Marin

A panel of volunteers specializing in freezing, dehydrating, canning and food safety will be available to answer your questions and share their tips so you can safely and successfully preserve food at home.

Want to stock your pantry with tomatoes without canning? This class covers how to preserve tomatoes safely using dehydration, freezing, and pickling. It even shows you how to use leftover skins! Learn convenient techniques and some delicious recipes to use your preserved tomatoes.  This is the…

Enjoy your bountiful tomato harvest all year long! This class will guide you through preparing tomatoes, making tested recipes for basic tomato sauce, marinara sauce, and tomato jam. You'll learn how to preserve them with boiling water and pressure canning processes. Good for beginning…

Program: Covers serve many functions in the landscape, including suppressing weeds, reducing erosion, replacing lawns, softening hardscapes, and filling in large expanses. Native groundcovers have the benefits of being adapted to our environment and supporting native biodiversity. In addition, they often…

Program: Over 500 species of birds have been seen in Marin County, and you can see some of them just by looking out your backyard windows. It’s easy, interesting and a lot of fun doing backyard birding, and Marin Master Gardener Bob Mauceli will help you learn more about some of the most frequently seen of…

Join us on a lazy Sunday afternoon for a family friendly program exploring different ways to extend sun-kissed summertime fruits: grapes, strawberries, and watermelon, by freezing, dehydrating, and canning. 

Come to the Master Gardener Booth at the East side of the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium for great deals on fabulous plants the morning after the County Fair. > Here are all the plants that will be on display in our booth and available for sale.These plants are excellent choices for gardeners who want…

Speaker: Paula JaffeBe WOW’ed by Dahlias! Learn how to successfully grow large , strong dahlias in our Marin clay soil. Topics include: plant selection, how to plant, growing dahlias in containers and how to protect them against pest damage. Paula Jaffe grows over 80 dahlias on 2/3 acre in Tiburon which…

Speaker: Peter NortonMonarch butterflies are in danger of extinction here in California. Learn about their life cycle needs and practical steps that we can take to help them survive. Come be inspired to make your yard a friendly natural habitat for the creatures around us! Peter Norton is one of the lead…

Speaker: Judy OrsiniAre you interested in growing strawberries or have you tried to do so unsuccessfully in the past?  Come and learn which varieties are recommended, what their requirements are for light, soil, water and fertilizer, how to plant and care for your plants, how to propagate them, and what…