Alameda County Fair Advisors
The club receives money from Alameda County Fair for LAVGC members who volunteer as Horticultural Advisors and as Check-in Clerks. Horticultural Advisors answer questions asked by fair goers in the landscaping exhibit. Check-in Clerks assist on several early mornings by checking in and labeling home-grown produce, flowers, and floral arrangements entered for judging. All volunteers receive free admission and parking tickets for the Fair.
 
April Plant Sale 
Our annual plant sale is our largest fundraiser and is a popular community event. Beginning gardeners can buy relatively inexpensive plants that are highly likely to succeed, because these plants have already succeeded in our members' gardens. Avid gardeners might find a rare plant they've never seen and speak to the gardener about its unique care.
 
Club members start in September, October and November by dividing and potting up plants in their gardens, or bringing clumps to be divided at potting parties.  In January and February there will be workshops on propagation by division, cuttings, and seed. You can learn how to start your favorite plants from seed and make enough for yourself and the Plant Sale. At the March and April meetings, volunteers sign up to work as pricers, cashiers, clerks, truckers, and plant groomers. There is always something that each member can do to help with the Plant Sale
 
Friday before the plant sale, helpers join in at the pricing parties in Livermore and Pleasanton. On the next day, activity will start early in the morning as members deliver plants to the Plant Sale Site and  organize them in groupings of shade, sun, vegetable, house, trees, shrubs, herbs, roses, cactus and other categories.
 
Arbor Day
LAVGC partners with Alden Lane Nursery and the CA Association of Nurserymen to celebrate Arbor Day with an educational school program.
 
Members sort and tag enough small seedlings to distribute to all the second-grade classes in Livermore and Pleasanton (usually over 2,700!). While Livermore has a special committee to help observe Arbor Day in Livermore Schools, LAVGC volunteers provide presentations to all participating second grades in Pleasanton. The volunteers share information about the origin of Arbor Day and lead discussions on why we celebrate Arbor Day and place a high value on trees. Each child is presented with a seedling, a certificate of adoption of the seedling and an informational brochure on how to plant and care for the seedling.
 
Camp Arroyo Children's Organic Garden
LAVGC members work in this Livermore garden with the Camp Arroyo staff. The garden is used during outdoor education camps held throughout the school year.  During the summer, the Taylor Foundation holds camps in the garden for catastrophically ill children.
 
Garden features are designed uniquely for children.  Ornamental and edible plants are grown. The garden, managed by the YMCA, is located in an East Bay park in a uniquely beautiful setting near Del Valle Reservoir. Their website is www.ymcaeastbay.org.
 
Penny Pines
At every LAVGC meeting, we collect money for reforesting burned-out National Forest Lands. For each donation of $68, a government program can re-plant an acre. 
 
Since 1999, we have donated 50 plantations for a total donation of $3400.00. Our trees are growing in Lake Tahoe Basin Management (6 acres), El Dorado National Forest (5 acres), Stanislaus National Forest (5 acres), Plumas National Forest (5 acres), Cleveland National Forest (5 acres), Inyo National Forest (3 acres), Klamath National Forest (2 acres), Lassen National Forest (2 acres), Sequoia National Forest (2 acres), and the Angeles National Forest is on our list but as yet we have not donated any trees.
 
Pleasanton Gardens Senior Housing
LAVGC assists the residents and management at the senior housing community on Kottinger Avenue in Pleasanton by maintaining their indoor potted plants. LAVGC Board meetings are held at the Pleasanton Gardens Community Room.

Sensory Garden at the Pleasanton Senior Center
We have designed and currently maintain a sensory garden adjacent to Pleasanton Senior Center on Sunol Blvd. The Sensory Garden contains plants selected for fragrance, tactile, or auditory features in raised and ground level beds well designed for the enjoyment of the disabled.  LAVGC monthly work parties maintain the garden.

Pleasanton Senior Center
Our club maintains the potted plants indoors at the Pleasanton Senior Center on Sunol Blvd.