Sharpen your fangs, tighten those corsets and don your most dapper attire as you prepare to immerse yourself in the revelry of Shannon McCabe’s 16th Annual…
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Didn’t score tickets to the Tower Bridge Dinner? No problem; you can still get into the farm-to-fork spirit at a big communal gathering of food…
City implements SB1383 By Hannah Ross Brooks Truitt Community Garden — a pearlescent oyster shell sits atop a softly steaming pile of mulch next to…
BeWaterSmart offers handy device to have during drought or any time During the driest year in Sacramento history, soil is getting rock hard, too —…
A fierce early spring means ‘normal’ snow pack weakens, mosquitoes arrive with dazzling flowers That February sun sure feels good! As most of the…
Warm and dry; that’s our current weather outlook, and it has rain watchers worried. Can we complain about near-perfect December weather? Yes, if it means…
Orange Sulphurs invade city from Yolo County fields “Where did all these yellow butterflies come from?” That’s been a common question this week in Sacramento’s…
Second rare corpse flower blooms in Curtis Park Is Sacramento smelling more like Sumatra? For the second time this summer, the fragrance of one particularly…
Commercial customers can get up to $100,000 for taking their property in a new direction This could be a good time to downsize the lawn….
This month will be a trial by heat for many Sacramento transplants. That goes for tomato seedlings as well as newcomers. So far, Sacramento has…
Nature doesn’t color inside the lines. What once looked like carefully crafted blocks yielded a crazy quilt of calico colors. Spring (and a little irrigation)…
A local community with deep agricultural roots is reconnecting with its gardening instincts. Saturday, April 17, the Orangevale Grange will unveil its new CommUNITY garden…
A Santa Rosa-based artist creates an inspirational flower bed in Sacramento’s Sojourner Truth Park This “quilt” was sown, not sewn. Threaded with double meanings, it’s…
Ray Tretheway retires after 30 years as executive director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation For nearly four decades, Ray Tretheway has been as strong and…
Green Acres is growing with a new nursery in Citrus Heights and acquiring Eisley Nursery in Auburn Gardening is a booming business—again—as more people discovered…
On Wednesday, the Sacramento Preservation Commission will consider removing the rose garden. Many rose bushes have already disappeared. Sacramento’s beloved Historic Rose Garden may soon…
Extreme heat and wildfire smoke kill tomatoes and zucchini Record heat and falling ash—what’s a pandemic gardener to do? Many Sacramentans got seriously into food…