Garden information galore at Harvest Day's educational tables

Quite a wealth of garden and related information will be gathered this Saturday, Aug. 3, at Harvest Day. Thirty educational tables (with shade!) will be set up on the oak-ringed field between the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center and the Fair Oaks Community Garden.

Local organizations, clubs and businesses will staff the tables, offering advice and information on topics including birds, canning and food preservation, compost, irrigation systems, native plants, landscape materials, urban trees, and many others.

Sacramento Digs Gardening will be among them, returning this year after having to skip the 2023 event. Blog co-founder/lead writer Debbie Arrington will hold down the fort most of the day, which runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Fellow co-founder Kathy Morrison Hellesen -- me! -- will be present on occasion, when not handling master gardener duties in the FOHC.)

Visit the SDG booth for free stickers, plus easy links to our many recipes and other blog posts. If you're a regular recipient of the blog newsletter, make a point of stopping by and introducing yourself -- we love to meet our subscribed readers. Debbie, of course, is a master rosarian who enjoys fielding questions about roses and other flowers in particular.

Below is the official list of educational tables expected at Harvest Day. The Sacramento County master gardeners will have the new 2025 Garden Guide and Calendar for sale, but the local businesses listed here will not be selling at Harvest Day; they will have information on their products.

-- 4-H of Sacramento County    

-- Audubon Society

-- California Dept. of Food & Agriculture

-- California Native Plant Society, Sacramento Valley Chapter

-- EB Stone & Son

-- Effie Yeaw Nature Center

-- UCCE  Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program 

-- Fair Oaks Library

-- Fair Oaks Water District

-- Florin-Perkins Landscape Materials

-- Green Acres Nursery & Supply

-- Hunter Industries

-- LeafFilter

-- Master Food Preservers of Sacramento County (recipes!)

-- Master Gardeners Gardening Guide and Calendar

-- Miller’s ACE Hardware  

-- The Renaissance Society

-- Sacramento County Dept. of Waste Management & Recycling   

-- Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition

-- Sacramento Digs Gardening

-- Sacramento Perennial Plant Club   

-- Sacramento Valley Urban Forests Council

-- Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District  (Fight the Bite!)

-- SavATree

-- Sierra Foothills Rose Society

-- SMUD

-- Dept. of Water Resources, Sacramento County   

-- William Walker Law firm   

-- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

The Fair Oaks Horticulture Center is at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks, just south of Madison Avenue. Admission and parking are free.