Get your hands dirty for a good cause—volunteer in the native plant garden and help pollinators thrive. Snacks provided! Help the Laguna de Santa Rosa native plant garden flourish while connecting with community and nature. Volunteers play a vital role in keeping the Laguna Environmental Center beautiful and thriving. Typical tasks include planting, pruning, weeding, and spreading wood chips—there’s always something rewarding to do! The diverse landscape features native wildflowers, grasses, sedges, forbs, and trees, along with special highlights like a living willow tunnel in the Children’s Playscape, a scenic bridge over a swale, a tranquil pond, and an observation…

Do you have a lamp, small appliance, textile, or bike in need of repair? Bring it to the Repair Fair! Volunteers and specialized repair professionals will be on-hand to repair* your items. Please stay with your item while it’s being fixed, so you can learn tips for future maintenance, how to shop for repairable goods, and even how to repair things yourself! If you’d like to bring an item to repair, please register the item here. (Pre-registering allows them to prepare for your item!) This event will also feature a Halloween Costume & Decor Swap! Spooky Season is around the corner – bring…

Discover native plants, explore the grounds, and experience art, community, and conservation at the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation annual fall open house! Join for a festive, free autumn celebration at the Laguna Environmental Center. Take a guided walk through the native plant demonstration garden at 11:00am or 12:00pm, explore the beautiful grounds, and visit Spirit of My Homeland, a new exhibit in Heron Hall featuring the work of artist Gloria Armstrong. The exhibit celebrates cultural connection, family, and place through artwork rooted in lived experience and local landscapes. As part of the day’s festivities, the Milo Baker Chapter of the…

Come Grow, Learn, Play, and Shop! This fun, free event for children and adults ​will be held at Nokhnoma Teaching and Demonstration Garden* in Santa Rosa. Activities for children will include items they can make and take home such as corn husk dolls, sun catchers, gratitude banners, seed pots, garden art rocks, and more! Marketplace will feature an assortment of 4-inch and 1-gallon succulents, succulent containers, succulent topped pumpkins in assorted sizes, small and medium wreaths crafted with flora, cones and/or succulents, oyster shell succulents and decoupage oyster shell ornaments, beaded light catchers, and gardening books. All proceeds benefit the UC…

Trick-or-Treatment: Mysteries of the Laguna Treatment Plant Saturday, October 17, 2026 | 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Laguna Treatment Plant | 4300 Llano Road, Santa Rosa Free Halloween Open House This Halloween, Santa Rosa Water is opening the doors (creaky noise) to the Laguna Treatment Plant for Trick-or-Treatment: Mysteries of the Laguna Treatment Plant, a free and spooky open house where the community can get a behind-the-scenes look at how wastewater is treated and learn more about the people, science and equipment that help keep our community healthy and our waterways clean and protected. Family-friendly costumes are encouraged. Join for…

Come to Fall for Natives in the beautiful habitat garden! Learn to identify and appreciate native plants and the animals that eat, shelter, and reproduce in them. UC Master Gardeners will provide advice and support to help you learn how to start and grow native habitat at home, support native bees and honeybees, promote beneficial insects, plant under oaks, and kick-start your first native plant efforts. Participants of this free program will be gifted with a native plant while supplies last!

Do you have a lamp, small appliance, textile, or bike in need of repair? Bring it to the Repair Fair! Volunteers and specialized repair professionals will be on-hand to repair* your items. Please stay with your item while it’s being fixed, so you can learn tips for future maintenance, how to shop for repairable goods, and even how to repair things yourself! If you’d like to bring an item to repair, please register the item here. (Pre-registering allows them to prepare for your item!) This event will also include a Clothing Swap! Bring clothing and accessories to share and take home something new-to-you.…

Fall is the perfect time of year to plan and implement the addition of native plants to a Sonoma County garden. A garden with California natives will increase the biodiversity in your garden space, and support local ecosystems most efficiently. This is best accomplished with additional garden maintenance considerations as well. Tips for plant selection and care will also be discussed.

This hands-on workshop will provide resources for best practices and practical financial strategies to save money. Meet local agencies providing efficiency and value-creation resources including workforce incentives, utilities, water, and trash service to improve your bottom line. Special guests include PG&E, Sonoma Clean Power, various local Chambers of Commerce, Sonoma County Resource Recovery, Joblink, and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate within The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development! Schedule: English session 10am-11am Resource fair 11am-12pm Spanish session 12pm-1pm

Join the Garden Steward Program – Volunteer with Daily Acts! Looking for a hands-on way to support Petaluma’s community gardens? Join Daily Acts for their Garden Steward Volunteer Days, where they provide ongoing care for local demonstration gardens while creating meaningful opportunities for community involvement and connection. 🌿 What to Expect These are casual, small-group workdays where seasonal garden needs are tackled. Tasks may include: ✔️ Mulching, weeding, planting ✔️ Pruning ✔️ Irrigation fixes & garden assessments For more information contact emily@dailyacts.org

Program: In this presentation, you will learn why lawns are not eco-friendly, watch a short video that shows the best method to easily eliminate one, and discover how to decide the best use for the space. Discuss the latest in walkable green plants, plus a host of other possibilities that will broaden your definition of “lawn alternative” as UC Master Gardeners answer these questions: Why replace your lawn? Three methods for lawn removal. What do you put where your lawn was? Speaker: Marie Narlock has been a UC Marin Master Gardener since 2004. She studied landscape design through the UC…

Program: A seed and plant exchange where library patrons can get seedlings and seeds to plant, information on planting wildflower seeds and other pollinator seeds, and other planting information from Marin Master Gardeners. Venue: Civic Center Library, Room 427 Cost: Free