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May 22, 2010
Gardening Green: Sustainable Landscaping
Our Gardening Green class, offered by WSU Whatcom Extension, has been very popular. Class participants in our 3 previous classes have strongly recommended that we increase the number of classes to allow more watershed residents to benefit from this opportunity. Whatcom County is supporting this effort so the classes are offered at no cost to you.
We are gathering names of interested participants in the upcoming classes and workshops. The presenters offer practical information and simple yet powerful actions to protect our drinking water source - Lake Whatcom. Sustainable landscaping is an approach to gardening benefits not only the environment but also the gardener. WSU Extension offers science based gardening knowledge so that you can have a beautiful landscape that takes less time to maintain with each passing year. Learn how to build a foundation of healthy soil, design you landscape beds to manage stormwater, and select plants that are suited for your site.
The comprehensive six-session classes are a combination of presentations by local experts, visits to home gardens utilizing these strategies and on-site consultations at your property. A trip to a wholesale nursery to purchase plants at wholesale prices will be scheduled at the end of the class.
The number of participants, in these 3-week classes, are limited to 8 households. The participants are asked to "pay" for the class with community volunteer service to help neighbors and friends use these low impact strategies to garden greener. Please plan to attend all classes. Each class member will develop their own landscape master plan by the end of the class.
Four one-day workshops will provide in-class presentations only and will be open to more participants.
E-mail gardeninggreen2@gmail.com or call 671-3891 to indicate your interest in the following class options. Please include whether you prefer 1). a weekday or Saturday/Evening class or 2). a one-day workshop. Provide contact information such as an email address or phone number.
Class - Saturday 8:30AM - 2:00PM / Thursday 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM in early summer
Class in early Fall - depending on need either two-weekdays (8:30-1:30) or Saturday/Evening class
Four one-day workshops offered throughout the summer - please indicate weekday or Saturday
May 22, 2010
Silver Beach Beat is a relatively new blog, from a Ms. Sarah Smith. The blog has articles on watershed related issues, including landscaping, low impact development, and park stewardship.
Based on The Lake Whatcom Watershed- A Retrospective Resource Directory published in 2008 for the Whatcom County Public Works Department.
People for Lake Whatcom (PFLW) was formed in 2002 and is an all volunteer
It is organized for educational, scientific and civic purposes as an advocate for the protection, clean-up, restoration, and preservation of the Lake Whatcom Reservoir and its watershed.
Current and future goals include educating the public on the scientific, legal, economic and environmental issues concerning Lake Whatcom and its watershed, as well as actions they can take on an individual basis to be a part of the solution in protecting, cleaning up, restoring, and preserving our community's drinking water source for us and future generations.
