Garden Education
Garden Festival to Benefit Mountain Community Garden
Join us for the first Garden Festival and help Mill Haus fundraise for Eatonville’s Mountain Community Garden!
Event Overview
1:00-1:40 What's the Buzz about Native Plants?
2:00-2:40 Healthy Plants & Healthy Environments: Reduce the use of Pesticides
3:00-3:40 More Trees Please!
4:00-4:40 Climate Friendly Gardening
Event Overview
- Garden Market: 18+ vendors including local farms, nurseries, garden art plus treats and wellness goodies sprinkled throughout
- Raffle: Enter to win a garden & wellness basket worth $150+ with local honey, tea, skincare, seeds and more!
- Free trees will be handed out to all participants from the Mountain Community Garden booth
- Hands-on Activities for All Ages: Garden rock painting, seed planting, seed bomb making, painted garden ceramics including planting pot, garden stakes, gnomes and mushrooms (available until supplies last)
- Expert led workshops including the Pierce County Master Gardeners will speak on the following topics at our covered fire pit:
1:00-1:40 What's the Buzz about Native Plants?
2:00-2:40 Healthy Plants & Healthy Environments: Reduce the use of Pesticides
3:00-3:40 More Trees Please!
4:00-4:40 Climate Friendly Gardening
April is Native Plant Appreciation Month. Check out the Washington Native Plant Society Events.
Edible Garden Series
Explore the basics of successful vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest—from seed to table.
Classes are taught by educators from Harvest Pierce County (a program of the Pierce Conservation District), Pierce County Planning and Public Works and the Franklin Pierce School District.
Visit https://www.co.pierce.wa.us/1558/Edible-Gardens-Workshops
Recordings of classes are also available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsTiNfFJHhvnAzaaz1Kn9c944Y8PO7hoe
Master Gardener Plant Sale
The annual Pierce County Master Gardener Plant Sale is scheduled for the last weekend in April.
See this link for more information: https://extension.wsu.edu/pierce/duplicated-news-and-articles/
See this link for more information: https://extension.wsu.edu/pierce/duplicated-news-and-articles/
Puyallup Children's Garden, Pierce County Master Gardeners
Gardening Resources
Gardening Resources from Pierce County Master Gardeners
Growing Oregon Gardens Level Up series
USDA National Agricultural Library
Vegetable Varieties for Our Region
Growing Warm Season Vegetables in the Pacific Northwest
Growing Vegetables in the Pacific Coastal Region
Favorite Vegetables for the Pacific Northwest
Native Plants for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects of the Maritime Northwest (Xerces Society)
Native Pollinator Garden Recipe Card (Pollinator Partnership and Earth's Allys)
Solving Your Pest Problems Without Harming Pollinators (Pollinator Partnership)
Gardening with Lisa Seed Catalog Recommendations
Pollinators
Northwest Pollinators and Climate Change
https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NW_Pollinators%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf
Pollinators and Water-Wise Gardening with Native Plants
This hand-out can be found on a page with a number of other hand-outs from Washington Native Plant Society
https://www.wnps.org/index.php?preview=1&option=com_dropfiles&format=&task=frontfile.download&catid=139&id=1203&Itemid=1000000000000
The Mountain Community Garden is a member of The People’s Garden which is an NRCS program. They offer webinars on many topics pertaining to gardens including this one on pollinators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyF0i3p-gQE
Pollinator Partnership
https://www.pollinator.org/shop/brochures
NRCS recommended
https://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com/plant-lists--posters.html
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Farming%20for%20Pollinators.pdf