Upcoming Events

Watering your landscape effectively can save you valuable time and money! You will have healthy plants and avoid paying for water that runs into the storm drain. Yard care specialists will provide advice for getting the most out of every drop. You’ll learn about constructing rain gardens and installing rainwater catchment systems. To get you started, the Snohomish Conservation District will be selling rain barrels for $50.

For details, link here: https://wateringwisely2020.eventbrite.com

Come to this hands-on event to learn about rain gardens and stormwater management, meet neighbors who love their cisterns and rain gardens, and talk with contractors who are ready for new clients. See how cisterns, rain gardens and permeable paving at HPIC manages rainwater runoff from their property. Learn the basics for rain garden and cistern care at a hands-on maintenance workshop. Open to the public. Refreshments available.

Join in restoring a campus green space by removing invasive species! Noexperience is necessary and all tools will be provided. Please wear clothes youcan get dirty and bring a water bottle. The meeting will be at the new site on theEast side of Sieg Hall closest to the HUB.  Email Courtney at cbobsin@uw.edu for more information!

This two-day short course will focus on increasing your knowledge and skills around on-farm composting. The course will include hands-on exercises in compost recipe formulation, feedstock assessment, and construction of aerobic and properly wetted compost piles. End use of compost products to improve production and soil health on-farm and best practices to protect water quality will also be included. Representatives from Washington Department of Ecology and Department of Agriculture will be present on regulations effecting on farm regulations and Organic Program participation. 

Please plan to attend both sessions of this class (Feb. 27th and March 5th).  More info and register at: https://piercecd.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=1884&month=2&year=2020&day=27&calType=0

Join in restoring a campus green space by removing invasive species! Noexperience is necessary and all tools will be provided. Please wear clothes youcan get dirty and bring a water bottle. The meeting will be at the new site on theEast side of Sieg Hall closest to the HUB.  Email Courtney at cbobsin@uw.edu for more information!

FREE three-day orientation for Contractors and Landscape Professionals to learn the requirements to install cisterns and/or rain gardens on private property in specific Seattle neighborhoods through RainWise, a City of Seattle and King County rebate program. This three-day orientation is a required prerequisite for all contractors who wish to qualify to perform RainWise installations. March 7th 10AM-12PM, March 10 & 12 6-8:30PM.

Registration Link: https://rainwisecontractor2020.bpt.me/

This popular program features expert speakers on avariety of sustainable landscaping techniques - featuring tips for native plantlandscaping, raingardens, landscaping for wildlife, healthysoils/composting, attracting birds/pollinators to your backyard, waterconservation, permaculture, stormwater runoff, invasive plants, integrated pestmanagement, and much more! Classes are free and held on Wednesday evenings (6-8:30pm) beginning March 18th and continuing through April 22nd. Two Saturday field trips are scheduled for April 4th and April 18th.

Registration is required by March 13th. To register contact Kristi Carpenter: (360) 428-4313 or kristi@skagitcd.org.

Save the date for the 5th Annual Green Infrastructure Summit!

For more information head to: http://www.12000raingardens.org/summit/

The PCMG Rain Garden Team invites you to a 2-day Rain Garden Workshop!
March 27th Friday 8:45-3:30
March 28th Saturday 8:45-3:30

Open to PCMGs AND the general public. Call the office clinic at 253-798-7170 or email pierce.mg@wsu.edu to register.

Learn about how you can apply for a rebate to cover up to 100 percent of the cost of your rain garden or cistern. See examples of RainWise installations and meet RainWise contractors to learn what will work for you.

Registration Link: http://tinyurl.com/RainWiseRegister

Have you been curious about starting a food garden, but not sure how to begin? Or worried it will cost too much? Learn how growing food in your yard can be simple, inexpensive, and provides many other benefits for people and the planet. We will provide plenty of information and resources to get your garden going, as well as free seeds!

For details, link here: https://sustainablefoodgardening2020.eventbrite.com

Join Stewardship Partners and Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center for a day of fish and wildlife habitat restoration in our month long celebration of Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary! Today we’ll maintain our Alder Grove buffer by removing invasive plants such as Himalayan blackberry and planting some native trees & shrubs. Light refreshments (coffee, water, and snacks), tools, gloves, and an overview of the work we are doing are provided. We’ll also educate volunteers about Oxbow and Stewardship Partners. Bring a snack if you would like, as well as a full water bottle and a coffee cup or travel mug for refreshments. Dogs are not allowed on the farm.

More information and sign up to volunteer at: https://www.stewardshippartners.org/volunteer-opportunity/earth-month-event-habitat-restoration-at-oxbow-farm-and-conservation-center-2/

Join Stewardship Partners, Carnation Elementary School, the Snoqualmie Tribe, and Aspect Consulting as we celebrate Earth Day’s 50 year anniversary with a maintenance work party at the Carnation Elementary School rain gardens. In 2015, Stewardship Partners received a grant from the King County Flood Control District to work with the 3rd grade class to design and install two rain gardens on the campus. They were installed in 2018 and are doing great, they just need a little upkeep and weeding! Rain gardens are a beautiful landscape amenity that help address our region’s single largest water quality threat: run off pollution. Like a sponge, a rain gardens allow stormwater runoff to be soaked up, and filter out pollutants while recharging ground water instead of flooding the Snoqualmie River.

Refreshments (coffee, water & snacks), tools, gloves, and an overview of the work, why it’s important and how to do it are provided. We’ll educate volunteers about the project and our efforts in the Snoqualmie Valley. Bring a full water bottle and a coffee cup or travel mug for refreshments.

More information and sign up to volunteer at: https://www.stewardshippartners.org/volunteer-opportunity/earth-month-event-rain-garden-maintenance-work-party-at-carnation-elementary-school/

hanging Seasons Farm is a small family farm growing a wide variety of vegetables using ecologically sustainable methods. Their produce is Certified Naturally Grown, and the farm is Salmon-Safe certified. The farm provides produce to people in the Seattle – Eastside area through on-farm purchase. They also offer Consumer Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes that are available for pick up at the farm and in Issaquah, Washington. </p>

Today volunteers will join in our month long celebration of Earth Day’s 50^th Anniversary by helping us restore and maintain riparian habitat at Changing Seasons Farm along the Snoqualmie in the scenic Snoqualmie Valley. We’ll perform restoration site maintenance on past planting areas by clearing the area of invasive plants. We may also plant native trees and shrubs today. The project site may be located on relatively rough terrain and there is a fair amount of walking involved.  </p>


More information and sign up to volunteer at: https://www.stewardshippartners.org/volunteer-opportunity/earth-month-event-habitat-restoration-at-changing-seasons-farm/

 The next Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference will be April 19-22, 2020 at the VancouverConvention Center in Vancouver, BC. The theme is Shared Knowledge for the Future.Presentations are expected to cover the most pressing issues and solutions from storm watermonitoring and management, to orca protection and impacts of climate change. 

More information at: https://wp.wwu.edu/salishseaconference/