Embrace your green thumb at high-elevation garden festivals

Melissa Guthrie, Master Gardeners

Slow Food Lake Tahoe hosts free community Grow Your Own Garden festivals with high-elevation seedling sales, hands-on demonstrations, exhibits, vendors and garden tours. Festivals will be held in Tahoe City, Truckee and South Lake Tahoe. Visit the website to register or to purchase seedlings in advance. Participants may pick them up at the festival.

Read Priya Hutner’s article “High-elevation gardening” for tips on gardening in the Sierra at TheTahoeWeekly.com/eat. | slowfoodlaketahoe.org

Garden festivals
June 2 | 3-7 p.m. | UC Davis TERC Tahoe City Field Station
June 3 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Slow Food Lake Tahoe Gardens, Truckee
June 10 | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Tallac Historic Site, South Lake Tahoe