2021 Youth Art Contest Winners and People's Choice
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View the winners and find out who won People’s Choice!
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Wrapping Up Our 36th Annual Plant Sale
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And that’s a wrap! After months of Zoom meetings, planning, and a weekend of epic proportions, our staff are happy to close the lid on the 36th Annual Plant Sale. Wow!
Read MoreSo You're Picking Up Your Plants This Weekend...
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No horsing around! The time is finally here for you to pick up your native plants, rain barrels, masks and stickers!
Read MorePerrinville Watershed / Rain Gardens in Edmonds - Webinar
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Watch a replay of our Perrinville Watershed webinar as well as scroll through the slides
Read MoreEnvirothon 101 - What Is It? How Do I Get Involved?
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Do you work with a Green Team or Environmental Club at a high school or are you interested in becoming an advisor for a student club? Then you may want to learn about Envirothon!
Read MorePerrinville Bioswale - Facebook Livestream in November
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Watch our onsite video from the Perrinville Watershed in November 2020 featuring our super productive Veterans Conservation Corps Crew.
Read MoreA Battle of Light and Dark... And Horses
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Have you ever been trying to hang your horse’s evening hay and have them step on your foot? Yeah, Whiskey’s done that to me. More than once. And he’s not in a hurry to get off it, either, especially when that means backing away from his hay bag…
Read MoreGrowing Profitable Farms - 2021 Cultivating Success Class Registration Open
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The business entrepreneurship course of Cultivating Success registration is open! Learn how to farm in a financially sustainable way.
Read MoreSCD Recruiting High School Students for Natural Resources Competition
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Washington State Envirothon is happening VIRTUALLY in 2021. Reach out to us if you have a class of students who want to learn more about the physical world around them…online.
Read MoreOrca Recovery Day During COVID-19 A Success
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“Orcatober” is officially in the books!
COVID-19 has been a disruption for all of us, but it couldn’t get in the way of recovery efforts for our Southern Resident Killer Whales. We were fortunate to be able to celebrate Orca Recovery Day with all who participated in our scavenger hunt, rain barrel sale and Eco Challenge.
Read More2020 Rain Garden Q&A for Everett Webinar Held
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Watch the video replay from the 2020 Rain Garden Q&A webinar and view the slides.
Read MoreAlternatives to Lawn Webinar Held
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Watch the video replay from the Alternatives to Lawn webinar and view the slides.
Read MoreRain Gardens in the Sierra Park Neighborhood in Edmonds
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Read MoreManure & Pastures- That First Flush
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Fall is quickly approaching, and your horses have been grazing all summer on your nice, lush pastures you’ve been nurturing for a long time now. As the fall and winter rains begin and you will move your horses off the pasture for the winter, I always get questions about what to do with the manure the horses have left behind…
Read MoreTeachers! Our Youth Education Classroom Lessons Have Gone VIRTUAL
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Youth Education has moved online this fall to function in a time of COVID-19. Learn more about our lessons and sign up for your VIRTUAL classroom lessons.
Read More2020 Lake Stevens Cascade Award Presented at City Council Meeting
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Who won the 2020 Cascade Lake-Friendly Gardening Award in Lake Steven? Read on to find out!
Read MoreLetter from Our AmeriCorps Environmental Educator
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Rosemary Hopson worked for SCD as the AmeriCorps Environmental Educator through the Washington Service Corps from last October to July of this year. We asked her to share some reflections about her experiences at SCD, and this is what she had to say.
Read MoreMr. Misunderstood: Your Neighborhood Beaver
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Leave it to beaver— as North America’s largest rodent, they have a hefty amount of influence on our lands.
Second only to humans for their ability to shape the landscape, they dam waterways to create ponds for swimming, foraging, lodging and protection against predators. These dams not only create a better living space for beavers, but for other wildlife and, critically, juvenile salmon that also need spaces to forage and hide from predators.
Read MoreVideo of Intro to Residential Gardening Webinar
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Watch our video about ideas for your residential garden by two of our staff members, Kari and Sara.
Read MoreGuest Post: Zsofia Pasztor on Our Current Food System's Collapse and How to Help
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Editor’s Note: On Thursday, August 13, we held our annual partnership event virtually and we honored to have Zsofia Pasztor from Farmer Frog join us to discuss her work in the center of this national crisis of food insecurity, and the changed world due to COVID-19. She called us from the farm and, like all of us, had challenges with coverage and clarity in this time of heavy internet and cellular use. Here’s her follow up message to those concerned with what they can do to help. - Kari Quaas, SCD
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