Home front: High honors; spring tomato tips
A roundup of local home and garden news and events, including a realtor who has won the California Association of Realtors' top awards, home value predictions, tips on growing spring tomatoes and an upcoming opportunity to volunteer at a garden. Thursday, 4:21 PM

Bay Area's largest real-estate firm? It's a New York startup
Compass, the venture-funded real-estate startup that launched its first office in the local market just over two years ago, became the Bay Area's largest residential brokerage firm this month after acquiring Peninsula powerhouse Alain Pinel Realtors for an undisclosed amount on March 9. Thursday, 4:17 PM

Home sales
This week along the Midpeninsula, Atherton recorded the highest home sale at $14.6 million, while Menlo Park reported the most homes sold at 11. Thursday, 4:15 PM

Home front: Egg-dyeing at Hidden Villa
A roundup of local home and garden news and events on the Midpeninsula. Thursday, 12:34 PM

Home sales
A complete list of home sales on the Midpeninsula. Tuesday, 11:27 AM

Home sales
A complete list of home sales on the Midpeninsula. Monday, 12:18 PM

Garden club aims to create safe havens for monarchs
It's a startling statistic: The California monarch butterfly population has dropped 86 percent since last year. Palo Alto Garden Club Conservation member Eleanor Laney is one of the leaders of the garden club's Monarch Butterfly Project. She and others hope to increase local monarch populations. Friday, 10:04 AM

Home front: Los Altos Garden Club is 90; make a seed planter
A roundup of local home and garden news and events on the Midpeninsula, including Los Altos Garden Club's 90th birthday and classes on simple seed planters and Japanese maples. Thursday, 1:43 PM

Home sales
A complete list of home sales on the Midpeninsula. Monday, 1:36 PM

Home front: Growing native plants, shade gardens
A roundup of local home and garden news and events, including growing natives, shade-plant class and dates for a spring garden tour. Friday, 11:53 AM

Home front: Rhody talk, class on wall tile
A roundup of local home and garden news and events on the Midpeninsula, including a talk on rhodies, putting in wall tile, repotting orchids and aging in place. Friday, 11:24 AM

Tiny gardens
If you've ever ordered a salad with microgreens from an upscale restaurant and figured these tender vegetable shoots came from a farmer somewhere, they might have. But gardening expert and master gardener Beth McGuire said it's easy enough for anyone to grow microgreens Thursday, 4:32 PM

Home sales

Home front: Design a garden, fix your faucet

Home front: Tile class; short-term rentals

• Palo Alto
• Atherton
• Menlo Park
• Portola Valley
• Woodside
• Mountain View
• Los Altos

• Homeowners and Renters Assistance • Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing • Palo Alto Housing Corporation • Project Sentinal • San Mateo County Association of Realtors • Silicon Valley Association of Realtors