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Painting pots with Keeyla Meadows

Keeyla Meadows, artist, garden designer, and author of Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise is giving a pot painting workshop at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts in Berkeley. When: Saturday, Septemer 16, 3 p.m. Painting...

Vintagehouse Nursery in Yuba City, CA

The new proprieters of Vintagehouse Nursery, Curtis and Michael, sent me a few pics of their vintage-feel nursery. If anyone’s in the Yuba City area, you should check ’em out! Report back and let us know how you like it! Better yet, bring a digital camera...

Food banks and excess home veggies

Came across this Seattle Times article on donating your excess home-grown veggies to local food banks. Does anyone know if a program like this exists in greater Sacramento? Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we could donate our extra bounty to organizations serving...

Excuses, excuses

I want to apologize for not garden blogging much since my return from Mendo. I’ve been busy getting my teenager ready for back-to-school and trying to fit in as many bike rides as possible before the rainy season kicks in. When I said I needed to “catch up...

Are you a tomato head?

Many people are ending up on my blog lately via a quest for salsa and other delicious solutions for too many tomatoes, so I thought I’d link to this timely Sacramento Bee article by Gwen Schoen — Bee Food Writer. “It’s tomato time–...