Educational Seminars, Workshops & Events
PLEASE NOTE: ALL seminars and workshops will be held online using Zoom video conferencing.
Please register on this website.
A day before the seminar you will receive an E-mail with a Zoom link and meeting ID. These allow you to connect to the seminar using a Web browser or smart phone.
You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio and video connection is working.
Please register on this website.
A day before the seminar you will receive an E-mail with a Zoom link and meeting ID. These allow you to connect to the seminar using a Web browser or smart phone.
You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio and video connection is working.
2021 SCHEDULE
MASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINIC
Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 - 11 - 12:30 pm
MASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINIC via Zoom
Have a plant, pest or gardening question? Ask a Master Gardener at a plant clinic offered via Zoom. In addition to questions submitted in advance, panelists will invite live questions from attendees, time permitting. If you don’t have a question, simply join us for some informative and lively garden talk! Registration is required: Please click here to register and submit any questions and photos. You will receive the Zoom link in advance of the clinic date.
2021
Sunday - February 14, 2021
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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SOIL with Terry Lyngso
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via ZOOM
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Soil is alive! Plants and soil interact together in very interesting ways. Learn about the relationship between plants and the soil and what you can do in your garden to ensure that the relationship is thriving.
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Terry is a lifelong gardener, a Master Composter, and a Master Gardener, a student of the soil food web and a lover of the natural world. Terry is President of Lyngso Garden Materials, a 65-year-old family business located in San Carlos. www.lyngsogarden.com
Sunday - March 7, 2021
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BUILD 25 INITIATIVE: Local Proactive Solutions to the Climate Crisis & Nature Deficit Disorder with The California Native Garden Foundation
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via ZOOM
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Register Now Alrie Middlebrook, executive director of the Calfornia Native Garden Foundation, will speak about gardening with native plants to sequester carbon, promote biodiversity, soil health, water conservation, pollination and a host of other ecosystem services that are enhanced by gardening with native plants using the plant community approach to artful ecological gardens.
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Bio: Alrie Middlebrook is a committed advocate and practitioner of the sustainable lifestyle, a landscape professional and California native plant specialist. Her San Jose-based design/build firm, Middlebrook Gardens, has installed over 800 California native gardens and remains on the leading edge of the rising sustainability movement. The California Native Garden Foundation, of which Alrie is a founding member, educates youth, builds curriculum, and has designed ELSEE (The Environmental Lab for Sustainability and Ecological Education), a certified teaching garden for schools embodying 200 benchmarks for the protection of ecosystems services. Alrie is committed to educating the public, especially youth, and promoting sustainability through native gardening and creating urban regenerative agriculture farms. Her workshops and speaking engagements at diverse venues across California have provided key forums to promote ecological thinking that empowers youth to lead in the development of a new urban land use model and ethic.
CNGF was established with the mission to inform and educate the public,
particularly youth, about gardening with native plants. https://cngf.org
particularly youth, about gardening with native plants. https://cngf.org
SUNDAY - APRIL 11, 2021
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GRASSES YOU'LL LOVE TO GROW with Bob Homback
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via ZOOM
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Bob Hornback, owner of Muchas Grasses, will be presenting a truly dazzling range of his favorite varieties of grasses. He'll tell you where and how to grow them.
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Bio: Bob Hornback is the owner of Muchas Grasses, his company that specializes in plant brokerage, consulation and design with ornamental grasses. He teaches botany and horticulture throughout the Bay Area, and is a well-known garden writer and lecturer.
Sunday - May 2, 2021
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CAMELLIAS: PRUNING, POTTING, and PLANTING
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via ZOOM
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Gene Fleet & Meg MIlani's presentation will be informative for experts and novices alike. They will discuss how camellias can be part of your garden, either large or small, and will give you tips to successfully grow them in your garden. www.camelliasfpcs.org
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SUNDAY - JUNE 6, 2021
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SEEDING DEMYSTIFIED; HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN STARTING NEW PLANTS FROM SEED with Judith Dean and Virginia Martin
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via ZOOM
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Judith Dean: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program. Additional training in plant propagation at Foothill College, San Francisco Botanical Garden, and Filoli. Principal vegetable grower for Master Gardener Spring Garden market--over 700 plants annually, all from seed.
Virginia Martin: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program and has been propagating plants for many years.
Judith Dean: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program. Additional training in plant propagation at Foothill College, San Francisco Botanical Garden, and Filoli. Principal vegetable grower for Master Gardener Spring Garden market--over 700 plants annually, all from seed.
Virginia Martin: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program and has been propagating plants for many years.
July
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Start now to Grow a Year-Round Food Garden
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via ZOOM
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Register Now Need a nudge to get your kitchen garden producing all year? Let Pam Peirce, renowned local author and plants woman guide you with her talk and inspiring visual presentation as you prepare for bountiful harvests in fall, winter, and spring. July is the perfect time to start. Her website is pampeirce.com.
In our mediterranean climate, we do not need to settle for only a spring to fall garden. The other half of the year has pleasures and treasures aplenty. Let’s grow them! Learn crops, varieties, and timing to do so in our year-round food gardening workshop. Includes information on container gardening, managing pests of cool-season crops, and links to useful handouts.
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BIO: Pam Peirce is a San Francisco-based gardener, author, photographer, and lecturer. The third edition of her classic regional gardening book, Golden Gate Gardening, was released in 2010, with four different planting calendars—for gardeners in microclimates near the coast to far inland. Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California, teaches ornamental gardening in our region through 50 heirloom garden ornamentals. Pam taught horticulture at City College of San Francisco for nearly 30 years, and her columns have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle since 2006. On her blog, goldengategarden.typepad.com, you can read many valuable posts about gardening in our region.
SUNDAY - AUGUST 1, 2021
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GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES with Susan Karasoff
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via ZOOM
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The bay area is home to many butterflies. Butterfly babies (caterpillars) evolved with and depend on eating local native plant leaves (host plants). We’ll discuss growing a butterfly buffet for baby and adult butterflies, including plants that thrive in containers.
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BIO: Susan Karasoff gardens in San Francisco’s clay soil. Susan is the outreach chair for California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena (San Francisco/Northern San Mateo County), http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/. Susan builds resilient local ecosystems with an “only the easiest plants survive” approach to gardening. Susan grows a buffet of colorful native edible and pollinator plants. http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/biodiversity/biodiversity-resources/. Butterflies and host plant relationships are available for California plants on the Calscape database https://www.calscape.org/ and for butterflies and plants across the United States on the National Wildlife Federation plant database https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder.The bay area is home to many butterflies. Butterfly babies (caterpillars) evolved with and depend on eating local native plant leaves (host plants). We’ll discuss growing a butterfly buffet for baby and adult butterflies, including plants that thrive in containers.
SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
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TBD
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via ZOOM
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SUNDAY - OCTOBER 3, 2021
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SUCCULENT TOPPED PUMPKIN WORKSHOP
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via ZOOM
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- TIME TBD
- COST TBD
- Reservations Required
SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 7, 2021
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TBD
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via ZOOM
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SUNDAY - DECEMBER 5, 2021
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WREATH WORKSHOP
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via ZOOM
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- TIME TBD
- COST TBD
- Reservations Required
