Events

Please join us for a presentation on Building Healthy Soil.   Contra Costa Master Gardeners Lorraine Frey and Sharon Gibson will guide the audience through a variety of practices that will help gardeners improve the condition of their soil.

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Come hear a panel of experts from PG&E and SMUD explain their cloud seeding programs.  Has the drought emergency affected how these programs are implemented? All entities that perform cloud seeding activities must report to the California Department

The Commonwealth Club is hosting at the Lafayette Library on Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30pm with paleoclimatologists B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam of UC Berkeley.  In 2013, California suffered its driest calendar year on record. Wildfires ra

Contra Costa Master Gardener Janet Miller, part of the team that runs Our Garden* and frequent lecturer on the bio-intensive method, will expertly guide the audience through the process of creating a healthy vegetable garden.

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Lafayette’s own Climate Reality Expert provides a highly informative and engaging update on the latest research around climate change.

Seven years has passed since Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, alerted the public to the perils of clima

Learn how to plant and grow Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries and Blackberries.

$35. Limit 15 registrants.  Pre-registration is required at

http://www.bringingbackthenatives.net/select-tours

Join renowned environmental educator Judy Adler in this in-depth tour of her half-acre Walnut Creek garden. Judy’s suburban garden, part farm

Learn how to plant and grow Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries and Blackberries.

Join us for a community service day at the Upper Sand Creek Basin, a $10 million flood protection and habitat restoration project recently constructed by the Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District. Now that construction is

Let's work together to get our cities and county to join the 90 communities statewide that have taken action to protect our watersheds and wildlife by banning single use plastic bags.  With four Contra Costa cities already having an ordinance, and tw

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.

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.

Join us for this year’s selection of spring and summer vegetable plants. From the ground up, we’ll teach you how to prepare your soil and how to plant, fertilize and water all your vegetables.

Please join us for our February Crop Swap. We will be trading Veggies, Fruit, Honey, Home canned goods, Seeds, Plants, Ideas, Recipes along with books, magazines, DVD's, CD's and gently used clothing. Hope to see you there. 

Lafayette resident, Papa John Kiefer, will again be offering workshops on "How to Raise Your Own Chickens." Topics will include raising young chicks, laying hen maintenance, and sustainable coop construction. 

Workshops are free and will be held in La

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.

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.

Join us for this year’s selection of spring and summer vegetable plants. From the ground up, we’ll teach you how to prepare your soil and how to plant, fertilize and water all your vegetables.

Come out and transplant seedlings with First Generation Farmers! We will meet at Starbucks in Discovery Bay and caravan about 2 miles to the FGF field. We will be transplanting seedlings of many different kinds of speciality crops.

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