January 17th, 2017: from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will speaking on soil health and the soil food web as part of the Green Gardener at Home 10 week gardening class (class begins Jan. 10) at the Roseville Utility Exploration Center, 1501 Pleasant Grove Blvd. Roseville. This garden series is for rookie to experienced home gardeners. The series will teach you how to have a healthy, beautiful, water-wise garden and landscape. To register call 916-746-1550.

January 24th, 2017: from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will speaking on soil management, fertilization and turf care as part of the Green Gardener at Home 10 week gardening class (class begins Jan. 10) at the Roseville Utility Exploration Center, 1501 Pleasant Grove Blvd. Roseville. This garden series is for rookie to experienced home gardeners. The series will teach you how to have a healthy, beautiful, water-wise garden and landscape. To register call 916-746-1550.

January 25th, 2017: from 6:30 pm to 8:45 pm:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will speaking on soil health and the soil food web as part of the 10 week River-Friendly Green Gardener Professional Training Program (class begins Jan. 18) at the Sacramento Tree Foundation, 191 Lathrop Way, Sacramento. This garden series is for all horticultural professionals. The series will teach you how to design, install and maintain a healthy, beautiful, water-wise garden and landscape. To register go to the  EcoLandscape California website or call 916-382-2109.

January 26th, 2017: from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will making his nationally renowned presentation, “Soil: Not Just A Dirty Word, Exploring the Mysteries of Managing Soil Biology” to the Sun City Lincoln Hills Garden Group at 1167 Sun City Blvd Roseville in Kilaga Springs Lodge. The filthy subject matter will range from informative to humorous and of course a little romance will be included. Steve will even have an audience participation sign along, and those are always fun! He may even bring my pets in a crate. This is for area residents only and for more information call 916.408-3895.

January 29th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from  Living Resources Company   will be a guest on Farmer Fred'sgarden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Organic Horticulture in the fall garden. We had so much fun last Sunday Fred invited me back. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's gardenradio talk shows webpage.

February 1st, 2017: from 6:30 pm to 8:45 pm:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will speaking on soil management, fertilizer and turf care as part of the 10 week River-Friendly Green Gardener Professional Training Program (class begins Jan. 18) at the Sacramento Tree Foundation, 191 Lathrop Way, Sacramento. This garden series is for all horticultural professionals. The series will teach you how to design, install and maintain a healthy, beautiful, water-wise garden and landscape. To register go to the EcoLandscape California website or call 916-382-2109.

February 11th, 2016: from 7:30 am to 5 pm:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a making two presentations at the west coasts preeminent ecological horticultural event, EcoLandscape California’s 2017 Conference & Trade Show Information and Inspiration for Landscape Professionals. The event will be held at the Robert J. Cabral Agricultural Center, 2101 E. Earhart Ave., Stockton California. Steve’s first presentation, Develop A Passion For Soil To Sow The Seeds Of Urban Ecological Regeneration will cover how proper management of the soil food web will generate urban ecological restoration. His second presentation, Proactive, Water-Friendly (PWF) Integrated Pest Management (IPM): The Why, Not The What will discuss pest management techniques that prevent pest damage and when necessary some organic/less-toxic options if pests become a problem. This is an event horticultural professionals will not want to miss with workshops covering cutting edge tools and techniques on the subjects of gray water, sustainable hardscapes, sustainable landscape plant availability, water-wise irrigation tools and techniques, selecting and finding the best plants, BMP’s for tree care and much more. There will also be an off site social hour following the event.

September 18th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Organic Horticulture in the fall garden. We had so much fun last Sunday Fred invited me back. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

September 4th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Organic Horticulture in the fall garden. We had so much fun last Sunday Fred invited me back. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

August 28th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Organic Horticulture in the fall garden. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

 

September 18th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Organic Horticulture in the fall garden. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

August 6, 2016: from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm:
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday... it's Harvest Day at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center,
11549 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. Sacramento's best horticultural event. If you grow a garden, landscape or houseplants, if you walk on a lawn, smell flowers, enjoy wildlife or have any questions about growing concerns you must attend this event. Every horticultural expert within 50 miles will be there to answer your gardening questions. If you don't have questions listen to other folks questions and you will soon realize that you wanted to know the answer to that too. And you will be able to find an expert at this event that can answer any growing question. Of course that includes Sacramento's Organic Advocate (that's me if ya didn't know) who will be at the "Living Resources Company" booth/table under one of the oak trees. Be sure to stop buy. I will be giving away some cool freebies besides answering questions about organic pest management, soils and soil biology, and more. Hope to see you there!

