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May 2015
City Fruit – Save Seattle’s Apples Orchard Volunteer
Join City Fruit in a series of work party events to Save Seattle’s Apples! This spring campaign is meant to engage the community and promote awareness of the urban fruit trees, prevent common pests from spreading to nearby trees, keeping nutritious food from going to waste, and helping to preserve the biological diversity of fruit trees in Seattle. City Fruit needs volunteers and volunteer groups to help place protective bags over the young apples in their orchard. These bags will…
Find out more »June 2015
Pacific Northwest Cider Awards – 2nd Annual Cider Competition and Festival
Join PNWCA for a one-day cider tasting festival on Saturday, June 6, held at Seattle Cider Company’s tasting room – The Woods (4700 Ohio Ave S) – in SoDo! Open to the public and featuring an estimated 30+ ciders on tap throughout the day, this exciting new event gives Seattle-area cider lovers the chance to enjoy specialty and limited edition ciders from producers throughout Washington, Oregon, Montana and Canada. Please note this is a 21+ event.
Find out more »Cloud Mountain Farm – Workshop: Summer Care in the Vineyard
You will learn about at shoot positioning, summer pruning, bunch thinning, water management, and disease management. All of these issues are critical to the production of quality grapes for eating and wine. No registration required. Be prepared to be outside.
Find out more »Cloud Mountain Farm Center – Advanced Stone Fruit Growing, Part 2
Learn the process of scouting for pest and disease issues, and look at how our pruning earlier in the spring is affecting the early growth of the trees. We'll also look at fruit set, and have a hand-on thinning practicum. Be prepared to be outside.
Find out more »Snohomish County Extension – Preserve the Harvest: Basics of Safe Canning
Learn the basics of food safety and canning skills, including bacteria and food spoilage, canning equipment, and canning high/low acid foods. Demonstration of the process; no hands-on in this class only.
Find out more »Snohomish County Extension – Drip Irrigation Workshops
Master Gardener and drip irrigation expert Jeff Thompson cuts through all the confusion about drip irrigation systems in a hands-on workshop sponsored by WSU-Snohomish County Extension. The two-and-a-half hour workshop is designed to make a novice comfortable with all aspects of designing and implementing a low volume drip irrigation system for the home gardener. It includes what parts to use, where to get them, and most importantly, how not to waste resources by purchasing the wrong equipment. The workshop will…
Find out more »Snohomish County Extension – Drip Irrigation Workshops
Master Gardener and drip irrigation expert Jeff Thompson cuts through all the confusion about drip irrigation systems in a hands-on workshop sponsored by WSU-Snohomish County Extension. The two-and-a-half hour workshop is designed to make a novice comfortable with all aspects of designing and implementing a low volume drip irrigation system for the home gardener. It includes what parts to use, where to get them, and most importantly, how not to waste resources by purchasing the wrong equipment. The workshop will…
Find out more »Sorticulture, Everett Garden Arts Festival
Featured artists create distinctive hand-crafted gardenart and the nurseries produce a wide variety of plants to transform your backyard. Learn tips and tricks from top regional gardening experts including KING 5's Ciscoe Morris. Sorticulture also features display gardens, food fair, a wine garden, live music and free activities for the kids.
Find out more »WWFRF – Thinning & Footies Workshop
This will be a chance to learn and get some hands on experience with thinning and putting footies on the developing apple fruit to deter apple maggot and coddling moth damage. The Board Meeting will take place at the same time and then we will have a combined potluck lunch with the workshop participants and then we will all help thin in the Fruit Garden. 10:30-12:30 WWFRF Board Meeting in Master Gardener’s Pavillion 10:00-10:30 Educational introduction to benefits of Thinning…
Find out more »City People’s Garden Store Workshop: Growing Fruit in Containers, Sunday, June 14, 2015
Instructor Jacqueline Cramer will talk about what to look for when picking out a container fruit tree, successful varieties in this climate, and how to plant and care for them.
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