Transform your home with CA friendly native plants! Learn about building a healthy living soil sponge, holding rainwater on your property, selecting local native plants that minimize water use and maximize biodiversity, and controling your irrigation. The class is free, but advanced registration is required.
Collect rainwater to help protect our waterways and water sources! This FREE webinar by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MET) will discuss selecting a rainwater capture method, swale and berm tips, information about cisterns, and integrating hardscapes. Advanced registration is required.
UCCE Master Gardeners of Orange County will teach you about Orange County's butterfly population, as well as the native plants they depend on to flourish. They'll have volunteer tasks for all ages like watering, seed collection, mulching, weeding, and more! Youth attendees will be able to participate in a "hands-on" nature activity too. No registration is required for this in-person...
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Upgrade your garden while making it stormwater-safe! This webinar will cover sizing and siting a stormwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This class is free, but advanced registration is required.
Stop by the UCCE Master Gardeners of Orange County booth anytime between 10am and 4pm. You will learn how to calculate how much and how often to irrigate your various plants. There is a $5.00 entry fee to enter Sherman Gardens, but no registration is required.
This webinar will go over what you need to know about gray water. This includes: gray water as an appropriate water source, siting and sizing mulch basins, designing and implementing a laundry-to-landscape system, special considerations for plants irrigated with gray water, and maintenance/troubleshooting. This class is free, but registration is required.
If you're curious about turf or have it on your property, this is the webinar for you. Learn about removing turf without chemicals, replacing turf with climate-appropriate plants, maintaining turf organically, simple and resilient lawn care strategies, and managing weeds, pests, and disease. This class is free, but advanced registration is required.
This session will discuss how all water systems are connected, natural water sources (both ground water and surface water), technology and water (recycling, reclamation, stormwater retention, and desalination), and our role in helping our water systems. This class is free, but advanced registration is required.
Discover the best methods for passive and active rainwater collection! Learn about selecting a rainwater capture method, swale and berm tips, information about cisterns, and integrating hardscapes. This class is free, but advanced registration is required.
CA friendly native plants are breathtaking and stormwater-safe! This webinar will discuss building a healthy living soil sponge, holding rainwater on your property, selecting local native plants that minimize water use and maximize biodiversity, and controling your irrigation. The class is free, but advanced registration is required.
Having a drought tolerant garden is critical to protecting our water resources. This presentation will show you the best drought tolerant plants, and how to plant, water, and maintain them so they can thrive in your garden. This class is free, but advanced registration is required.