September 9, 2016: 11:00 am:

Sacramento's Organic Advocate, Steven Zien will be taking his dirty road show up the hill to Colfax. "Soil: Not Just a Dirty Word" Steve's always popular presentation will be part of the Colfax Garden Club's monthly meeting at the Sierra Vista Community Club, 55 School Street, in beautiful Colfax, California.Attend and you will discover the many benefits of a healthy Soil Food Web and how you can mange it to create healthy drought and pest resistant plants! Should be fun! Come join in and discover all the dirt about health soil. This presentation is rated E for entertaining and educational and is for everybody who likes plants.

August 6, 2016: from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm:
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday... it's Harvest Day at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center,
11549 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. Sacramento's best horticultural event. If you grow a garden, landscape or houseplants, if you walk on a lawn, smell flowers, enjoy wildlife or have any questions about growing concerns you must attend this event. Every horticultural expert within 50 miles will be there to answer your gardening questions. If you don't have questions listen to other folks questions and you will soon realize that you wanted to know the answer to that too. And you will be able to find an expert at this event that can answer any growing question. Of course that includes Sacramento's Organic Advocate (that's me if ya didn't know) who will be at the "Living Resources Company" booth/table under one of the oak trees. Be sure to stop buy. I will be giving away some cool freebies besides answering questions about organic pest management, soils and soil biology, and more. Hope to see you there!

September 9, 2016: 11 am:

Sacramento's Organic Advocate, Steven Zien will be taking his dirty road show up the hill to Colfax. "Soil: Not Just a Dirty Word" Steve's always popular presentation will be part of the Colfax Garden Club's monthly meeting at the Sierra Vista Community Club, 55 School Street, in beautiful Colfax, California.Attend and you will discover the many benefits of a healthy Soil Food Web and how you can mange it to create healthy drought and pest resistant plants! Should be fun! Come join in and discover all the dirt about health soil. This presentation is rated E for entertaining and educational and is for everybody who likes plants.

June 4, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate  Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Emigh Hardware 3555 El Camino Ave, Sacramento California. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening. Learn safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! Maybe you will take home that flame weeder you may have seen Nursery Manager Randy demonstrate on Good Day Sacramento.

June 5th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Healthy Soil Produces Healthy Plants. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

    

June 9th, 2016: 7:30 pm:

Sacramento's Organic Advocate, Steven Zien will be the guest speaker at the Sacramento Rose Society's June 9th meeting at the Shepard Garden and Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816. Steve will be making his ever popular "Soil: Not Just a Dirty Word" program. Discover the many benefits of a healthy Soil Food Web and how you can mange it to create healthy drought and pest resistant plants! Should be fun! Come join in and discover all the dirt about health soil. This presentation is rated E for entertaining and educational and is for everybody who likes plants.

June 11th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien from Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at the Auburn Home Depot 11755 Willow Creek Dr., Auburn, California. Learn from Steve what garden practices and products you can use to prevent pests and manage them if they happen to start causing a problem using least-toxic and organic horticultural products and techniques, that are available for purchase at The Home Depot.

May 7, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate  Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Emigh Hardware 3555 El Camino Ave, Sacramento California. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening. Learn safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! Maybe you will take home that flame weeder you may have seen Nursery Manager Randy demonstrate on Good Day Sacramento.

May 14th, 2016: from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm:

Sacramento's Organic Advocate  Steven Zien with Living Resources Company will be staffing one of many "Ask the Expert" booths at Roseville's Greener Gardens Tour and DIY Expo  that begins at Mahany Park, 1501 Pleasant Grove Blvd, Roseville, California. You won't want to miss Steve's latest presentation about the 5 P's "Pests, Pollinators, Pesticides, Pets, and Pollution in the Watershed-Wise Landscape" at 9:30 am. Then head out on a self-guided tour of River-Friendly Landscapes. To end the day stop back to the DIY Expo and ask Steve and the other experts to answer all those questions generated while on the home tour.

May 15th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien from Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at the Elk Grove Home Depot 9150 W. Stockton Blvd, Sacramento California. Learn from Steve what garden practices and products you can use to prevent pests and manage them if they happen to start causing a problem using least-toxic and organic horticultural products and techniques, many available for purchase at The Home Depot.

May 21st, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate  Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Green Acres Nursery and Supply Elk Grove location, 9220 E. Stockton Blvd. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening. Discover safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! 

May 22nd, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien from Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at the Florin Road Home Depot 4641 Florin Road, Sacramento California. Learn from Steve what garden practices and products you can use to prevent pests and manage them if they happen to start causing a problem using least-toxic and organic horticultural products and techniques, many available for purchase at The Home Depot.

May 28th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Talini's Nursery, 5601 Folsom Blvd., Sacramento. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening. Learn safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! 

June 4th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate  Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Emigh Hardware 3555 El Camino Ave, Sacramento California. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening. Learn safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! Maybe you will take home that flame weeder you may have seen Nursery Manager Randy demonstrate on Good Day Sacramento.

