Events

Save hundreds of gallons of water by capturing the rain that falls on your own roof! In this hands-on workshop participants will learn while doing, as a rain barrel system is installed in a Walnut Creek backyard. You'll get all the info about sizing

Drip irrigation allows you to save a tremendous amount of water vs. traditional irrigation methods! Learn the basics of planning and installing a drip system in your yard. Resource materials will be provided.

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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

Floral Arranging Presentation with Najat Nicola
Friday, February 19 • 9:30 a.m.  

Najat returns to The Gardens to entertain us with her floral creations.  She will prepare a number of designs, sharing resources and giving tips and ideas to invigorate

“Laundry to Landscape” Greywater System 

Hands-on class on how to install a simple laundry-to-landscape system for your house. You will learn how to install a simple three-way valve in your laundry room, connect the pipe from your washing machine to y

Fresh fruit! The goal of many home gardeners it to be able to wander into your garden and pick luscious, tree-ripened  fruit, fruit that has not traveled hundreds of miles, or been in cold storage before hitting the grocery shelves. 

Step into the future...

The foodservice world is changing: affected by an economy in recovery, technological advances, sustainability initiatives, and an ever more sophisticated public. How healthy is the foodservice industry? Will 2016 be a good year

Gardening 101:  The Basics

Learn how easy and fun gardening can be!!  Join Bay-Friendly Landscape Professional & Garden Educator Lori Caldwell to learn the basics to be a successful first time gardener.  Topics will include:  healthy soil building, tr

You can grow wonderful fruit in spite of our recent drought and warm winters. Speaker Series Presenter, John Valenzuela, will share simple and effective growing strategies and techniques, with water wisdom and microclimate magic. He will also discuss

Bath Salts & Salves with Hollie Lucas-AlcalaySaturday, February 6 • 10:00 a.m.  

Learn how to make your own herbal bath salts and healing salves.  Hollie will show us how to use her homegrown herbs and blend them with pure salt, oils and beeswax to ma

Superstar gardener Marian Woodard presents a very special opportunity to learn the most effective, most natural, deeply earth-centered gardening practices in this 8- week series. No matter what size your yard is, you'll learn to be more self-sufficie

If you consider yourself a local food producer or urban farmer – you grow and/or cook for others (or would like to join this movement) – please join us this Saturday as we start the conversation about food production and sharing in Solano County.  We

Succulent Arrangements with Diane GoldsmithSaturday, January 23 • 10:00 a.m. 

Create a Valentine inspired succulent arrangement with succulents from The Gardens.  Explore ways to create an interesting composition of succulents that will grow well in a

Take a bite out of low hanging fruit with easy ways to save energy and increase profits...

FSTC's Sr. Energy Analyst Todd Bell will share his top 10 best practices that every commercial food service facility should adopt as 'standard practice'. These

Would you like to learn how to manage invasive species using a holistic, permaculture-inspired approach? Join Benicia Community Gardens at our upcoming Speaker Series presentation "Sustainable Urban Agriculture"! Tao Orion, permaculture design teache

The EcoFarm Conference is more than a conference. It’s a gathering for inspiration, renewal, and celebration. We are in an era of unprecedented opportunity, a time in need of alternatives to advance a vision of a food and farming system that is healt

Join the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill, Boy Scouts, the team at Rodgers Ranch Urban Farm & Heritage Center, and other community members for a hands on rain barrel workshop. We will install four rain barrels off the tool shed at the top of the hill. $2

It’s totally possible to have a thriving garden with no chemicals, lots of beneficial insects, and less work than you might think! Superstar gardener Marian Woodard will teach you about:
·      Healthy Soil. We'll test samples, including from your ya

Rose Pruning with Marsha Hildebrand
Saturday, January 16 • 10:00 a.m. 

Join us in The Gardens as Marsha shares her expertise in rose pruning techniques.  Proper pruning will greatly enhance the quality and quantity of blooms in the coming season and ov

Winter Blooming Plants with Kristin Yanker-Hansen
Wednesday, January 13 • 7:00 p.m.

One of the most common requests landscape gardeners hear from their clients is for year-round color.  We are lucky that our climate allows us to grow plants and flowers