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Harvest Day

Harvest Day 2025

Mark your calendar for this year!

Harvest Day 2025!  FREE!
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Fair Oaks Horticulture Center
Inspired by Chuck Ingels
11549 Fair Oaks Boulevard
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
Map and directions

Visit our HD Resources for presentation handouts.

2025 Business Sponsors

Thank you to the many businesses that help make Harvest Day 2025 a huge success through their generous support.

2025 Keynote Speakers in the Speakers Tent

8:30 - 9:15 AM
Rose Loveall-Sale and Karey Windbiel-Rojas
Looking to the Future: Plant Choice for a Changing Climate

9:45 - 10:30 AM
Katie Low
Community Wildfire Preparedness Fundamentals

11:00 - 11:45 AM
Quentyn Young
Growing Avocados and Subtropical Fruit Trees in the Sacramento Area

See our speaker photos/biographies. New! A sign language interpreter will be present for keynote talks!

 

2025 20-minute "Mini" talks throughout the day

8:45 - 9:15 AM

Pruning Cane Berries

Creative Ideas for Getting Outside

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Pruning Fruit Trees in Summer

Homegrown Strawberries: From the Yard to the Table

10:15 - 10:45 AM

The World in Your Herb Garden - Culinary Delights

Rot & Roll: The Dirt on Composting

11:00 - 11:30 AM

Scents and Sensibility: Growing Fragrant Pelargoniums

Worm Composting

Noon - 12:30 PM

Groundcovers: Colorful and Functional Alternatives to Lawn

 

As always, service dogs only are allowed at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center events. Thank you.

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Fair Oaks Horticulture Center

Map and directions:
11549 Fair Oaks Boulevard
Fair Oaks, CA 95628

Download to print the Harvest Day map. (PDF)

Harvest Day Locations

 

2025 food trucks

  • Chando's Tacos
  • World Fare Catering
  • Trailer Perk Coffee
  • River City Snowie Shaved Ice

2025 vendors

  • Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society
  • Fleet Feet
  • Full Moon Metal Design
  • Hummingbird Feeders R Us
  • Miridae Mobile Nursery
  • Morningsun Herb Farm
  • Wild Birds & Gardens
  • Stones by Laurie
  • Il Fiorello Olive Oil Company
  • Bruce Fairman Pottery

2025 education tables

  • 4-H Sacramento County
  • Audubon Society
  • Brodeur Landscapes
  • California Department of Food and Ag
  • The Davey Tree Expert Co.
  • EB Stone & Son
  • Effie Yeaw Nature Center
  • El Dorado 8
  • Fair Oaks Water District
  • Florin Perkins Landscape Materials
  • FOLFLAN (Friends of Folsom Lake and Natoma)
  • Green Acres Nursery and Supply
  • Kellog Garden Products
  • LeafFilter Gutter Protection
  • Sacramento Master Gardeners Gardening Guide and Calendar
  • Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition
  • Sacramento County Dept. of Waste Management and Recycling
  • Sacramento County Dept. of Water Resources, Stormwater Quality
  • Sacramento Perennial Plant Club
  • Sacramento River Valley Garden Clubs
  • Sacramento Valley Chapter, California Native Plant Society
  • Sacramento Valley Urban Forests Council
  • Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito Vector Control District
  • Sierra Foothills Rose Society
  • SMUD
  • Solidaritus Health, Inc.
  • The Renaissance Society
  • UC Master Food Preservers
  • William Walker Law Office
  • Xerces Society for Invertebrate Preservation

More...

Master Gardener sales

2026 Gardening Guide and Calendar, Gardening: Basics and Beyond sales begin on Harvest Day. We accept cash, check, and new this year--credit card!

Watch Past Harvest Day videos

If you missed our 2020 and 2021 virtual
events, view videos and recordings on our
YouTube Channel!

 

Harvest Day 2019 (2:23 min.)

Harvest Day 2018 (1:49 min.)

Harvest Day 2017 (1:52 min.)

Harvest Day 2016 (1:03 min.)

Harvest Day 2015 (1:00 min.)

Harvest Day 2014 (2:09 min.)

Master Gardener Program Coordinator Judy McClure talks about Harvest Day 2013. (0.46 min.)

Master Gardener Tracy Lesperance describes the new things Harvest Day 2013 visitors saw. (2:11 min.)