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Are you prepared?
In and effort to reduce the potential for wild fires, the County
Fire Prevention Division in cooperation with local fire protection districts are conducting inspections in the unincorporated county.
See Home Hardening Workshop below
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Come out and support local youth showing and selling their livestock at the
Junior Livestock Auction and see their exhibits throughout the fair - in the flower buildings and in the exhibit buildings.
Visit the
Master Gardeners in the Flower Building Annex with their annual demo garden, this one featuring
edible landscaping.
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UCCE/UC Davis Plant Sciences Field Day:
Legume Cover Crops in Orchards
July 23, 9am-Noon, Lakeport
Topics include cover crop selection, seeding, and relationship to soil fertility and health.
The meeting will be hosted by Mostin Orchards:
Registration is free and will begin at 9:00 a.m., with the program starting at 9:30 a.m. Refreshments will be served and water will available throughout the morning.
For program information, please contact Juliana Wu at jliwu@ucdavis.edu
For directions or accessibility assistance, please contact UCCE Lake County office: at 707-263-6838 or celake@ucanr.edu.
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Good Fire Alliance BBQ & Potluck
August 3, 12 pm, Spring Lake Regional Park
Come meet neighbors and others interested in cooperative burning and grazing in
Sonoma County.
People from surrounding counties or other areas are welcome too.
Please RSVP so we know how many people to anticipate and so you receive follow up information about this event.
What to bring? Sunglasses, sunscreen, a smile, and whatever salad, snack, or drink you'd like to share. Maybe a chair, too.
A more specific location and a map will be emailed to RSVPs at a later date
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Wildfire Home Hardening Workshop
August 17, 10am - 4pm, Sebastopol
Audobon Canyon Ranch is collaborating with the County, Good Fire Alliance, local fire protection districts and UCCE to put on this workshop.
Learn how to make your home resilient against wildfire during this hands-on workshop:
- Receive expert instruction on how to "harden" your home against the next wildfire.
- Take a tour of a typical home in Sonoma County's W.U.I., with all of its classic issues.
- Get hands-on experience correcting those issues.
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Become a Master Gardener!
If you love to garden, learn about horticulture, and want to share your information with others, the UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County offers you the opportunity to learn and to use your knowledge of gardening to serve the community.
The UC Master Gardener program is a volunteer organization that provides education to home gardeners. Master Gardeners of Sonoma County have a deep commitment to community service and are willing to volunteer as agents of the University of California Cooperative Extension.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 MG Training Class which will launch in January 2020 and run through May 2020.
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Events & Workshops by our Partners:
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Summer Soiree
July 28, 4pm at Five Springs Farm in Petaluma
Local food, drinks, live music, and sweeping views of the North Bay, all to help lift up the voice of sustainable agriculture, family farms and local food systems.
Information and Tickets
Innovation Challenge for Small Farm Tech Expo
Innovation Challenge
to
develop a new innovation that can help smaller-scale farms compete, survive and thrive! Proposals due by 10/31.
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Tillage & Compost in the Vineyard
August 1, Saralee's Vineyard, Windsor
Sonoma RCD and Jackson Family Wines invite growers to come learn the latest findings from their Healthy Soils Demonstration Project. This field trial, started in 2018 at Saralee's Vineyard, is looking at how tillage frequency and compost application influences soil health and productivity in a working vineyard.
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Post Wildfire Land Stewardship Workshop
August 24, 10am at ACR Bouverie Preserve
Get hands on experience on how to steward your land after a severe wildfire event.
Participants will receive expert instruction on improving the ecological health and resiliency of fire-affected land and learn how to do it themselves or how to hire contractors to do the work on their land.
- Take a tour of the Bouverie Preserve -a landscape affected by the Nuns fire- and review Bouverie's postfire Forest Management Plan.
- Get hands-on experience implementing Bouverie Preserve's Forest Management Plan.
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CA Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for projects funded by CAL FIRE
September 5, 10am at ACR Bouverie Preserve
This class will focus on CEQA processes related to CAL FIRE grant funding and private/ public agencies' legal obligations. It will cover CEQA's purpose, why it applies, basics (authority, summary, key terms, process), lead & responsible agencies, Senate Bill 901, exempt projects, environmental documents, document adequacy and archaeology. While not ideal for complete new-comers to CEQA, it may be appropriate for some. There will be a lot of detail shared and plenty of time for discussion.
Learn more and register online
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Small Flock Egg Producers Workshop
September 17, 10am at Ag Dept Conference Room
Free workshop for small scale egg producers and those interested in selling eggs by CA Dept of Food & Ag's Egg Safety & Quality Management department.
Topics include:
- Intro to Chickens
- Biosecurity
- Hands on Candling Exercise
- Poultry Disease
- Egg Quality
More information in our September news.
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