MC Gives! 2024 Urban Food Forests

Donate Today!  Help support our volunteer-powered, Miyawaki-inspired “food forest” project!  Your donation—big or small—will directly fund tree planting, soil improvement, and ongoing care, ensuring these micro forests thrive for generations. Gifts made through Monterey County Gives! through midnight December 31, 2024 will be matched.

Help us make a lasting impact!

Register Now for Fall 2024 Gardening Workshops

Saturday Morning Gardening Workshop Series at the Monterey Adult School.  Register NOW for workshops at the Seaside campus!

First quarter Classes begin August 31, 2024.

REGISTER TODAY!

  • Aug 31: Fall/Winter Succession Crops
  • Sept 14: Preparing for Fall/Winter Gardening & Garden to Kitchen Harvest Share
  • Sept 28: Winter Transplanting & Cover Crops
  • Oct 19: Healthy Plants: Disease Identification & Pest Control
  • Nov 2: Native Plants & Pollinators
  • Nov 16: Winter Garden and Spring Prep: Fruit Tree Pruning & Dormant Care

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Check out our Events and Volunteer Opportunities

Visit our Calendar of Events for year-round local actions and volunteer opportunities. Volunteers are invited to help out in any number of activities around Monterey County.

Citizens for Sustainable Marina (C4SM) holds weekly community gardening and cleanup events and outings to sweep out invasive French Broom

Volunteers with Sustainable Del Rey Oaks meet the second Saturday of each month from 10 am to 12 pm at the Butterfly Garden (next to the Del Rey Oaks Garden Center and the tennis courts) to help tend the pollinator garden and beautify the garden.

Sustainable Seaside partners with Friends of Seaside Parks (FOSPA) each Saturday morning to create and maintain pollinator gardens in neighborhood parks in Seaside.

Sustainable Pacific Grove holds Trash Pickup events in Pacific Grove.

Find details about these and other events on the Event Calendar.