Events

It’s The Great Tomato Plant Sale — the largest of its kind in the East Bay.

The UC Master Gardeners of Contra Costa County are offering over 70 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and more than 16,000 healthy vegetable plants ready for planting in home ga

Meet the Contra Costa County Spare the Air Team and learn about opportunities to get involved:

Restaurants are very water intensive and whether the water is being turned into steam to cook vegetables or heated to sanitize soiled wares and wash customer and staff hands alike, it is important to understand where your water goes and how to reduce

Hello Everyone,

It has been a wonderful winter with the return of some much needed rain! March brings the first Crop Swap of the season and with all that rain an abundance of greens! Please join us for our March Crop Swap:

Wednesday, March 23rd 

Set up

Join fellow gardeners at PHIG who are developing a water conservation demonstration garden sustainably using no pesticides and planting mostly natives and other drought tolerant plants in this wildlife habitat. Help us to prune, weed, compost and mul

Become a Part of Contra Costa County History!

Bring your treasured Photos, Documents and Letters to our Scan-a-Thon

Saturday, 3/19, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The Contra Costa County Historical Society is hosting a scanning event.   

Scanning technicians w

Join us to learn a simple solution to saving water -- and money --in your landscape.   In this hands-on class, you will convert an existing sprinkler system to drip.  All the basic parts of the system will be demonstrated and there will be time for q

Lose the Lawn, Get a Garden: How to replace your lawn with a beautiful water-wise landscape

This inspiring and informative workshop is designed for homeowners interested in replacing their water-thirsty lawns with beautiful water efficient landscapin

Our first big plant sale of the year, featuring: 

• Hand-curated collection of succulents, many of which we propagated from seed
• Free talk from 10-11:30 am by APLD member Diane Goldsmith on adding succulents to your garden.

…and as usual, our many beautif

Join fellow gardeners at PHIG who are developing a water conservation demonstration garden sustainably using no pesticides and planting mostly natives and other drought tolerant plants in this wildlife habitat. Help us to prune, weed, compost and mul

Compost Happens:  Compost 101

Come and learn how easy it is to transform your yard waste and food scraps into “gardeners’    

gold”. This hands-on workshop will teach you to make, harvest and use this valuable soil amendment in your garden.

Lori Caldwel

Help take care of one of our native plant restoration sites! We’ll check on the plants we put in last fall, see if there is activity near the bird boxes, and clean up weeds and litter. People with all levels of experience are welcome. Children must b

Are you thinking about keeping bees? Or perhaps you just want to know more about these miraculous garden helpers and how to encourage them to visit your yard? Our expert from the Mt. Diablo Beekeeper's Association will teach us about bee biology, equ

The Martinez Library will be sponsoring a workshop on researching local history using the resources of the Contra Costa County Historical Society.

The speakers at this workshop will be longtime CCCHS volunteers Bill & Kathleen Mero. They will talk abo

Join fellow gardeners at PHIG who are developing a water conservation demonstration garden sustainably using no pesticides and planting mostly natives and other drought tolerant plants in this wildlife habitat. Help us to prune, weed, compost and mul

Gardening All Year: Prepping Your Edible Garden for Spring

It’s time to start thinking about that Spring/Summer garden. Topics such as: seeds vs. starts, crop rotation, building healthy soil, great crops for Spring & transitioning from your Fall garde

• Hot/Cold Composting
• Mulching
• Grasscycling
• Vermicomposting (Worms!)
• Q&A and Troubleshooting

REGISTRATION REQUIRED www.recyclesmart.org/workshops or (925) 906-1801

Visit RecycleSmart online for more information about purchasing a discount compost b

Propagation Workshop with Brian LarsenFriday, March 4 • 9:30 a.m.
  
Join us to gain an understanding of how plants can be reproduced under your direction.  Learn how to start your plants from seeds and cuttings.  This class will cover, budding, grafti

Community Choice Energy is the most powerful way to quickly reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by using renewable energy. Every city in Contra Costa County wants to investigate the benefits of Community Choice Energy.

Now, the decision to take action on