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A panel of volunteers specializing in freezing, dehydrating, canning and food safety will be available to answer your questions and share their tips so you can safely and successfully preserve food at home.

A panel of volunteers specializing in freezing, dehydrating, canning and food safety will be available to answer your questions and share their tips so you can safely and successfully preserve food at home.

Learn how to safely prepare, freeze, and dehydrate fresh strawberries to enjoy their sweet flavor long after the season ends. This session will cover best practices for handling and storing berries to preserve quality and reduce waste. 

A panel of volunteers specializing in freezing, dehydrating, canning and food safety will be available to answer your questions and share their tips so you can safely and successfully preserve food at home.

Presented by UC Master Gardener Anne Sutherland. Contact Justin Rae for more information: justine.rea@library.cccounty.

Presented by UC Master Gardeners Denece Dodson and Sheila Weston. Contact Dean Jones for more information: dean.jones@library.cccounty.

Ask a Master Gardener table from 9 am to Noon Speaker from 10 am to 11:30 am: Keith Silva, UC Master Gardener Tool Time for Pruning in Your Garden You have invested a lot in your home garden tools.

Ask a Master Gardener table from 9 am to Noon Speaker from 10 am to 11:30 am: Janet Miller, UC Master Gardener Favorite Summer Veggie Varieties Join UC Master Gardener Janet Miller as she takes us through some of the best growing, most delicious edibles to grow in your garden this year.

Come and get your gardening questions answered while you shop for local produce! The Diablo Valley Farmers' Market (in the Kaiser Permanente parking lot, within the Shadelands Business Park, Walnut Creek) will have UC Master Gardeners available to the public from 9 am to 1 pm every other Saturday th...

Come and get your gardening questions answered while you shop for local produce! The San Ramon Farmers Market will have UC Master Gardeners available to the public from 9 am to 1 pm every second and fourth Saturday from May through October. Advice to Grow By...