Yolo

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.

Join us to learn about how to make kombucha, a refreshing drink made from fermenting tea. We’ll teach you how to maintain a healthy SCOBY (a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to make kombucha, and how to do a second fermentation flavored with various fruits.

There will be an open garden day March 2 from 1000 to noon. The garden is located at 16675 County Road 98B in Woodland.

Join UC Master Gardeners Janet Berman and Karen Slinkard for this free workshop on tending the edible garden. Gardening for Year-Round Meals meets regularly on the second Saturday of each month, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

Learn about the Putah Creek Watershed Native Plant Demonstration Garden. Its a place to learn about drought-resistant and pollinator-friendly native plants that you and your neighbors can use in your own yards, contributing to the health of our watershed ecosystem.

The UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo and the Yolo Library will hold its regular semimonthly Gardening Workshops in June on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. The topic is Create Your Pollinator Habitat.

Master Gardeners-Yolo workshop on Gardening For Year Round Meals meets regularly on the second Saturday of each month, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, at Grace Garden, located behind the United Methodist Church at 1620 Anderson Road, in Davis, near the back of the parking lot.

Yolo County UCCE Master Gardener Bonnie Berman will present this free workshop. Berman will provide a comprehensive overview of fruit tree care, from common pests to pruning.