Harvest Day 2024
We hope you enjoyed Harvest Day Saturday, August 3, 2024 Fair Oaks Horticulture Center |
2024 Business Sponsors
Thank you to the many businesses that help make Harvest Day 2024
a huge success through their generous support.
2024 Keynote Speakers
See our speaker photos/biographies
New! A sign language interpreter
will be present for keynote talks!
In the Speakers Tent:
8:30 - 9:15 AM
Kevin Marini
Community Education Specialist:
Home Horticulture and Defensible Space
UCCE Placer and Nevada Counties
Nurturing Soils and Bagged Mixes
for Better Plants
9:45 - 10:30 AM
Ed Laivo
Container Grown Fruit Trees:
Pros and Cons
11:00 - 11:45 AM
Greg Gayton
Marketing and Community Outreach
Green Acres Nursery and Supply
Plants that Grow Well in Zone 9B
30-minute "Mini" talks
throughout the day
8:45 AM
Tips for Successful Grape Growing
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Beyond Basil: Kitchen Herbs
Lower Arbor
9:30 AM
Why and How to Press Plants
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Cane Berry Pruning
Lower Arbor
10:15 AM
Wonderful World of Succuents
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Controlling Codling Moths
Lower Arbor
11:00 AM
Grapevine Propagation
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Espalier Trees
Lower Arbor
12:00 Noon
Composting with Worms
Kiwi/Grape Arbor
Amending Soil pH for Blueberries
Lower Arbor
Find all the speaker topics/locations (pdf)
As always, service dogs only are allowed at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center events. Thank you. |
2024 vendors
- Full Moon Metal Design
- Hummingbird Feeders R Us
- Miridae Mobile Nursery
- Morningsun Herb Farm
- Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society
- The Shaman’s Garden
- Fleet Feet
2024 food trucks
- Chandos
- World Fare
- Java Johnny’s
- Kona Ice
2024 education tables
- UC Master Gardeners - Ask the Master Gardeners Information Table
- 4-H Sacramento County
- Audubon Society
- California Department of Food and Agriculture
- EB Stone and Son
- Effie Yeaw Nature Center
- Fair Oaks Library
- Fair Oaks Water District
- Florin-Perkins Landscape Materials
- Green Acres Nursery and Supply
- Hunter Industries
- LeafFilter
- Miller’s Ace Hardware
- UC Master Food Preservers
- The Renaissance Society
- Sacramento Valley Urban Forests Council
- Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition
- Sacramento County Dept of Water Resources, Stormwater Quality
- Sacramento Digs Gardening
- Sacramento Perennial Plant Club
- Sacramento County Dept of Waste Management and Recycling
- Sacramento Valley Chapter of the Native Plant Society
- Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District (“Fight the Bite”)
- SavATree
- Sierra Foothills Rose Society
- SMUD
- UCCE Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
- William Walker Law Office
- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
More...
Master Gardener sales
2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar, Passionate about Gardening sales begin on Harvest Day. We accept cash, check, and new this year--credit card!
Watch Past Harvest Day videos
If you missed our 2020 and 2021 virtual
events, view videos and recordings on our
YouTube Channel!
Harvest Day 2019 (2:23 min.)
Harvest Day 2018 (1:49 min.)
Harvest Day 2017 (1:52 min.)
Harvest Day 2016 (1:03 min.)
Harvest Day 2015 (1:00 min.)
Harvest Day 2014 (2:09 min.)
Master Gardener Program Coordinator Judy McClure talks about Harvest Day 2013. (0.46 min.)
Master Gardener Tracy Lesperance describes the new things Harvest Day 2013 visitors saw. (2:11 min.)