Spring Garden Market - Vendors for 2011
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Vendors
This event is invitation only. We encourage plant vendors not to sell tomatoes and peppers as they are the main products of the Master Gardeners. If you are interested in being a vendor at our Spring Garden Market, please contact the Master Gardeners at sgmvendor@mastergardeners.org
Food Carts in 2011 Spring Garden Market
Fourseasons Tamales
Dolly's Hot Dawgs
Delicious Crepes
Sonia's Sweet and Eats
Holy Cow Coffee Company
Vendors in 2011 Spring Garden Market
| Animal Trapping Services | Animal Trapping Services Provides animal pest control for the south bay area. Our company provides non-poisonous methods of removing pests. |
| ARIA Pure Aromatherapy | Products for sale: Essential oils, healing aroma mists and more |
| Breathe California | As the local lung health leader, Breathe California of the Bay Area fights lung disease in all its forms and works with its communities to promote lung health. They will provide brochures related to lung health (asthma, TB, allergies, air quality, smoking and quitting smoking among others), programs and services, upcoming events and volunteer opportunities. |
| Byron's Crafts 650-797-9158 |
Byron will have some great woodcrafted items for sale: wishing wells, windmills, bridges, and potting tables |
| Calabash Club of Silicon Valley | The Calabash Club will offer for sale a variety of functional and decorative ways that modern gourd art is expressed today. Each gourd is unique in shape, size and density. |
| California Native Garden Foundation | The California Native Garden Foundation is a non-profit educational, research, and resource organization that promotes gardening with California native plants. CNGF's goal is to increase the popularity and use of California's native plants in the designed landscape. |
| California Native Plant Society | The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of California's native plants and how to conserve them and their natural habitats through education, science, advocacy, horticulture, and land stewardship. |
| Campbell Future Farmers of Amer. Boosters, Westmont High School | Campbell chapter of Future Farmer's of America. The students from Westmont High School will sell plants and discuss their program. |
| Capay Organic and Farm Fresh To You | They harvest a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables from their farm and create several home delivery and office delivery service options for you to choose from. The produce in each service changes weekly and varies seasonally, but they work with neighboring organic farms to ensure a good variety of produce year round. |
| CareMore | CareMore started over 15 years caring for seniors as a Medical Group. The name “CareMore” embodied the philosophy that inspired a proactive model of care with a caring touch and a focus on wellness. |
| Carman's Nursery Contact email |
Plants for sale, with a focus on the rare and unusual. Specialties include bonsai starters such as small maples and conifers, herbs, rock garden plants, unusual perennials with a good selection of shade lovers, and rare fruiting plants including fig, kiwi, guava, caper, paw-paw, and pomegranate. We also have collections of variegated plants, rhodohypoxis, and miniature ivies, as well as many plants suitable for the backyard. |
| Clara B Rees Iris Society |
Information about Iris Society and potted iris for sale |
| Cole Canyon Farms | Vegetables, herbs and flowers grown from organic or untreated seed, without the use of pesticides, growth stimulants or retardants. They offer heirloom varieties that thrive in our various micro-climates, unique plants from the many cultures that make up our diverse community. |
| DENJU Worm Products | Plant food from 100% pure worm castings as well worm tea and worms. |
| Dolly's Orchids Contact email |
A local grower of many varieties of orchids offered for sale |
| Epiphyllum World | Many varieties of epiphyllums for sale. |
| Gold Rush Nursery | Gold Rush Nursery specializes in non-invasive plants that are water-wise and/or provide food or habitat for native birds, butterflies and beneficial insects. Our plants cover a wide range of California natives and succulents plus an excellent choice of Salvia (sages) and the more heat tolerant Heuchera (alum root or coral bells). Most of our plants are grown in easy to carry, value for money 4” pots. |
| Gophers Limited | Gophers Limited is dedicated to the humane and efficient resolution of human and animal conflicts. Established in 1999, primarily focusing on gopher and mole control, Gophers Limited has expanded into resolving any human and animal conflict that results in damage in ways that do not degrade the environment and water resources. Thomas will have gopher traps, other trapping equipment and DVDs on display. |
| Home Composting Education Program, Santa Clara County | This volunteer-based educational program teaches Santa Clara County residents how to start and maintain a home compost system for their landscape, garden, and food wastes. |
