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This Saturday and through the end of the year, experience the 10th annual SONOMA VALLEY WINERY GINGERBREAD CONTEST. This free event lets you visit Various Sonoma Valley Wineries along Highway 12 and vote for your favorite gingerbread creation! More information at sonomavalleywine.com

The Oakmont Certified Farmers' Market is a year-round market, held this Saturday on Oakmont Drive and White Oak Drive in Santa Rosa from 9:00 am until Noon.

The Santa Rosa Community Certified Farmers’ Market is at the Veterans Building on Maple Avenue in Santa Rosa - Wednesdays from 8:30 am until 1:00pm. More information on all the Farmers Markets in the North Bay region can be found on our website at northbaybountiful.org

Sonoma County Regional Parks offers a Free Family Nature Walk on Saturday, December 19th from 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM. At Spring Lake Regional Park, a park naturalist will lead this family hike through the park and share knowledge of the area’s plants and wildlife.

On this week’s “Crash Course,” Anthony Garcia and the Lexicon of Sustainability explain how local farmers are rejecting patented, engineered seeds.

This week concludes with a “Sustainable Moment” focusing on the new face of the Grange movement in agriculture.