Fall and Winter in Sonoma County

Master Gardener plant inspired décor and gifts at the Sebastopol Holiday Art, Craft Fair and Maker’s Market

Join the UC Master Gardeners for a Holiday Craft Fair 2024

Join us December 8th, 2024 at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts’ Holiday Art and Maker’s Market. Choose from a variety of plant inspired holiday decorations and gifts crafted by our own UC Sonoma County Master Gardeners. Browse our wreaths, ornaments, succulent arrangements and more.

Holiday Art & Makers Market
December 8, 2024
11AM to 4PM
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
282 S. High Street
Sebastopol, CA

Children’s Jamboree and Fall Festival 2024

UC Master Gardeners of Sonoma County Fall Children's Jamboree and Festival at Los Guilicos Demonstration Garden

October 20 was a picture-perfect day for Jam-Fest 2024 — a free public event hosted by the UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County. More than 230 people (adults and children) came to the Los Guilicos Demonstration and Teaching Garden to enjoy fun, interactive activities and presentations and a pop-up succulent sale. We appreciate the dedication and enthusiasm of the volunteers and partner organizations who helped make Jam-Fest 2024 a success!

For more information about the Los Guilicos Demonstration and Teaching Garden, click here

School Field Trip Waitlist Available

Teachers and school administrators: Our fall 2024 and spring 2025 school field trips are booked but you can sign up for our waitlist. If you’d like to place your class (1st, 2nd 4th and 5th grades) on a waitlist for fall 2025 / spring 2026 or be notified if there’s a cancellation, please complete and submit this form. Field trips and bus transportation are free. For information about our field trip program, click here.

Food Gardening Year-Round

Whether you are a beginner or experienced food gardener, or anywhere in between, we invite you to visit our food gardening home page where we offer an array of topics. You’ll find everything you need to know to grow a successful and sustainable food garden.

See our Monthly Tips for food gardening tasks you can do each month to make your garden, healthy, beautiful and productive.

Grow food sustainably in your garden year-round while building the health of your garden environment using sustainable gardening principles. We emphasize using practices that will not compromise future conditions of the environment and we break down the practical implementation of sustainability in our food gardens into categories using these basic principles.

A food garden begins with good soil
The right plants for your food garden are those vegetable and fruit crops that you want to eat and that can grow successfully in your microclimate
Include herbs and flowers as companion plants to encourage beneficial insects
Sustainable pest management approaches are those that are the least toxic
Water conservation