Jeff Wittler speaks about Hummingbirds Sep 23, 2026!
Jeff Wittler is our guest speaker on September 23, 2026. His topic is Hummingbirds! More info coming soon!
Jeff Wittler is our guest speaker on September 23, 2026. His topic is Hummingbirds! More info coming soon!
Greater Portland Iris Society: Beardless Iris Sale August 29th & 30th, 9 am – 4 pm each day (or until sold out) Portland Nursery * 5050 SE Stark Street * Portland “The Greater Portland Iris Society’s Beardless Iris Sale will again be at the Portland Nursery Stark Street shop. “From sun to shade, or dry …
Members of the Community Garden Club of Camas/Washougal recently visited Hayes Freedom High School, a recipient of one of the club’s grants. Thanks to these funds, the school has been able to revitalize its community garden space. The garden serves as a valuable learning tool for biology, chemistry, and food science. It also provides various …
Representatives from the “Community Garden Club of Camas/Washougal” recently visited Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School, a recipient of one of our club’s grants. The purpose of the visit was to see firsthand how the grant funds were used. The school used the grant to create a sensory garden featuring native, sun-loving, and drought-resistant plants. The project …
Members of the “Community Garden Club of Camas-Washougal” recently visited the Hathaway Elementary School garden, one of the recipients of this year’s grants. They were greeted by pre-kindergarten and third-grade students who shouted out a big thank you to the club. This grant provided essential supplies and plants for the garden. During the visit, students …
Here’s an “old timey” way to check the moisture in your soil, to see if your plants need more water – the “2nd Finger Joint Test for Moisture”. Thanks go to one of our member’s grandfather, a South Dakota farmer/rancher, born in 1887, who taught her this method when she was a toddler, first learning …
The “Community Garden Club of Camas / Washougal” ‘s first meeting for fiscal year 2026-2027 will be Wednesday, August 26, 2026, starting at NOON and it will be a POTLUCK! We are on “summer break” from now, May 28th, through August 26, 2026 – tending our own gardens, going on field trips to other gardens …
Here are the schedules of farmer’s markets in southwest Washington, USA for the Winter through Summer of 2026. (Please drop us a line if you know about others or find a mistake – is La Center still having a Farmer’s Market?) Battle Ground Farmer’s Market (Indoors) Fridays 2-7pm & Saturdays 9am-2pm (starting March 27) 15 …
Deer find raw eggs on plants disgusting and a scientific study backs it up! 6 eggs & one gallon of water working effectively as a deer repellent for several Garden Club members who’ve tried it! A study at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 2001, titled “Comparison of Commercial Deer Repellents”, showed that two commercial …
The BIG LIST of the PLANTS to be available for the Community Garden Club of Camas and Washougal PLANT SALE on May 20, Saturday, from 9am-3pm, is now available on our web page in .pdf (Adobe) and .jpg (picture) formats. Lots of information about our location, prices, raffles can be found, too! Either press on … Continue reading
Thank you loyal and new customers. Our Annual Plant Sale is over. See you at our 2018 spring sale next year! MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Community Garden Club of Camas Washougal‘s annual PLANT SALE will be May 20, 2017, 9am-3pm, in the basement of the Camas United Methodist Church, 706 NE 14th Ave., Camas, … Continue reading
The Community Garden Club of Camas Washougal is pleased to announce our guest speaker for the March 22 general meeting will be Michael Stucky of Millennium Farms speaking on the topic of “Organic Methods of Gardening”. Additionally, Michael will also be selling a limited selection of his products at this meeting! For more information on … Continue reading
The topic of the 1pm February 22 CGCofCW meeting will be something very different – “Garden Tales”! Every gardener, new or experienced, young or old, has trod their own special path on the way to becoming a gardener. And along the way each has experienced marvelous successes, sometimes funny failures and absolute surprises. Comes hear … Continue reading
The Garden Club is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016-2017 Grant Program! For more information about the yearly grant program and past receipients, please see: https://gardenclubofcamaswashougal.org/grants/ Continue reading
Join us to learn about lavender from a local expert! Mary Jones – co-owner of Scented Acres Lavendar Farm, Brush Prairie, WA – will present “Lotions & Potions” as the Garden Club’s January speaker. Mary and her husband have been farming and raising lavender since 2004 and sell over 25 varieties, along with a huge … Continue reading
SEED: The Untold Story is a feature-length documentary film that follows farmers, scientists and seed collectors working to protect the diversity of 12,000 years of agriculture amidst corporate corruption, the erosion of food democracy, and an impending global food crisis. * ONE NIGHT ONLY – Camas Premiere of SEED: The Untold Story * Two showings … Continue reading