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Sep 22
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Last Class of the Year – Saturday, September 29

By Blog, Community Events, Gardening Tips, News & Events, Outdoor Learning Center, Winter Vegies

Don’t miss this one!

September 29   3 – 5pm   Winter Gardens
There is as much happening in your garden over winter as there is in summer…even if you don’t plant anything. Did you know tomato horn worm grubs could be hibernating in your soil? Or that you may be promoting the growth of various wilts by composting your tomato plants? Join Nanette Heffernan in a lively discussion on how to prepare your garden for winter to ensure you have a healthy spring. We will also be discussing winter edibles that do well in Contra Costa County: Swiss Chard, Broccoli, Collard Greens…the list goes on and on. You will even take home some seedlings to plant!

Sign up here

Kale!

Aug 19
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Too early to think about winter gardens?

By Community Events, Gardening Tips, Outdoor Learning Center

Yep, still a little too early.  But it is not too early to register for the last class this year.  Sign up now for our September 29 class on Winter Gardens.


There is as much happening in your garden over winter as there is in summer…even if you don’t plant anything. Did you know tomato horn worm grubs could be hibernating in your soil? Or that you may be promoting the growth of various wilts by composting your tomato plants? Join Nanette Heffernan in a lively discussion on how to prepare your garden for winter to ensure you have a healthy spring. We will also be discussing winter edibles that do well in Contra Costa County: Swiss Chard, Broccoli, Collard Greens…the list goes on and on. You will even take home some seedlings to plant!

September 29   3 – 5pm   Winter Gardens

You can register online here.

Jul 31
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California Edibles Class – Saturday August 4

By Community Events, Locavore

Don’t miss Kim Curiel’s class this Saturday at the Garden.

August 4   3 – 5pm   California Edibles and What Native Americans Ate
Join Kim Curiel, Burton Valley’s incredibly creative and entertaining teacher, as she takes us back in time.  We’ll not only learn which native plants are edible, she’ll also teach us how to prepare and enjoy these plants that Native Americans and early settlers depended on.  Bring your curiosity and appetite!

Wild Artichoke on Lafayette Reservoir Rim Trail

Jul 31
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Garden Cook Book

By Community Events, Locavore

Diane and Fred Wilt  have volunteered to collect and organize some recipes using produce from our garden. If you wish, in the days to come please think about a recipe (simple is good) that you like which features veggies we’re hoping to harvest from our garden. We’ll be in touch soon to solicit your suggestions, and we’ll organize and compile them for our collective use.

Jul 25
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New hours!

By Community Events, Locavore, Volunteer

We have established new hours for member work days at the Garden.  By the way, if you are not a member, these are good times to come see the garden.

  • Tuesday, 3 – 8,
  • Thursday 9 – 11
  • Saturday, 8 – 2

This sunflower is closest to the gate at the Garden. Kind of a show off.

Jul 22
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Front Page!

By Open House

The Lamorinda Weekly featured one of our Garden classes on their front page this week.

Bug Bingo? Yes, Bug Bingo – also called, “How to learn your bugs and how to live with them in your garden” – was the new trendy game at the Lafayette Community Garden Saturday, July 14 facilitated by landscape designer and gardener Susanne Frey in the outdoor learning classroom across from the Lafayette Reservoir. About 15 adults and a few children came to find natural ways to manage pests and left with a better understanding of the natural processes that the savvy gardener can foster.
Once participants learned to identify the Mealy Bug, the Thrip, the Lacewing and the Katydid, the question was: Which ones are good, bad or ugly?

Read the rest of Sophie Braccini’s article here.

Jul 11
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Don’t miss Saturday’s Class!

By Community Events, Locavore, News & Events

Lafayette Community Garden and Outdoor Learning Center’s second class of the season is this Saturday.  You can sign up here.

Join Susanne Frey, landscape designer and gardener extraordinaire, as she teaches us how to recognize the insects in our gardens – those that promote health and those that wreak havoc.  We’ll discuss the benefits of both and how to minimize the negative impact of the so-called “bad guys”.  We’ll even learn a bit about insecticides.

If you have not been by the garden lately, check out the photos below.  It seems that our very first crop is coming in!

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