What would Sunday be without our farmers markets? There are so many options and if you’re feeling energetic, you can easily attend two or three before heading home to make a wonderfully local Sunday supper.

Bodega Bay Certified Farmers Market 
2555 Highway One
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (seasonal)

Kenwood Community Certified Farmers Market
200 Warm Springs Rd., Kenwood
noon to 4 p.m. (seasonal)

Sebastopol Certified Farmers Market
Town Plaza, corner of McKinley & Petaluma Avenues.
10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (year round)

West End Farmers Market
9 Fourth St., Visitors Center Parking Lot, Railroad Square
9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (seasonal)

Windsor Farmers Market
East side of the Town Green
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (seasonal)

From late spring through fall, you are never far from a Sonoma County farmers market. This Saturday, there are five.
Four of the Saturday markets take place in the morning. One, the Petaluma Farmers Market, takes place in the afternoon. Here’s the round up.

Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market
50 Mark West Springs Rd. (west side parking lot)
8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Santa Rosa Community Farmers Market
1351 Maple Ave. (east side parking lot of Veterans Memorial Building)
8:30 a.m. to l p.m.

Oakmont Farmers Market
6585 Oakmont Dr.
9 a.m. to noon

Healdsburg Farmers Market
North & Vine Streets, one block west of the town plaza
9 a.m. to noon

Petaluma Walnut Park Farmers Market
Walnut Park, corner of Fourth & D Streets
2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

This Friday, June 10, McEvoy Ranch (5935 Red Hill Rd., Petaluma) hosts a “Botanical Design Workshop” with Francesca Perez, a floral designer based in Santa Rosa, and members of the ranch’s gardening team. The workshop takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Participants will create their own arrangements to take home and can stay after the workshop concludes too shop in the ranch’s retail space, where they’ll find current release wines, the current vintage of estate olive oil, and a range of related specialty products.

Cost of the workshop is $95 per person for the general public; participants must be at least 10 years old. Those 21 and over will enjoy a glass of wine while they work. If you want to join in, sign up right away by calling (707)769-4138 or emailing visit@mcevoyranch.com.

The 550-acre ranch includes 80 acres of Italian varietal olive trees, fruit orchards, vineyards, and spectacular flower and vegetable gardens.

Today from 5 to 7 p.m., Spinster Sisters (401 South A St., Santa Rosa) hosts a reception for artist Mary Jarvis, whose newest woodgrain paintings will be on display at the restaurant through the end of July.

Today, June 7, the Forestville Certified Farmers Market opens for its 2016 season in a new location in downtown Forestville. You’ll find it at 6990 Front St., across from Fred’s Liquor. In previous years, the market was held at Cork’s Restaurant at Russian River Vineyards. The new location offers something that was in limited supply at the restaurant: Shade!

Produce and egg vendors on opening day include the Russian River Vineyards farm, RLR Vineyards Farm, and SunRise Ranch, all located in Forestville; Min-Hee Hill Gardens of Sebastopol and Armstrong Valley Farm of Guerneville. Achadinah Cheese of Petaluma will attend, too, as will Dominique’s Sweets. The Green Grocer, Canneti’s Roadhouse, Forestville Pizzeria, and Tiny Town Cafe will attend with a wide array of breads, beverages, sweets and other foods to enjoy on the spot. Frozen Art will have delicious fresh-fruit ice-creams to cool you off.

Local craft, body product, and gift vendors round out the market.

Tonight’s opening market will feature lively Zydeco music by T-Luke and the Tight Suits, pony rides, a petting zoo, and a wine-tasting garden.

The market opens at 4 and continues until 7:30. every Tuesday through October 25.

The Sonoma Horticultural Nursey is tucked away off a narrow country lane in south Sebastopol. If you weren’t looking for it, you would never know these eight-and-a-half acre demonstration gardens existed. Once you find it, you will lose yourself in the enchanting enclave. Ponds, sculptures, giant gunnera, fountains, a beautiful allée, and bridges wind and weave through a private little paradise, with more than a mile and a half of pathways. You can go for a visit, for inspiration, a picnic, or to stock up on special plants for your own garden.

The nursery and gardens are open Thursday through Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is no charge for individuals or small groups and reservations are not necessary. Groups of ten or more must reserve two weeks in advance; cost is $5 per person. Guided tours are $10 per person, with a five person minimum. Groups are welcomed on weekdays only.

Sonoma Horticultural Nursery, 3970 Azalea Lane, Sebastopol, 95472, (707)823-6832, sonomahort@comcast.net.

Today, June 5, Jill Adams makes her final appearance of the season at the Sebastopol Farmers Market, where she’ll have fresh morels and spring porcini for sale.

The year-round market is located in the town plaza, at the corner of Petaluma and McKinley Aves. It opens officially at 10 a.m. (some shoppers arrive as early as 8:30) and winds down around 1:30.

The next time you visit Safari West, ask if there’s a trip to Catfish Lake after sunset. Feeding the catfish is fun but watching the black swans is mesmerizing, especially when the moon is full.

The pool at Francis Ford Coppola Winery opened today for its 2016 season. It is the ideal close-to-home getaway, evocative of an earlier time in Sonoma County when this was a vacation destination for the entire Bay Area, many of whom traveled here by stagecoach.