Composting, the mystery of gardening! Join Joan Irwin, Marin Master Gardener, to learn how to compost using kitchen and table scraps, dry and moist plant material, and other waste to create nutrient-rich organic matter. Compost will improve your soil and plants, while at the same time reducing the waste in our landfills. Joan Irwin...
Program: Think before you reach for that weed killer! Join us and learn what you can do *now* to ensure fewer weeds all year long, using organic, eco-friendly techniques for safe and effective weed management. Speaker: Suzanne Bontempo, is an environmental educator and teaches the principles of Integrated Pest Management for sustainable, eco- friendly pest...
When a back injury prevented Toni Gattone from enjoying her favorite hobby, she taught herself to garden smarter, not harder. Now the author and motivational speaker teaches others a gardening practice that allows them to work in and enjoy their gardens well into their old age. Learn how to create your own gardening sustainability plan...
Join guest speaker Judy Kramer to learn about what makes local Wildflowers special, and how you can identify them. In this informative, virtual talk, learn how what we enjoy about flowers—scent, shape, lines, color patterns, etc.— can be used to identify flowers, and how these features help the flowers attract vital pollinators. Register for this...
Come and discover succulents and their culture. Learn about their growing habits, propagation, pruning, and see a demonstration on repotting. This is an online event offered through the Larkspur Library.Speaker: Gary Bartl, a UC Marin Master Gardener since 2001, has over 25 years of gardening experience. Gary was lead designer in the development of the...
Learn about Monarch butterflies from the Marin Master Gardeners. Monarch butterflies, as much as we love them, are in danger of extinction here in California. Learn about their life cycle/needs and practical steps that we can take in Marin County to help with their survival from Marin Master Gardener, Peter Norton. After 40+ years of...
The annual plant sale for the Marin Chapter of the California Native Plant Society continues despite the pandemic! Place your orders on-line between March 17-24, and then pick up your plants on Saturday March 27 between 10:30am and 1:30pm, in the parking lot of Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. Both yearly favorites and great new plant...
David Brenner of Habitat Horticulture has designed stunning living garden walls for MOMA, Salesforce, and other San Francisco businesses and organizations. Learn how you can make this unique, vertical planting option work in your own home or garden. Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vn8PFXRoSx2muW2kpizIUw
ZOOM LINK Communities across the country are losing working waterfronts at an alarming rate. Along with the good jobs, the creative industries and the artists that they sustain. Sausalito’s working waterfront, known as the “Marinship,” and is now threatened by wealthy landowners and real estate interests that are pressuring the City Council to re-zone the...
California’s iconic and magnificent oaks support a more diverse array of organisms than any other terrestrial ecosystem in the state. In a presentation filled with wood ducks, woodrats, woodpeckers, and many other species, author and naturalist Kate Marianchild will discuss the keystone role oaks play in oak woodland food webs. We’ll learn about symbiotic connections...
The Marin Chapter of the California Native Plant Society is holding a plant sale in which you order on-line, but then pickup in person on on Sat. April 24th between 10:30am and 1:30pm, in the parking lot of Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. Their focus for this event is on plants that provide resources for pollinators,...
Come celebrate Earth Day by joining Sausalito Beautiful at MLK Park on Saturday April 24! We'll be doing some planting along with weeding to support the 100+ trees and shrubs we planted in the fall of 2019. Don your garden gloves and do a little work out in the fresh air (socially-distanced) along with your...
