Events

Join Sustainable Lafayette outside the Lafayette Library & Learning Center for a fun and educational, youth-centered, earth focused event.

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Join a Ruth Bancroft Garden docent for a colorful spring walk through the garden and you can learn about how you can incorporate natives into your water wise landscape.

$5 members - $10 non-members

**This Event is postponed until Fall 2020.**

Come enjoy the beautiful historic ranch and 18-acre nature preserve, rarely open to the public. Join a variety of activities for all ages, especially kids. Featuring wildlife fun at the Frog Pond (red-le

Earth Day is 50 years old! This year organizers will use technology to show what activism can look like in the 21st Century and how we can empower one another to move things in a positive direction. Join us for a day of activity, including a virtual

**This workshop has been converted to a live webinar using Zoom**

We will explore the world of herbal medicine and its connections to the garden and kitchen. Many of our most common kitchen herbs and spices are not only powerhouses in the medicinal

Join us for this FREE live broadcast every 1st and 3rd Wednesday as we interview special guests, share the latest tips and provide the inspiration, education, and camaraderie that will help us all live resilient lives in times of uncertainty.

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Selecting the right plant or combination of plants is one of the keys to success in the garden. We will discuss site conditions, basic design guidelines, plant combinations and other factors. The class will end with a short garden walk to look at som

Join this weekly conversation series to explore "Resilience and Possibility in These Times" with the global Pachamama Alliance community. Lynne Twist is is a Co-founder of Pachamama Alliance, and founder of The Soul of Money Institute, and will be in

Join The Gardens for their first-ever ONLINE PLANT SALE and order from a wide selection of edible and ornamental specimens from the comfort of your own home. Your completed order will be available for drive-thru pick-up at the GHF parking lot at a sp

Using the guidelines from numerous local resources, Troy McGregor from Gondwana Flora will walk you through how to design a creative, functional and fire-safe garden using plants found at the Ruth Bancroft Garden. Plants, materials, and maintenance w

Do you have a pressure canner but have never used it or are nervous about using it? Would you like to liven up your meals during winter’s dreary days?

UC Master Food Preservers can help.

Learn how and why you should pressure can your vegetables and

Discover, support, and take pride in your rare Oakley Sand Dune! Let’s come together to weed out invasive plants in this experimental plant community.

We’ll supply tools, gloves, sunscreen, and refreshments.

Large groups, please RSVP to 510-544-3050

Have you started keeping bees and are ready to learn more? Or do you just want a more thorough understanding of the ins and outs of backyard beekeeping? Our instructor from the Mt. Diablo Beekeeper's Association will take us through a number of "nex

Join us for a showing of the film, The Human Element

Thanks to a partnership with Earth Vision Institute, Interfaith Power & Light is able to offer us this inspiring film!

In an arresting new documentary from the producers of Racing Extinction and Ch

Spiny Succulents is Jeff Moore’s follow up to Soft Succulents; the spiky yin to the velvety yang.   (Jeff Moore is owner of Solana Succulents, a small retail specialty nursery in Solana Beach.  This book will be his fourth publication.)  Join Jeff fo

Join Brian Kemble, world-renown aloe expert, for a garden walk and learn all about the Garden’s unparalleled collection of aloes, including hybrids not found anywhere else in the world.

$25 members $30 non members

What has super powers, makes your garden grow and glow, is super easy, saves you money … and can be done at your convenience?  COMPOST!  You’ll get your “rot” on at this fun workshop and learn the 6 reasons compost can help not just your garden, but

Have a small front, side or back garden and don’t know what to do? Cricket Riley, Landscape Design Consultant from RBG Nursery, will go over how to create that perfect ‘jewel box’ of a space as well as cover plant suggestions from our Nursery that cr

These events will give practical, everyday knowledge about the carbon footprint of different foods and growing methods. We will have snacks and include eco-spirituality in each of these events and we will share some of the local and state-wide advoca