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.
Irrigation Basics
Hosted by: UC Master Gardener Program of Alameda County
How to Care for Your Tomato Plants
Hosted by: Alameda Backyard Growers
How to Care For Your Tomato Plants is a FREE Tour of Ploughshares Nursery and a presentation by its manager, Jordan Taylor. Come learn lots more about how to grow tomatoes and pick up your current plant supply needs while at this beautiful nursery. During our tomato workshop, we will cover tomato nutrient needs, favorable conditions, common pests, and helpful tips to get the most out of your tomato harvest.
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.
Getting Started with Native Plant Propagation
Hosted by: UC Master Gardener Program of Alameda County
FREE; no registration required. The garden is located in the Gardens of Lake Merritt, at Lakeside Park, 666 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland. Enter at Gate 4, across from the Boathouse. There is a fee for parking.
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.
Save the Date: Summer Stone Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
Hosted by: Alameda Backyard Growers
Here in the SF Bay Area, annual pruning of Apricot and Cherry trees is carried out in July or August rather than in the winter. This protects these varieties from a specific fungal infection that may occur if pruning cuts are made in cold, wet weather. August is also an excellent time to prune back excess, leggy growth on Plum and Pluot trees. Refresh your pruning skills or learn the fundamentals of Summer Stone Fruit Tree pruning. Marla Koss, our pruning teacher extraordinaire, will lead another great, FREE, hands-on, how-to pruning session in Alameda.
Registration is required and will open in July.
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.