Pollinators help over 80% of the flowering plants on our planet reproduce. They include a wide range of creatures, such as “ants, bats, bees, beetles, birds, butterflies, flies, moths, wasps and other unusual animals.” Come listen to Charlie Vanden Heuvel, beekeeper, speak to the importance of just a few of the beneficial pollinators at the … Continue reading
The annual “Master Gardener Foundation of Clark County” is having their Annual Mother’s Day Weekend Plant Sale NEXT weekend: Saturday May 12, 9am-4pm Sunday May 13, 10am-3pm One of the largest selections of plants you’ll find at any plant sale in Clark County: perennials, annuals, vegetables, trees, shrubs, herbs, houseplants, hanging baskets and flower bowls. … Continue reading
The Washougal branch of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library is having their GRAND OPENING for their SEED BANK library, March 31, 2018, 11am – 3pm, Saturday! Not sure what a Seed Bank is? Well, it is like a library for SEEDS, instead of books. You can “check out” seeds that you take home and plant. … Continue reading
If you’re new to the Clark County, Washington, USA area, you might not know “where to start”. Here is just one of our suggestions for you. The Washington State University Extension of Clark County offers programs, classes and training in a huge variety of areas way beyond (but still including) farming and agriculture ! Just … Continue reading
Updated w. pointers to helpful links and books! Join the Community Garden Club of Camas Washougal October 26 at 1pm for “Plant Identification 101” by Julie Carlsen, Master Gardener. We all have “surprise” plants in our gardens, or see plants in woods, parkland and sometimes in the “unmarked” area of garden sales areas and wonder, … Continue reading
Join us March 23, 1pm, for our guest speaker, Joan Veatch. Her topic: The Soil Food Web. “I have always enjoyed playing in the dirt and watching things grow. I am not a gardening ‘expert’, but I do consider myself to be a ‘lifetime learner’. My enjoyment of gardening and learning, led me to enroll … Continue reading
