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Master Gardener Classes and Workshops

Know & Grow

Free home gardening workshops on topics relevant to gardeners throughout the year. Join our mailing list to receive notice of the topics each month. These workshops are held in the WSU NWREC Sakuma Auditorium, 16650 State Route 536, Mount Vernon, WA.

Anacortes Senior College

Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardeners teach courses at the Anacortes Senior College. Classes include:

  • Basic Botany to Help You Know and Understand Your Plants
  • From Seed to Maturity Jump Start Your Garden with Winter Sowing
  • Planting, Pruning, Irrigation, and Composting for the Home Garden
  • Rose Care and Pruning

Check out the offerings and register at Anacortes Senior College.

Skagit County Fair

Get advice on plants, trees, landscaping, and pests at the Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardener booth at the Skagit County Fair in August. Learn about plants that are locally-grown and chosen for success in the Skagit Valley environment.

Toddlers Day

A morning of free activities designed for 2-5 year old children from 10 a.m. to noon, in July at the WSU Extension Skagit County Master Gardeners Discovery Garden, in Mount Vernon.

  • feeding fish in the pond
  • learning about worms
  • story time
  • making a bird feeder
  • looking for butterflies and other insects
  • water play and more

Open House

Want to know about gardening – from roses to vegetables? Want to learn more about including native plants in your landscape? Ever wonder how to grow, graft, and prune fruit trees? Learn about all of this and more at the annual Garden Open House held the last Saturday of June at the Discovery Garden in Mount Vernon.

DIG-IT

Discovery in Gardening is Terrific (DIG-IT).  Master gardeners host day-long field trips for Skagit County 2nd and 3rd graders. DIG-IT, one of six activities during the day, gives students hands-on gardening experience in the style of the Three Sisters garden—beans, corn and squash—a planting technique used by native American cultures.

Tulip Tours

Contact the Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardeners and inquire about our step-on guided informative overview of our wonderful area and are available for your group tour during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. 

Speakers Bureau

Ask our trained and certified members of the volunteer program of Washington State University Extension, Master Gardeners assist Extension. They provide information to home gardeners about sound and sustainable gardening practices. This includes integrated pest management, efficient watering technologies, recycling of garden wastes and cultural methods for preventing and treating plant disease.

WSU is an equal opportunity provider. If you need a reasonable accommodation or language access to participate in an event, please contact Alex duPont, Skagit County WSU Extension Master Gardener Program Coordinator, at alex.dupont@wsu.edu or (360) 395-2367 at least two weeks prior to the planned event. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to limited English proficient individuals upon request.