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Mar
4
Sat
2017
How to Grow from Seeds and Cuttings @ Ploughshares Nursery
Mar 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn how to grow plants successfully from seed and vegetable cuttings.

Mar
18
Sat
2017
Year Round Vegetable Gardening @ Ploughshares Nursery
Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn how to grow and maintain a vegetable garden.

Apr
8
Sat
2017
Grow Awesome Tomatoes @ Ploughshares Nursery
Apr 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn how to grow tomatoes in cool marine climate.

Apr
22
Sat
2017
Compost 101 @ Ploughshares Nursery
Apr 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn how to dry and worm compost.

May
13
Sat
2017
Planting for Success @ Ploughshares Nursery
May 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn how to properly plant and care for large specimen fruit trees and ornamental plants.

May
27
Sat
2017
Intermediate Container Gardening @ Ploughshares Nursery
May 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn the nuances of caring for established edible and ornamental container gardens.

Feb
10
Sat
2018
Gardening 101 with Jeff Bridge
Feb 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Stay from 2-4pm for Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know as a Beginner Gardener taught by Jeff Bridge of Ploughshares Nursery. You will learn how to: choose soil, watering tricks, avoid common mistakes, and the basics of fertilization. Bring your questions and garden conundrums for Jeff to answer after the demonstration. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door.

Jun
9
Sat
2018
The Art of Pruning
Jun 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Take the mystery out of tree pruning with this hands-on workshop! Learn the basics and leave with skills you can start using immediately.
Topics covered include:

  • How trees grow
  • Why pruning keeps trees healthier
  • How trees react to pruning
  • Seasonal pruning
  • How to prune properly
  • Common pruning mistakes
  • Identifying a properly pruned true
    and more!

The workshop will also include a show-and-tell of different types of wood, branches, branch collars, compartmentalization of decay in trees. Bring your questions and come prepared for a fun interactive learning experience.
Tony Wolcott is a Certified Landscape Horticulturalist, Certified Irrigation Designer, Board Certified Master Arborist, Master Composter, and Bay Friendly Designer. His work experience includes being the urban forester at the Cities of Albany and San Francisco, non-profit work with Friends of the Urban Forest, Our City Forest, and arborist representative with Bartlett Tree Experts. Currently he is professor of Arboriculture within the Horticulture division of the Biology Department at Diablo Valley College.

Apr
20
Tue
2021
Build Healthy Soil by Sheet Mulching
Apr 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Lori Caldwell

Sheet mulching is an easy and efficient technique for saving water, recycling resources, suppressing weeds and building healthy soil. Please join Lori Caldwell as she discusses the steps for this process as well as her own tips and tricks for how to sheet mulch. Please bring all your questions!

Lori Caldwell is an Alameda County Master Composter, self taught edible gardener and residential sheet mulch maven. Her mission is to “connect people to the soil and all that it provides”. She has been happily teaching sustainable gardening classes and transforming yards in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007.

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Nov
14
Sun
2021
Seed Saving Class @ Healing Gardens
Nov 14 @ 11:00 pm – Nov 15 @ 12:30 pm
Seed Saving Class @ Healing Gardens | Alameda | California | United States

Seed Saving Class
Sunday, November 14, 11am
Healing Gardens (Taylor/Webster) in West Alameda

Class Description: Civilization began when humans began to save and plant seeds. Come and learn about the seeds of common food plants we eat today. We will talk about the history of seeds, explore the different sizes and shapes of seeds and how to grow plants for seed, harvest for viable seeds and collect those seeds, focusing on five seeds that are easily saved by the home gardener. The talk will be followed by a hands-on exercise where participants will collect the seeds from different plant materials and package them up for both themselves and the seed library.

Birgitt BIO: Birgitt Evans has grown her own food on a large scale for the past 30 years and created a successful garden and nursery business. She is passionate about growing and raising food and seeks to encourage and educate others so they can also share the benefits of fresh, healthy, homegrown food. She grows vegetables in four different Alameda County gardens and starts 90% of her plants from seed. She has been an Alameda County Master Gardener since 1999 and was on the advisory board for 14 years. She has been on the board of Alameda Backyard Growers since its inception and is currently the Treasurer.

Kristen BIO:
Kristen Smeal (she/her) volunteers and serves on the Board of Alameda Backyard Growers. In her role as the Garden Science teacher at St. Philip Neri School in Alameda, she is passionate about teaching children how to grow food and to care for the Earth and each other.