Events on our event calendar fall into one of four general categories: gardening/farming, food preservation, sustainable living, or seed saving, and consist of things like classes, talks, plant sales, seed exchanges, fairs and festivals, movies, and special events.
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Growing Warm Season Vegetables in your Garden (Gilroy)
7:00 pm
Growing Warm Season Vegetables in your Garden (Gilroy)
@ Gilroy Library
Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm β 8:30 pm
 Growing warm season vegetables in your garden, a Master Gardener talk in Gilroy. Plan your summer garden now. Warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, and squash will be discussed. You will learn about ...
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4-H Favorite Foods Day
4-H Favorite Foods Day
@ Pomeroy School (cafeteria)
Mar 7 all-day
 4-H Favorite Foods Day. Lets get cooking! Cooks and interested foodies should mark their calendars. Entrants need to complete their registration soon. Favorite Foods Day is a Santa Clara county wide event held once a ...
The Wonders of Growing Citrus (Palo Alto)
10:00 am
The Wonders of Growing Citrus (Palo Alto)
@ Palo Alto Demonstration Garden
Mar 7 @ 10:00 am β 11:00 am
 The Wonders of Growing Citrus, a Master Gardener talk in Palo Alto. Citrus trees add beauty and fragrance to the landscape while producing a bountiful crop of fruit. Learn how to take care of your ...
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Growing Fabulous Citrus (Santa Clara)
1:00 pm
Growing Fabulous Citrus (Santa Clara)
@ Santa Clara Community Garden
Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm β 3:00 pm
Citrus trees add beauty and fragrance to the landscape while producing a bountiful crop of fruit. Learn how to take care of your citrus trees to get the best harvest. We will discuss planting location ...
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Growing Tomatoes Successfully (Morgan Hill)
7:00 pm
Growing Tomatoes Successfully (Morgan Hill)
@ Morgan Hill Library
Mar 9 @ 7:00 pm β 8:30 pm
Growing tomatoes successfully, a Master Gardener talk in Morgan Hill. Increase your success in growing tomatoes. We will discuss new varieties on the market along with different “types of tomatoes” that work well in the ...
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Vegetable Gardening Basics (Campbell)
7:00 pm
Vegetable Gardening Basics (Campbell)
@ Community Room, Campbell Library
Mar 10 @ 7:00 pm β 8:30 pm
Get ready to plant your summer vegetable garden! Join the Master Gardeners to review what vegetable plants need in order to provide a summer bounty. Well cover vegetable gardening basics and get down to specifics ...
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Terrific Tomatoes and Peppers from your Garden (Cupertino)
7:00 pm
Terrific Tomatoes and Peppers from your Garden (Cupertino)
@ Library Story Room, Cupertino Library
Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm β 8:30 pm
Terrific tomatoes and peppers. Tomatoes and peppers are two of summer’s most loved vegetables. See how easy it is to grow tomatoes and peppers in your garden. This talk by Jeff Jenks, a UC Master ...
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Spring Seed Swap – Silicon Valley Seeds
11:00 am
Spring Seed Swap – Silicon Valley Seeds
@ First Presbyterian Church Social Hall
Mar 14 @ 11:00 am β 3:00 pm
 A spring seed swap hosted by Silicon Valley Seeds. The seed swap is designed to get area gardeners ready for their spring planting, to foster a strong sense of garden community, and to exchange seed ...
Beginning Gardening Basics (Santa Clara)
12:30 pm
Beginning Gardening Basics (Santa Clara)
@ The Forge Garden
Mar 14 @ 12:30 pm β 2:30 pm
Beginning gardening basics, a Master Gardener talk in Santa Clara. What do you need to get started gardening? Come to this workshop and find out! Well give a step by step overview and demonstrate useful ...
Growing Unusual Leafy Vegetables (Santa Clara)
1:00 pm
Growing Unusual Leafy Vegetables (Santa Clara)
@ Central Park Public Library
Mar 14 @ 1:00 pm β 2:30 pm
Growing unusual leafy vegetables. Have you ever wanted to grow an abundance of leafy green vegetables? Now is your chance to find out how with DIY instructions. We’ll show you how to sow by season ...
