Events

What needs to be done in your garden after Daylight Savings Time has ended? This class covers ant controls, saving flower and vegetable seeds, frost protection, dormant spray, fertilizing, controlling next year’s unwanted vegetation now and planting

Our greenhouse gurus will teach you how to use containers and houseplants to decorate. You’ll receive tips and tricks to keep them thriving.

Contra Costa Master Gardeners will expertly guide the audience through a variety of practices that will help homeowners conserve water in their landscape.

Learn about irrigation methods, plant selection and placement, water gardening and rainwater har

Come socialize with the sustainability community at Green Drinks, happening next Thursday, October 30 at Hop Grenade in Concord. Address is 2151 Salvio St., and we will commence green drinking at 5 PM.

Green Drinks has no agenda but for us to informa

The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is set to host four community meetings to discuss the ongoing drought response, the need for mandatory rationing and drought rates in 2015 if the drought continues or worsens.

The meetings will be held

Join Sustainable Lafayette for its first-ever fundraiser to help the organization expand its programs and community outreach!  If you want to see Lafayette become a truly sustainable community, then this event is for you!

Farm to table appetizers - Di

Join Sustainable Lafayette for its first-ever fundraiser to help the organization expand its programs and community outreach!  If you want to see Lafayette become a truly sustainable community, then this event is for you!

Farm to table appetizers - Di

CHRISTOPHER SHEIN, permaculture designer and author of "The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem" will teach how to live resiliently by creating food gardens using permaculture in your backyard and in the community

Join renowned environmental educator Judy Adler in this in-depth tour of her half-acre Walnut Creek garden. Judy’s suburban garden, part farm, part classroom, part nursery, and part nature preserve, features happy chickens, a rainwater harvesting sys

Cool-season annuals, such as snapdragons, pansies, violas, primroses, stock and many more, grow best in the cool soils and mild temperatures of fall and spring. So now’s a great time to learn how to plant and care for these colorful fall annuals.

Martinez Reuse Roundup

9AM-2PM Oct. 25^th,

Alhambra High School parking lot.

Drop off gently-used clothing, housewares, blankets, sleeping bags, costume jewelry, toys, bicycles (working or not).

Donations go to Christmas for Everyone that helps working po

The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is set to host four community meetings to discuss the ongoing drought response, the need for mandatory rationing and drought rates in 2015 if the drought continues or worsens.

The meetings will be held

Center Ave Community Garden Crop Swap

We will be welcoming fall and community by trading what we have and sharing what the fall season brings. 

Bring your extra veggies, fruits, plants, honey, eggs, herbs, ideas, nuts, home canned goods, recipes, what

This October the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour is once again coordinating a Fall Native Plant Sale Extravaganza, which will take place on Sunday, October 19, 2014 from 10:00–4:00. Shop to your heart’s content, as a portion of the proceeds fro

After much success in Europe, coming to Oakland, California on October 18, 2014 from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Frank Ogawa Plaza:                 The First Feeding the 5000 in the United States!

A meal for 5000 people on quality fresh food that would

Are you interested in putting in a native plant garden, but are not sure how to go about it? Would you like to meet other people living near you who are native plant gardeners, or who would like to be? Would you like to get inspiration, obtain motiva

Join renowned environmental educator Judy Adler in this in-depth tour of her half-acre Walnut Creek garden. Judy’s suburban garden, part farm, part classroom, part nursery, and part nature preserve, features happy chickens, a rainwater harvesting sys

Gardening doesn’t have to be intimidating or complicated. Let Navlet’s teach you the basics of planting, feeding, and watering, along with basic plant terminology.

Cool-season annuals, such as snapdragons, pansies, violas, primroses, stock and many more, grow best in the cool soils and mild temperatures of fall and spring. So now’s a great time to learn how to plant and care for these colorful fall annuals.