Home Front for March 18: Home Front for March 18: (March 18, 2005)

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED . . . Can you unpack? Lift? Arrange? Cashier? Volunteers are needed to work three- to four-hour shifts for Treasure Market 2005, Tuesday, April 26 through Sunday, May 1. Treasure Market is the once-every-two-year arts and antiques event, a fundraiser for the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. Opening Night volunteers are eligible for reduced-rate tickets. Contact Rebecca Pickart, volunteer coordinator, at rpickart1@yahoo.com, or (650) 594-8326.

SPRING LEARNING . . . Feel like picking up a new skill, rather than cleaning up for spring? Palo Alto Adult School is offering courses in "Knitting by Machine," Mondays, March 21-May 23 ($99); "Stained Glass Creations," Tuesdays, March 22-May 31 ($149); "Woodworking: Hand Tool Intensive," Thursdays, March 24-June 2 ($179); Woodworking: Beginning," Mondays, March 21-May 23 ($162) or Tuesdays, March 22-May 31 ($179), all 6:30-9:30 p.m.; or "Gardening in Spring," Wednesdays, March 23-June 1, 10 a.m.-noon, $19. For information, call (650) 329-3752 or visit www.paadultschool.org.

SPRING FLING . . . Filoli will hold its annual Spring Fling, including floral displays, floral design demonstrations, musical entertainment, storytelling and art projects for children, and tours of the house and gardens, tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $15 for members, $20 for non-members, $5 for children 3 and over, and free for children under 3. Box lunches for sale. For information, call (650) 364-8300 or visit www.filoli.org. Filoli is located at 86 Canada Road, Woodside.

GOOD BUGS . . .What plants attract friendly bugs in the garden? Find out tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Roger Reynolds Nursery, 133 Encinal Ave., Menlo Park, when Peninsula Rose Society members share their knowledge. For information, call (650) 323-5612.

EFFICIENT GARDENING . . Carol Cox, co-author of "The Sustainable Vegetable Garden" and garden manager at the Ecology Action Research Garden in Willits, will teach a couple of classes tomorrow. "Companion Planting," from 10:30 a.m. to noon, deals with enhancing productivity while discouraging harmful insects, and "Saving Your Own Seeds," from 2 to 3:30 p.m., will deal with the basic principles involved in producing, collecting and saving seeds. Each class is $19 and held at Common Ground, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto. For information, call (650) 493-6072 or visit www.commongroundinpaloalto.org.

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