June 5th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Summer chores in the organic garden. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

June 11, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien from Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at the Auburn Home Depot 11755 Willow Creek Drive, Auburn California. Learn from Steve what garden practices and products you can use to prevent pests and manage them if they happen to start causing a problem using least-toxic and organic horticultural products and techniques, many available for purchase at The Home Depot.

March 27th, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Winter in the organic garden. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Find out if Fred or Steve finds the most eggs or if they get hit in the face with them. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

April 2nd, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien from Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at the Meadowview Home Depot 1461 Meadowview Road, Sacramento California. Learn from Steve what garden practices and products you can use to prevent pests and manage them if they happen to start causing a problem using least-toxic and organic horticultural products and techniques, many available for purchase at The Home Depot.

April 3rd, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate Steven Zien from Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at the Antelope Orchard Supply Hardware, 4249 Elverta Rd., Antelope, California. Learn from Steve what garden practices and products you can use to prevent pests and manage them if they happen to start causing a problem using least-toxic and organic horticultural products and techniques, many available for purchase at Orchard Supply Hardware.

April 9th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate  Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Emigh Hardware 3555 El Camino Ave, Sacramento California. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening and safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! Maybe you will take home that flame weeder you didn't get for the holidays. 

April 10th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:

Integrated Pest Management Advocate  Steven Zien with Our Water Our World will have an educational booth at Green Acres Nursery and Supply Sacramento location, 8501 Jackson Rd. at the corner of Florin Perkins. Get your pest and garden problems solved by an expert in organic gardening and safe methods of managing pests of the garden and home and go home with what you need to do the job right! Maybe you will take home that flame weeder you didn't get for the holidays.

April 16th, 2016: from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm:

Sacramento's Organic Advocate  Steven Zien with Living Resources Company will be staffing the EcoLandscape California booth at Roseville's Celebrate the Earth event at Mahany Park, 1501 Pleasant Grove Blvd, Roseville, California with several other River-Friendly EcoLandscapers. Learn about the Seven Principles of River-Friendly Landscaping: Nurture the Soil, Wildlife Habitat, Less to the Landfill, Water Conservation, Energy Conservation, Water & Air Quality, and Landscaping Locally and how you can make your landscape more River Friendly! And there will be other wonderful opportunities to enjoy at this global celebratory event, entertainment from Wild Things, a scavenger hunt, wonderful food, and of course you can visit Roseville's  Utility Exploration Center. Come for the day to learn and have fun while proclaiming your devotion to improve the quality of life for all of Mother Earth's creatures that dwell on wonderful planet water.

March 16, 2016: from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm:

Organic horticulturist and IPM Advocate Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be staffing the Our Water Our World educational booth at Green Acres Nursery and Supply new Rocklin store (5432 Crossings Dr., Rocklin, CA) as part of their Dig Into Spring Ideas Fair. Bring your garden questions and problems (keep samples in a sealed container) and have them identified and learn about environmentally friendly, leas-toxic products and techniques to solve your problems that you can take home with you. Lean about products you can purchase that will feed the soil food web for healthy, drought, and pest resistant plants. Steve will also have some free giveaways! There will also be other experts that can answer questions about any garden and irrigation dilemma you might have as well as free seminars. Hope to see you there!

February 21, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Winter in the organic garden. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

February 27, 2016:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a making two presentations as part of the Garden in Every School Symposium 2016. The event is for teachers, parents, school garden coordinators, and others involved with helping children connect between food, health, and the environment. Gardeners are also welcome. Steven will be making presentations on "Gardening Green From Soil to Managing Pests" and "Soil: Not Just A Dirty Word" on Saturday afternoon. This two day event will take place at Luther Burbank High School, 3500 Florin Road in Sacramento. Registration is only available for the entire two day event.

January 17, 2016: from 8:00 am to Noon:

Organic horticulturist Steven Zien from Living Resources Company will be a guest on Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows from 8:00 am to 10 am on 1530 KFBK and from 10 am to noon on 650 KSTE discussing Winter in the organic garden. Listen and call in to get your questions answered and possibly win a valuable prize. Both programs are also available live streaming on your device or later after the shows as a podcast with links that can be found at Farmer Fred's garden radio talk shows webpage.

January 19, 2016 Steven Zien will be giving his "Soil Not Just a Dirty Word - Exploring the Mysteries of Managing Soil Biology" presentation.

This will take place at the Roseville Better Gardens Club meeting at the Maidu Community Center, 1550 Maidu Drive, Roseville, CA at 1pm. 

Discover in invaluable contributions made by members of the Soil Food Web to your bountiful garden. Bacteria, Fungi, protozoa, mycorrhizae and others improve plant fertility and drought tolerance while providing pest management.

Hope to see you there.