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September 2024
September 2024 Repair Cafe
September 2024 Repair Cafe Got broken stuff? Toss it? No way! Bring it to a WSU Repair Café! You can bring your vacuums, lamps, computers (software issues only), bikes, jewelry, and one of our volunteer fixers will diagnose the issue and do their best to make it usable again. They will show you their process, order parts if necessary, and help you learn how to do it yourself with one-on-one instruction. Our fixers can repair your items and keep stuff…
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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.
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Growing Groceries: Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants
Learn proper soil and fertility management and how to grow healthy soil for healthy crops.
Find out more »November 2024 Repair Cafe
November 2024 Repair Cafe Got broken stuff? Toss it? No way! Bring it to a WSU Repair Café! You can bring your vacuums, lamps, computers (software issues only), bikes, jewelry, and one of our volunteer fixers will diagnose the issue and do their best to make it usable again. They will show you their process, order parts if necessary, and help you learn how to do it yourself with one-on-one instruction. Our fixers can repair your items and keep stuff…
Find out more »December 2024
Growing Groceries: Growing the Onion and Beet Families
The onion (Allium) family includes garlic, leeks, and shallots as well. The beet (Chenopod) family includes everyone’s favorite, spinach, as well as chard and quinoa. Discussion of both families includes variety selection, cultural requirements, common diseases and pests.
Find out more »January 2025
Growing Groceries: Basics of Irrigation & Weed Management
Join us for a discussion of several types of irrigation products and their application in the food garden. In addition, we’ll focus on the details of installing drip irrigation and its application for gardens and plants.
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Growing Fruit Trees in Western Washington
Learn the basics of growing fruit trees in Western Washington including factors such as site selection, rootstock and size, varieties, pollination, pruning, nutritional requirements and diseases/pests.
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Growing the Pea/Bean Family & the Basics of Cover Cropping
We'll cover the Legume family which includes peas, beans (both green and dry), and lentils as well as the one member of the Solanaceous family that can be planted out early – potatoes! Discussion of all includes variety selection, cultural requirements, common diseases and pests.
Find out more »Growing Groceries: Growing Berries in Western Washington
Topics include variety selection, soil preferences, fertility, pruning, pest and disease management, and cultural requirements for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and other small fruits.
Find out more »February 2025
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.
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