2010 Workshop Schedule
10:30 - 12:30
Saturdays
                                                                                                                      
Free

May 22  Replace Your Lawn with Drought-Tolerant Natives
Now is the time for conserving our most precious resource - water. Join habitat gardener Hillary Smith as she details a step-by-step process for turning your front yard into a native, drought-tolerant landscape. Topics addressed will include sustainability, sheet mulching, plant selection, and drip irrigation.

June 19  The Veggie Queen
Come join Jill Nussinow, MS, RD, The Veggie Queen™, as she shows you how to prepare simply delicious dishes with garden-fresh vegetables. She will discuss how to choose and use the freshest vegetables of the season in a variety of ways, both raw and cooked. For delicious recipes from this class, click here.

July 10  Useful Garden, Practical Harvest: Growing for kitchen, craft and conservation
Sustainability begins at home in your garden.  Join Master Gardener Janet Barocco in the beautiful biodiverse Harvest for the Hungry Garden and explore ideas for growing abundant harvests of food and craft materials in your own back yard. For the reading list from this class, click here.
 
August 21  Fall in the Garden
With the long growing season in Sonoma County, fall is a great time for planting native and Mediterranean plants, as well as trees and shrubs and cool weather vegetables. Shop now for plants with fall color and evaluate what will need frost protection by December. This workshop will feature Master Gardener Pauline Haro.

September 11  Growing and Using Medicinal Herbs
Join Autumn Summers, Program Coordinator for the California School for Herbal Studies in Forestville and Land Paths for a workshop. She will walk and talk us through the Harvest for the Hungry Garden showing us how to grow and use common healing plants. If time allows, we will make an herbal salve.

Oct. 23  YES! YOU CAN Minimize Pests in the Garden
Are you feeling like the pests in your garden are getting the better of you? Is the score, Pests 15, Gardener 2? Come to Master Gardener Cie Cary's workshop and gets lots of information that will help you be more of a winner in your garden when it comes to dealing with pests!
 
January 15, 2011  Fruit Tree Pruning
Pruning demonstration in the Harvest for the Hungry Garden will highlight dormant pruning techniques for peaches, apples, plums and more. Don Hourigan, our tree specialist, answers your pruning questions.

April 30, 2011   Annual Plant Sale

For questions about workshops, call Bob Weis 484-3613