Growing Asian Vegetables (Sunnyvale)
2:00 pm
Growing Asian Vegetables (Sunnyvale)
@ Program Room, Sunnyvale Public Library
Mar 14 @ 2:00 pm β 4:00 pm
Growing Asian vegetables, a Master Gardener talk in Sunnyvale. With growing interest in expanding vegetable options for everyday cooking, Asian vegetables offer a veritable choice. Asian vegetables are easy to grow in the Bay Area ...
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Silicon Valley Clean Water – Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour
10:00 am
Silicon Valley Clean Water – Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour
@ Silicon Valley Clean Water
Mar 18 @ 10:00 am β 11:30 am
 A tour of our local wastewater treatment plant Silicon Valley Clean Water (SVCW) – located at 1400 Radio Road in Redwood Shores. Take the opportunity to visit the plant that is in the midst ...
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Build Your Soil (Gilroy)
10:00 am
Build Your Soil (Gilroy)
@ The Board Room in St. Louise Hospital Teaching & Demonstration Garden
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am β 11:30 am
Build your soil, a Master Gardener talk in Gilroy. This class will attempt to do three things: explain what soil is what you can do and cannot do with it, and how to “build” it ...
Warm Season Vegetable Gardening (San Jose)
10:30 am
Warm Season Vegetable Gardening (San Jose)
@ Martial Cottle Park at the UC Master Gardener Parcel in our Pavilion
Mar 21 @ 10:30 am β 12:00 pm
Warm season vegetable gardening, a Master Gardener talk in San Jose. Spring is here, the weather is getting warmer, seed catalogs have sprouted in your mailbox, and the home centers have Tomato, Pepper, and Squash ...
Vertebrate Pest Control (San Jose)
11:00 am
Vertebrate Pest Control (San Jose)
@ Berryessa Library
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am β 12:30 pm
Vertebrate pest control in the home garden, a Master Gardener talk in San Jose. Ever wonder what to do about vertebrate pests in the garden? Those cute squirrels, raccoons, rats, and their kin that wreak ...
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Deciduous Fruit Trees: Pome, Stone, Figs and Persimmons (Saratoga)
7:00 pm
Deciduous Fruit Trees: Pome, Stone, Figs and Persimmons (Saratoga)
@ Saratoga Library Community Room
Mar 24 @ 7:00 pm β 8:00 pm
Deciduous Fruit Trees: Pome, Stone, Figs, and Persimmons. A Master Gardener talk in Saratoga. The talk will focus on growing fruit from deciduous trees beginning with selecting cultivars for our climate, how to plant a ...
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Growing Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants in Your Garden (Los Altos)
7:00 pm
Growing Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants in Your Garden (Los Altos)
@ Los Altos Library
Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm β 8:30 pm
Growing Tomatoes Peppers and Eggplants, a Master Gardener talk in Los Altos. Its time to start planning for the stars of the summer garden – tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. With proper care and a few ...
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Silicon Valley Seeds Table at the Library
11:00 am
Silicon Valley Seeds Table at the Library
@ West Valley Branch Library
Mar 26 @ 11:00 am β 1:00 pm
 A monthly Silicon Valley Seeds information/help table presence at the West Valley Branch Library. Stop on over to chat a bit, learn what’s happening at the seed library, or get help with whatever challenges you’re ...
Silicon Valley Seeds Table at the Library
3:00 pm
Silicon Valley Seeds Table at the Library
@ Santa Clara Central Park Library
Mar 26 @ 3:00 pm β 5:00 pm
A monthly Silicon Valley Seeds information/help table presence at the Central Park Branch Library. Stop on over to chat a bit, learn what’s happening at the seed library, or get help with whatever challenges you’re ...
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Garden Work Day: Volunteer Morning at SVS Demonstration Garden
9:00 am
Garden Work Day: Volunteer Morning at SVS Demonstration Garden
@ First Presbyterian Church of Santa Clara
Mar 28 @ 9:00 am β 12:00 pm
 Garden work day! You are invited to join us every month for a morning spent working outside in the Silicon Valley Seeds Demonstration Garden, located at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Clara. All ages ...
Growing Citrus in Containers (San Jose)
10:30 am
Growing Citrus in Containers (San Jose)
@ Martial Cottle Park at the UC Master Gardener Parcel in our Pavilion
Mar 28 @ 10:30 am β 12:00 pm
Growing citrus in containers, a Master Gardener talk in San Jose. Citrus are wonderful additions to any garden, but not every garden has an ideal location for a Citrus tree. Sometimes soggy clay soil, a ...
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