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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 […]

Delightful Dahlias

Have you ever wanted to grow dahlias, but were not sure how to start? This presentation will show you how. We will also present the history, classification, and the different […]

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Requiem for the Packaging King

It can hold the most delicate objects AND be detrimental to our environment. The Packaging King — expanded polystyrene foam or EPS — pollutes our water and takes hundreds of years to breakdown in landfills. Once broken apart, the polystyrene components crumble into small bits that contaminate our environment even further. Discover ways to reuse EPS and learn how it can be reprocessed into products with a longer lifespan. Future solutions include using textile waste and biomaterials as sustainable packaging filler.

Preserving the Salish Sea

Discover simple ways to help keep the Salish Sea beautiful and reduce plastic pollution. National Microplastics expert and WSU grad Julie Masura shares tips to help maintain this biologically diverse inland marine ecosystem. Together, we can make a difference in the health of wildlife, salmon, orcas, and other marine species.

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Featured Events

Growing Groceries: Seed Starting and Growing Transplants

Growing Groceries: Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants

Growing Groceries: Growing on a small scale – in raised beds and containers

Growing Groceries: Starting a Vegetable Garden

Styrofoam Recycling Collection Event

Mulch Matters

Preparing Next Year’s Garden

Delightful Dahlias

Upcoming Events

Preserve the Harvest 6: Basics of Pressure Canning

Styrofoam Recycling Collection Event

Planning Fall Containers

Shoreline Story Time at Darrington Library

Delightful Dahlias

Featured Content

Requiem for the Packaging King

Preserving the Salish Sea

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