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

Harvest Day brochure

Download the Harvest Day brochure (PDF - Coming Soon).  

Join Us!

Fair Oaks Horticulture Center

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

Where to find it

Download to print the Harvest Day map. (PDF 82KB)

2024 vendors

• Full Moon Metal Design
• Hummingbird Feeders R Us
• Miridae Mobile Nursery
• Morningsun Herb Farm
• Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society
• The Shaman’s Garden
• Fleet Feet

2024 food trucks

• Chandos
• World Fare
• Java Johnny’s
• Kona Ice

2024 education tables

• UC Master Gardeners - Ask the Master Gardeners Information Table
• 4-H Sacramento County
• Audubon Society
• California Department of Food and Agriculture
• EB Stone and Son
• Effie Yeaw Nature Center
• Fair Oaks Library
• Fair Oaks Water District
• Florin-Perkins Landscape Materials
• Green Acres Nursery and Supply
• Hunter Industries
• LeafFilter
• Miller’s Ace Hardware
• UC Master Food Preservers
• The Renaissance Society
• Sacramento Valley Urban Forests Council
• Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition
• Sacramento County Dept of Water Resources, Stormwater Quality
• Sacramento Digs Gardening
• Sacramento Perennial Plant Club
• Sacramento County Dept of Waste Management and Recycling
• Sacramento Valley Chapter of the Native Plant Society
• Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District (“Fight the Bite”)
• SavATree
• Sierra Foothills Rose Society
• SMUD
• UCCE Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
• William Walker Law Office
• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

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.)