| Knox Garden Box | The Knox Gardening Box is a raised self contained gardening box, available in multiple sizes. All legs on all models are 36” (3 feet) tall. Custom special orders available. |
| Malibu Compost | Their Biodynamic® Compost blends start with a base of manure and Biodynamic preparations. And while that doesn’t exactly sound appetizing to us, for soil, it’s a five-course meal. They will have Demeter-Certified Biodynamic Compost and "Bu's Brew" Compost Tea for sale. |
| Mosaic and More | A variety of mosaics such as one of a kind flower pots, vases and objects for the home and garden will be for sale. As well decoupaged flower pots and Brushkin and Brushart animals made from palm tree fiber are available. |
| One Seed to Many Contact email | They will offer cherry tomatoes, herbs and pollinators for sale. There will be a gardening project workshop for children. |
| Our City Forest | The mission of Our City Forest is to cultivate a greener, healthier urban environment and a renewed sense of community by involving Silicon Valley residents in the understanding, planting and care of the urban forest. They will provide information to increase public awareness of the value, benefits and needs of trees. |
| Sam's Downtown Feed & Pet Supply | Founded in 1986, this downtown San Jose feed store will offer alfalfa pellets, diatomaceous earth, Fox Farm soil & fertilizer, Wildbird seed & feeders, yard art and chicken books. And much more. |
| Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild | Guild members who are expert beekeepers will be available to explain procedure and answer question. They will also have a display of beekeeping equipment and products. |
| Sean McGrail Horticulture Contact email | In addition to answering horticulture questions, Sean will also be sharpening tools. |
| South Bay Rose Heritage Group | South Bay HRG is a chapter of the nation-wide Heritage Roses Group founded by Miriam Wilkins in 1975 to preserve, enjoy and share knowledge of Old or Endangered roses. We have reorganized, and made this chapter a support organization for the Heritage Rose Garden and its volunteers. We welcome the participation of all garden volunteers in South Bay HRG, as well as those who help with special events, and those who aid our propagation efforts. |
| Special Place Foundation | Based in Santa Clara County, California, the Special Place Foundation seeks to establish a nurturing, semi-rural, residential-vocational community for adults with disabilities, designed to foster self-sufficiency. The Special Place have a vocational organic garden program and their products are certified organic. They will be selling plants seeded and nutured by teens and adults with developmental disabilities. |
| Steven Boboricken and Katie Wong 650-948-3658 | Exotic and unusual plants for sale |
| Terra Sole Nurseries Contact email |
PLANTS! Perennials, herbs, new, interesting, pesticide-free |
| TeamWorks Sustainable Landscape Maintenance | The mission of TeamWorks is to advance worker-cooperatives as a practical way to create a socially-just and stable economy. We believe that capital is a tool that should be subordinate to democratic and human values, and that many entrepreneurs, workers, managers, and communities would prefer to use capital in this way if they knew how. TeamWorks Sustainable Landscape Maintenance offers professional maintenance of lawns and gardens. |
| The Mosaic Garden | Artist Nancy Meyer works incorporate Pique assiette, a style of mosaic art that incorporates pieces of broken ceramics, plates, dishes, cups, tiles, glass, shells, and other found objects into a design. Many mosaic works will be offered for sale as well as information about classes. |
| Urban Farm Girls | Products and services include custom container gardens, artisan pots, living wreaths, rooftop gardens, design & consultation and install & maintenance. |
| UC Santa Cruz Arboretum | The Arboretum at UCSC is a research and teaching facility committed to plant conservation and serves both the campus and the public. Its rich and diverse collection, containing representatives of more than 300 plant families, provides beginning students with a broad survey of the plant kingdom. |
| Veggielution Community Farm | Veggielution is a nonprofit community farm seeking to create a sustainable food system in San Jose. Their volunteer workdays, youth programs, sliding scale farmstand, and community workshops give people a chance to get their hands dirty growing veggies, and learn why the importance of eating healthy food and knowing where it came from. They will be selling vegetable starts. |
| Western Horticultural Society | Founded in 1963, the Western Horticultural Society is made up of horticulturists, botanists, landscape designers and architects, nursery people, students and avid gardeners. The monthly programs in Santa Clara County are designed to appeal to the dedicated plant lover. Items for sale: 4 inch and 1 gallon pots of perennials, succulents and some shrubs |