Virtual Class
WaterSmart Foundation: Healthy Soil, Happy Landscape
Join us for this FREE WaterSmart landscaping webinar to learn how to make your yard beautiful and WaterSmart. Learn how to create a healthy, living soil to nourish your plants yield a bountiful, beautiful, pest- and drought-resistant garden and landscape. Healthy soil is the foundation of every WaterSmart landscape. To learn more about what Steve... Read more »
WaterSmart Irrigation: The Soil and Water Relationship
Join us for this FREE WaterSmart landscaping webinar to learn how to make your yard beautiful and WaterSmart. You've learned about healthy soil. The next step for a WaterSmart landscape is to unite efficient irrigation strategies with your soil type. Water moves and acts differently depending on the soil. Learn how to use low-flow drip... Read more »
WaterSmart Show Stoppers: Meet the Plants
Join us for this FREE WaterSmart landscaping webinar to learn how to make your yard beautiful and WaterSmart. Now that you have a great support team (soil and efficient irrigation) working for your landscape, you can choose plants that support your yard's own ecosystems! Plants that require less water and less maintenance to thrive; plants... Read more »
Rachio Controller and Schedule Workshop
A Rachio Controller saves you time and water, join us to learn how it works and how to use the features. This workshop event is sponsored by the Regional Water Authority and local water suppliers in the Sacramento region. For more information and to register go to the Eventbrite page. The Rachio Controllers have many... Read more »
Act Local: Planting for Success
Provide landscape professionals with an understanding of, and techniques for, appropriate plant and tree selection and care Outline the importance of site evaluation and analysis for long-term plant health Demonstrate best practices for plant and tree selection and maintenance
Using Natural Systems as a Model for Enhancing Biodiversity
Provide landscape professionals with an understanding of how landscapes can mirror natural systems to reduce waste and create habitat Outline the importance of biodiversity and creating habitat Discuss how to use native plant communities and natural cycles as models for built landscapes Present techniques for reducing waste in the built landscape
Water Conservation & Irrigation in the Urban Landscape
Online Workshop Session: Provides landscape professionals with an understanding of how to evaluate and design an efficient irrigation system. Demonstrates different systems and equipment options Reviews MWELO and its applications Introduces alternative water sources and appropriate applications
Integrated Pest Management in the Urban Landscape
Reviews how pest management practices impact the watershed and community. Introduces relevant IPM regulations and guidelines for controlling pests. Presents IPM approaches for addressing a variety of locally relevant pest issues.
Resilient Regenerative Firescaping Qualification Training (FQT)
The FQT Course presents ReScape 8 Principles, technical details, and firescaping compliance with local and state ordinances and regulations. A ReScape 8 Principles approach to firescaping protects properties and landscapes and considers the best practices to mitigate climate change and create beauty with carbon landscaping, green infrastructure, waste plant debris prevention and decrease in landfill... Read more »
Maintenance Qualification Program
Based on ReScape’s 8 Principles, this training provides landscape maintenance professionals with practical tools to manage healthy landscapes, protect local watersheds, and address our changing climate. Learn about regenerative landscape practices from leading experts in soil health, irrigation, plant care, integrated pest management, and more. The Maintenance Qualification Training is offered with tuition ranging from $575 - $625.... Read more »