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April 2024
Digging Deeper 2024 – Pruning Basics on the North Olympic Peninsula
As tempting as it might be to break out those shears and prune your plants with abandon this spring, you may be doing more harm than good to your trees and shrubs. Find out how to prune properly this spring for a beautiful garden year-round! Join Clallam County Master Gardeners Gordon Clark, Tom Del Hotal and Keith Dekker For the 2024 Digging Deeper Saturdays presentation: “Pruning Basics on the North Olympic Peninsula” will be held in person on: Saturday April…
Find out more »Farm Glean
Our Farm Gleaning program distributes thousands of pounds of unharvested produce from local farms to food banks and other food access organizations in the region. Glean volunteers get a cut of the harvest, too! Food Access Coordinator Benji Astrachan leads weekly farm gleans. Exact day and time varies each week. Please email benji.astrachan@wsu.edu for more information and to join gleans.
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Green Thumb 2024 – Flea Beetles
Do your mustard greens resemble Swiss cheese, pocked with little holes and a lot of sadness? Flea beetles are the likely culprits, and these little buggers have a big appetite! Join WSU Clallam County Extension Regional Horticulture Specialist Laurel Moulton for the Green Thumb Education Series presentation “Flea Beetles” to find out how to keep these naughty nibblers at bay. The 2024 Green Thumb Education Series presentation “Flea Beetles” will be held in person on Thursday, April 25th from noon…
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Farm Glean
Our Farm Gleaning program distributes thousands of pounds of unharvested produce from local farms to food banks and other food access organizations in the region. Glean volunteers get a cut of the harvest, too! Food Access Coordinator Benji Astrachan leads weekly farm gleans. Exact day and time varies each week. Please email benji.astrachan@wsu.edu for more information and to join gleans.
Find out more »Peninsula Food Coalition monthly meeting
The Peninsula Food Coalition is an informal group of local and statewide Food Access and Hunger relief organizations with the mission of recovering and distributing nutritious food to people in need across the North Olympic Peninsula. Meetings take place monthly and are open to all. Reach out to the Peninsula Food Coalition at peninsulafoodcoalition@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.
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2024 Plant Clinic at Swain’s General Store
Come visit the Master Gardeners at the Swain's General Store with your questions, insects, and plant samples. We love sharing relevant, unbiased, research-based horticulture and environmental stewardship information with our community. Sessions go from 10 am to 1 pm starting April 5th, 2024 and will continue every other Friday through September 20th, 2024. You can also email the Plant Clinic at mgplantclinic.clallam@gmail.com Or please call 360-565-2678
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Master Gardener Plant Sale 2024
Don't miss the biggest sale yet! Save the date! It’s the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County Spring Plant Sale at Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road. in Sequim Saturday, May 4th, 2024 from 9:00 am to 12:30 p.m. (closed 12:30 – 1 p.m. in preparation for our 1/2 Price Sale from 1-3 p.m.). Veggie and herb starts, perennials, shrubs, saplings and more are in store for shoppers this year with Master Gardeners on hand to help you make the best choices…
Find out more »Farm Glean
Our Farm Gleaning program distributes thousands of pounds of unharvested produce from local farms to food banks and other food access organizations in the region. Glean volunteers get a cut of the harvest, too! Food Access Coordinator Benji Astrachan leads weekly farm gleans. Exact day and time varies each week. Please email benji.astrachan@wsu.edu for more information and to join gleans.
Find out more »Green Thumb 2024 – Understanding Your Nightcrawlers
Pollinators are important to the environment, but if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find the unsung heroes of good gardens everywhere: nightcrawlers! These wonderful wigglers are earthworms that help aerate, filtrate and recycle organic material in your soil making it richer to help plants grow and thrive. Get to know your earthworms! Join local gardener, photographer and inventor Brad Griffith for the Green Thumb Education Series presentation “Understanding Your Nightcrawlers: If Darwin Had Popsicle Sticks” to find out more…
Find out more »Plant Clinic at Sequim Farmer’s Market 5-11-2024
Come join us at the Sequim Farmer’s Market! We look forward to sharing WSU Extension Resources with you. Clinicians will be available from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm each Saturday listed. Master Gardeners will be there on May 11th and 25th June 8th and 29th July 6th, 13th, and 27th August 10th, 24th, and 31st September 14th and 28th and October 5th. Master Gardener Plant clinics are opportunities for members of the public to get help solving gardening problems, or finding out…
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