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.
Sprinkler Spruce Up: Irrigation System Maintenance
Hosted by: Alameda County Water District
Learn best practices for maintaining a working, water-efficient irrigation system this upcoming summer. This event is in coordination with the EPA WaterSense Sprinkler Spruce-Up Campaign.
Plant Sale and Spring Festival
Hosted by: Edible Schoolyard
Come celebrate the abundance of the garden and experience the sensory education that takes place at the Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California. We invite you to tour the teaching garden and kitchen classroom and explore a variety of interactive stations based on ESY’s own curriculum. Guests will have an opportunity to learn about our compost system, meet the chickens, propagate plants, and try their hand at bouquet-making.
UC Master Gardener Plant Sale
Hosted by: UC Master Gardner Program
On April 13-14, 2024, we'll be hosting our annual "Incredible Edible Plant Sale," a favorite home gardeners' event, where you can get vegetable starts for your spring planting. From vibrant tomatoes to piquant peppers—we'll have over 100 varieties of veggies!
The sale will be in-person only (no pre-ordering like in previous years), waiting for you to discover a cornucopia of delights to elevate your garden. Our Master Gardeners will be on-site, offering short talks on beginning plant care, container gardening, and more.
In the coming weeks, we'll have more details on our website and the full catalog of plants we will be selling. In the meantime, check out some of the seedlings' progress!
Alternatives to Lawn
Hosted by: Alameda County Water District
Think outside the box and reimagine your landscape! Learn how to transform your water-thirsty lawn into a water-efficient, low-maintenance, sustainable landscape.
Big Gardens in Small Spaces: Adventures in Container Gardening
Hosted by: Union City Library
Growing in containers is a great way to start a garden or add on to maximize your already existing garden possibilities!! Topics will include: maintaining soil fertility, best plants for container gardens & succession planting will be covered.
Drop in program. No registration required.
Alameda Backyard Growers Annual Plant Sale
We look forward to seeing you at our Annual Plant Sale at our booth in ARPD's Spring Shindig. As always, we grow tomato starts that we know from our own experience do well in Alameda. We’ll also offer cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, winter squash, peppers, basil and sage. Our selection of neonicotinoid-free flower starts will attract bees, butterflies and other pollinators to your garden; this year we’ll be offering starts of scabiosa (pincushion flower), tithonia, cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers and more.
A coloring book table will keep kids busy (or give them a quiet moment after the bouncy houses!) while you peruse the plant starts and get caught up in typical gardening conversations.
Please bring a container to carry your treasures home.
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.
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.
Healthy Soils Webinar Series
Check out StopWaste's Healthy Soils Webinar Series that covers topics on Healthy Soils, Backyard Composting, and Worm Composting.