Santa Cruz Beekeepers Guild holds monthly meeting

Join the Santa Cruz Beekeepers Guild for its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the El Rio Mobile Home Park, 2120 N. Pacific Ave. This month’s topic will be “gifts from the hive.”

A discussion on maximizing the bounty of honey harvesting, where you’ll learn how to transform every part of the hive into delicious and sustainable products, ensuring nothing goes to waste. Come with questions.

Please remember not to park inside the mobile home park or along the fence at Lenz Arts. Metered street parking is available if the Lenz lot is full.

For more info visit santacruzbees.com.

Tenants’ Rights holds 1-on-1 counseling

Tenant Sanctuary is offering one-on-one counseling from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Felton Library, 6121 Gushee St. This program is for renters in Santa Cruz County who would like one-on-one support from a tenant rights counselor to discuss an issue with housing.

In your 25-minute session, you will learn about your legal rights and how to use these rights to address your situation. Some topics that can be addressed are unsafe or unsanitary housing conditions, rental increases, eviction and threats or harassment, and communication with a landlord. This program occurs every other week.

Tenant counselors help renters understand their rights. They are not lawyers and do not provide legal advice, opinion, or representation.

Volunteer counselor Ciera is a renter and long-term resident of Soquel. She has been working with neighbors to address housing issues since 2018 and was a volunteer counselor with Tenant Sanctuary.

As a member of the Santa Cruz County Renters Union, Ciera believes that renters can work together to gain safer and more affordable housing.

Please call Felton Branch Library at 831-427-7708 or visit santacruzpl.libcal.com/event/13042429 to register for your free, 25-minute appointment.

Housing Matters conducts drop-in hours

The Housing Matters Outreach Team will be available from 1-4 p.m. every Tuesday in the Barbara Gorson Multi Use Room at the Capitola Branch Library 2005 Wharf Road, for families and individuals experiencing homelessness to help them access resources, navigate housing, and meet with Housing Matters representatives. This is a drop-in service; first come, first served.

For more information about this outreach visit santacruzpl.libcal.com/event/12691252.

For more information about Housing Matters call 831-458-6020, housingmatterssc.org">contact@housingmatterssc.org or visit housingmatterssc.org.

Community Center Garden Club welcomes green thumbs

Check out the London Nelson Community Center Garden Club at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday in the garden at 301 Center St.

Do you have a green thumb? Or want to learn basic gardening techniques?

All skills levels and ages welcome to join the London Nelson Garden Club.

Projects include a pollinator and butterfly garden, and utilizing worm and composting bins.

Call 831-420-6180 to learn more or stop by and check it out. The club meetings are led by local gardener Tom Fordham.Native Plant gardening with Master Gardeners

UC Master Gardeners of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties is hosting Native Plant gardening at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Quail Hollow Ranch, 800 Quail Hollow Road.

Diversity creates endless options in landscape designs and offers ways to work in harmony are gardening in containers, have a small yard or a larger plot, native plants can add resiliency to your landscape, help you protect natural resources and preserve our state’s biodiversity.

Join UC Master Gardeners Janice Kuch and Robin Spring as they give you the tools for selecting and locating the right plants for your location

Participants will receive practical handouts, plant lists, tips, and strategies to maximize results. Live specimens will be on display and additional interpretive materials will assist in visualizing your garden.

In addition, because no garden is without weeds, weed identification and eradication information will be available.

Reserve your spot at zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing.

The Garden Digest is compiled by Jesselyn Rego. To submit items for the calendar including events, meetings, resources or anything garden related, email sentinelhomeand garden@gmail.com.