WSU King County Extension Presents:
Tools for Resourceful Living

WSU King County Extension is delivering a FREE 4 class series designed to help you save money while reducing your impact on the environment through making simple changes in your home and your garden. Each class features a specific stewardship theme and will teach you feasible ways to limit your input into the waste stream, conserve resources, and save money. In 2008, we are bringing these relevant, hands-on, FREE classes to Lake Forest Park and Burien. We will deliver these programs to additional rural and urban communities in the future. WSU King County Extension and King County work collaboratively in providing this and other educational programming for residents of King County.

Please register here.

Burien Class Series

Local Food Year-Round: Simple Methods for Preserving Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Burien Community Center
Wednesday, August 13, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Description: Start thinking now about preserving food for winter! Consider options for food preservation so you can plan your garden for year-round eating. Come learn some safe, simple techniques for saving the flavors of summer to enjoy in the dark season of root vegetables!  This class focuses on jam and jelly making, fruit canning and dehydrating fruits and vegetables. Preserving your own food saves money and provides delicious, satisfying tastes to bring back memories of summer bounty.

Productive Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces: Planning Raised Beds and Containers
Burien Community Center
Wednesday, September 10, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Description: Has a lack of garden space kept you from growing vegetables? Learn how to garden in containers or raised beds and enjoy the delicious freshness of home-grown veggies. Discover the advantages containers can offer over growing in the ground. Learn how raised beds improve fertility and drainage and allow you to garden in spots you wouldn’t otherwise have been able to use. We’ll discuss what makes a good container, how to make a raised bed, soil and fertilizers, insects, diseases, and weeds, and what to grow when. Join us, and don’t go another season without a harvest of fresh veggies you’ve grown yourself!

Composting 101: Turning Waste into a Resource
Burien Community Center
Wednesday, October 8, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Description: Are you interested in improving the quality of soil in your yard and garden? Have you been meaning to learn about composting, or improve the composting method you are currently using? Join WSU Extension to learn quick and easy ways to turn yard trimmings and kitchen scraps into rich soil amendments. This hands-on workshop will cover all you need to know to start building soil using yard and food waste. What you’ll learn:

Rain Gardens: Learn to Design Your Landscape to Protect Our Waterways on Burien Community Center
Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Description: Are you looking for ways to provide habitat for birds and beneficial insects? Would you like to improve the way rain water soaks into your landscape to recharge local groundwater? Are you concerned about automotive pollutants and garden chemicals reaching our streams, lakes and wetlands? Come and learn how to incorporate a rain garden in your landscape and address all these issues! A rain garden acts like a native forest by collecting, absorbing, and filtering stormwater runoff from surfaces that don’t allow water to soak in, while at the same time serving as an attractive garden to both people and wildlife. Learn the basics of rain garden construction and take home resources to help you build your own!

Lake Forest Park Class Series (Sorry, this class series was offered in the spring - please join us in Burien this fall).

Contact: Darcy Batura
Environmental Education Faculty
206.205.3130

We thank our sponsors, the City of Lake Forest Park and the LFP Environmental Quality Commision, and the City of Burien, in helping to put on this series of educational classes.

Please register here

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