The Harvest Market at Sonoma Garden Park is open and selling fresh, organically-grown produce and olive oil again.
There is not much better than eating food that comes from the land where you live, and that’s just what we offer every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in the Straw Bale Barn at the Garden Park.
Our resident chickens provide backyard eggs, which some say are chock full of more nutrients than eggs that come from factory chickens.
Talk with Master Gardeners and while you’re there stroll around and enjoy the season’s blooms and check out what is growing that will be on our Harvest Market tables soon.
Coming up on May 8 from noon to 3 p.m. is a free Compost Workshop where you learn while doing. Our high school Enviroleader Program created space and a system to make compost from material found right in the garden. For this working workshop we need help making two piles from the collected material. You will learn the various methods of making compost and the advantages and disadvantages of some, such as adding ingredients like Bokashi or Biochar. Please register in advance at SonomaEcologyCenter.org/events.
On May 15 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. we have a workshop on how to grow and use herbs for health and healing. Learn more about it and register here.
Sonoma Garden Park, owned by the City of Sonoma and managed by Sonoma Ecology Center, is a 6.1-acre community park and working model of sustainable agriculture. There are community garden plots that are so popular there is a wait list. We host community workshops, school field trips, and student summer camps. A nursery for native plants is used for restoration and contract projects.
The property was a gift from beloved local schoolteacher and gardener Pauline Bond, who bequeathed her land in 1977 to the City of Sonoma with the agreement that it remain a public park. In 1993, Sonoma Ecology Center took over operation of the park on the city’s behalf, and began transforming the property from a bare lot to its current lush grounds of orchards, gardens and public gathering places.