The WSU Snohomish County Extension Growing Groceries Education Series brings together beginning and experienced gardeners with speakers and topics focused on growing healthy food using sustainable gardening practices.
Join us starting October 17, 2018 for the first class in the Growing Groceries Education Series, classes designed to help you learn how to grow your own food.
With an overall focus on limited space and resources,  this series of speakers and topics will help beginners as well as long time gardeners learn more about growing food using healthy and sustainable practices.
All classes take place on Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm – 9:30pm at WSU Snohomish County Extension’s Cougar Auditorium, 600 128th St SE Everett, WA inside McCollum Park.

Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants #1 - Oct. 16 
      Proper soil & fertility management, soil testing
Healthy Soil = Healthy Plants #2 - Nov. 20 
      Interpreting soil tests; making & using compost
Weeding, Watering, Crop Rotation, Succession - Jan. 16
      Improve crop health, save time, harvest more
Vegetables A-Z #1 - Jan. 22 
      Onion, broccoli, & beet families; how to grow, varieties
Good Bugs, Bad Bugs, & Pollinators - Jan 29 
      Learn who’s who and how to attract the good guys
Small Fruits, Big Harvests - Feb. 12 
      Strawberries, cane berries, blueberries, other small fruit
Seed Starting and Raising Transplants - Feb 26
      Save money and raise the varieties that do best here
​Vegetables A-Z #2 - Mar 4 
      Pea/bean, carrot, & lettuce; how to grow, varieties
Vegetables A-Z #3 - Mar 18 
      Tomato/potato/pepper family; how to grow, varieties
Vegetables A-Z #4 - Mar 25 
      Squash/cucumbers/melons/corn; how to grow, varieties


Take just the classes you want at $20 per class per person. Or…save and take all ten Growing Groceries classes for $175.
Register online at GrowingGroceries.Eventbrite.com.  For more information about all classes in the series or download a form for mail-in registration, visit extension.wsu.edu/snohomish/growing-groceries.
For more information about the program, contact Kate Ryan, (425) 357-6024, kate.ryan@wsu.edu.