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Lawn Alternatives for Home Landscapes
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PADG Lawn Alternatives for Home Landscapes - Palo Alto

Event Date
Sep 6, 2025

Come visit our Lawn Alternatives demonstration garden and learn about the many beautiful choices for lower water, lower maintenance, and less fertilizer-using plants for your home landscape. Replacement plantings for your conventional high water-using sod lawn or for designing new spaces are demonstrated in…
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Beans at the Seed Exchange
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MCP Seed Saving Tips - San Jose

Event Date
Sep 20, 2025

Have you ever wanted to keep growing this specific variety of heirloom tomato every year for your family? Master Gardener Mint Pasakdee will share about the basic tips and sciences of seed saving and how-to successfully save seeds for future uses. Also, tips on seed storage, share and exchange with local…
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Online - Ask A UC Master Food Preserver Live Q&A

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Sep 3, 2025

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.
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Tomato harvest
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Online - Preserving Tomatoes II: Dehydration, Freezing, and Pickling 

Event Date
Sep 2, 2025

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…
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Online - Preserving Tomatoes I: Canning Sauces and Jams

Event Date
Aug 19, 2025

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…
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Cut Flowers
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FULL - MCP Flower Cutting and Arranging Workshop - San Jose

Event Date
Aug 17, 2025

Sorry, registration for this event is full.Learn how to create beautiful flower arrangements from flowers you can grow in your garden! Come join us for a workshop where you will learn how to cut and arrange flowers for beautiful table arrangements and bouquets. We will show you how to cut your flowers so…
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Online - Fun with Summertime Fruits

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Aug 10, 2025

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. 
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A biological control agent of yellow starthistle, the rosette weevil. Photo by Nathan Mercer, CDFA.
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How Invasive Pests Are Managed in California - Online

Event Date
Dec 3, 2025

Managing invasive species is no easy feat. Many collaborative efforts are taking place to prevent new introductions, limit the spread, and mitigate the impacts of invasive pests in California. Join us for a peek behind the scenes to learn what state agencies are doing to protect California from invasive…
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Tall, dried out weeds growing alongside a road. Photo by Luca Carmignani.
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Weeds, Wildlands, & Wildfires - Online

Event Date
Nov 5, 2025

Invasive plants cause a multitude of problems in California’s diverse landscapes. They can invade wildlands, reduce biodiversity, and increase the risk of natural disasters like wildfires. Join us as invasive plant expert Chris McDonald shares information about the impacts of invasive weeds and how they are…
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