In this workshop, Monterey Bay Master Gardeners will walk you through planning a successful vegetable garden - whether you're starting from scratch or refining an existing space - from choosing the right spot, to mapping out beds and timing your plantings - everything to…

This webinar is part of the UC Ag Experts Talk series. Yu-Chen Wang, Plant Pathology Advisor with University of California Cooperative Extension, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties, will provide an overview of the current knowledge and management of major lettuce diseases, including Impatiens…

This FREE in-person, half-day workshop brings together researchers, UC Cooperative Extension advisors, PCAs, and other agricultural professionals to discuss current challenges and science-based solutions in vegetable production and integrated pest management (IPM) across both conventional and organic systems…

This FREE in-person, half-day workshop brings together researchers, UC Cooperative Extension advisors, PCAs, and other agricultural professionals to discuss current challenges and science-based solutions in vegetable production and integrated pest management (IPM) across both conventional and organic systems…

You could plant from dawn to dusk and still not plant every variety of tomato! Whether you are a novice or a pro, you’ll enjoy learning about tomatoes: their history and some fun facts, the many varieties, their culture, diseases and pests, growing in the ground vs. growing in containers – and finally,…

Ah, the salad days of life!  Grow your own salad in one compact place. UC Master Gardeners of Orange County will provide information on how to plant a salad bowl garden, covering the varieties of greens, the basics of gardening, and care and harvesting.  Add a review on starting from seed and…

Join UC Master Gardeners in a hands-on eventAPPLE TREE GRAFTING.Not only will you learn to graft a scion onto supplied root-stock to take home but you will also learn,Selecting Suitable Apple Tree Types for our Climate,Selecting Quality Scion Wood, &Sourcing Root Stock.There is a $15.00 non-refundable…

Beautiful foliage, fragrant flowers, and delicious, healthy fruit make citrus a popular tree for the home garden.  Learn about the varieties of citrus trees for backyard gardening, how to plant and care for them, and common pests, as well as the current status of the Asian Citrus Psyllid threat to our…

Winter is the best time to prune deciduous fruit trees such as apple, peach, and plum. Appropriate pruning helps prevent disease and breakage of branches as well as encourages healthy fruit production. University of California Master Gardeners will demonstrate pruning techniques on trees in the…