Gardening Events Calendar
Find public events in Alameda County hosted by local community partners and StopWaste:
EBMUD Landscape Rebate Office Hours
Hosted by: EBMUD
Drop-in to EBMUD's weekly virtual office hours to ask questions about our landscape rebate programs. EBMUD water conservation experts will be on hand to explain the rebate process, offer project advice, and answer your burning rebate questions.
Talkin' Dirt
Hosted by: EBMUD
Drop-in to EBMUD's weekly virtual office hours to ask questions about our landscape rebate programs. EBMUD water conservation experts will be on hand to explain the rebate process, offer project advice, and answer your burning rebate questions.
Bringing Back the Natives In-Person Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase
Hosted by: Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour
Save water, lower the amount of time you spend working in your garden (or the amount you pay for maintenance), invite birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects to your garden, support local ecology, and reflect the natural splendor for which California is known by gardening with California native plants. Join the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour for two days of garden tours.
Why Compost?
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
This workshop will teach you about the both indoor and outdoor composting, what will work best for your space, the types of waste you can use and how compost reduces your need for pesticides and fertilizers.
Location: LEAF Stone Garden (behind the Mission Valley Vet Clinic at 55 Mowry Ave near Mission Blvd. Please park on the side of the clinic, parallel to Mowry).
Worm Composting
Hosted by: Berkeley Library
Join us to learn the basics of successful worm composting with Lori Caldwell, the Bay Area's own Compost Gal!
Garden Pests and Nontoxic Ways to Control Them
Hosted by: Dublin Library
Pests are an unfortunate, but manageable part of the gardening experience. Participants will learn easy and budget-friendly non-toxic pest control techniques to help tackle and prevent typical garden pests.
Sustainable Practices for Waterwise Gardening
Hosted by: Union City Library
This class will focus on sustainable techniques for your home garden. Topics covered will include: sheet-mulching, the benefits of compost and mulch, bio-intensive edible gardening, hydrozoning, using recycled water, drip irrigation and native plants.
Drop in program. No registration required.
Composting 101
Hosted by: Castro Valley Library
Come and learn how easy it is to transform your yard waste and food scraps into “gardeners’ gold”. The benefits of making and using compost are many: recycling resources, saving money and water. This workshop will teach you to make, harvest and use this valuable soil amendment in your garden.
Intro to Veggie Gardening
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
Join UCCE Master Gardener, our monthly Talkin' Dirt Webinar host, and overall Gardener Extraordinaire, Guy for a presentation on Basic Vegetable Gardening 101.
One of Guy's greatest joys is harvesting food that he has grown himself. He gets great satisfaction in teaching and encouraging others to do the same. Both basic and experienced gardeners can learn a lot. Good time to bring all your questions.
Container Gardening
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
Container gardening allows you to be the ultimate control freak. You get to grow plants where you have space, to choose a variety of plants and the soil media, and to move them with the seasons.
Alan is an amazing gardener who created the LEAF Bee Garden, a haven for pollinators and toads ; ) He will teach you about different types of containers, what plants can be grown in different containers, where to locate the containers, the types of soil media to use, and when to water and fertilize them.
Students for Leaf Summer Program
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
Students for LEAF is a 7 week summer program designed to nurture young people’s interests in environmental conservation, regenerative agriculture, and biological sciences. We’re developing the next generation of leaders to solve the many challenges the world is facing such as climate change, food insecurity, and water conservation.
Worm Composting and Making Worm Bins
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
Dr. Joshua Garcia is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at UC Davis. He studies how farmers can cultivate healthy and biodiverse soils for sustainable crop production in the face of rapid environmental change.
Lucky for us, Josh loves to teach and has offered to hold a course at LEAF on worm composting and then we will build worm bins which you can take home with worms. This is a great opportunity for us to learn about why worms are so important for soil health.
Winter Fruit Tree Pruning
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
Phil has an extensive in-depth knowledge in so many different areas but one of his specialties is fruit tree pruning.
Phil will show you the techniques of pruning trees especially fruit trees and then will demonstrate pruning the fruit trees at Stone Garden. You will get some hands-on supervised experience.
Propagation from Cuttings
Hosted by: Fremont LEAF
Alan is an amazing gardener who propagated many of the perennials and annual plants at the LEAF Bee Garden, a haven for both pollinators and all of us ; )
Alan will teach techniques for propagating plants from cuttings from stems and leaves of plants. He will demonstrate several methods, then you can take home some of the cuttings.
Healthy Soils Webinar Series
Check out StopWaste's Healthy Soils Webinar Series that covers topics on Healthy Soils, Backyard Composting, and Worm Composting.