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Sustainable Community Stewards Volunteer Training Series
Overview Get ready to learn how to be a sustainable community steward at our volunteer training series – join us and make a difference! Become a WSU Snohomish County Extension Sustainable […]
Growing Groceries: Seed Starting and Growing Transplants
Beginning with how and when to start to seeds, to watering techniques, thinning and transplanting, you’ll learn how to save money and be successful in starting your vegetables from seed.
Growing Groceries: Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants
Learn proper soil and fertility management and how to grow healthy soil for healthy crops.
Growing Groceries: Growing on a small scale – in raised beds and containers
One of the best ways to maximize a small gardening area is to use containers, pots and raised beds as these offer flexibility and control over the growing environment, making them perfect for beginners or those with limited space.
Growing Groceries: Starting a Vegetable Garden
Includes a discussion on site selection, raised beds, planning your crop calendar, plant families, intercropping, succession planting, cover crops, and crop rotation.
Styrofoam Recycling Collection Event
Do you have Styrofoam occupying your home? Filling up garages, corners, and closets? Then bring your (clean) Styrofoam to our FREE collection event on Saturday, August 29th from 10am to […]
Mulch Matters
Even if it looks messy, leaving fallen leaves and dead flower heads in the garden can be helpful. This is a type of free mulch and mulch in the garden […]
Preparing Next Year’s Garden
Is there anything to do in late winter and early spring in the garden? Yes! This is a good time to clean and maintain your tools, plant and divide, start […]
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Cosmic Crisp® tasting connects new Coug families, minds behind legendary WSU apple
Incoming students and their families got a juicy introduction to WSU’s land-grant mission, …