Learn to grow your own food at Transition Snoqualmie Valley event

Published 12:23 pm Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Transition Snoqualmie Valley will host its second annual “Grow Your Own Food” event 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at Tolt Congregational United Church of Christ, 4851 Tolt Ave. in Carnation.

The event welcomes new and experienced gardeners, with workshops on how to:

• Prepare a plot

• Start and transplant seedlings

• Use raised beds

• Protect plants from cold

• Choose plant varieties suited to this climate

• Build simple plant supports

• Make compost, apply selected commercial fertilizers

• Use organic disease and pest control

• Save seeds from your own plants

• Raise backyard ducks and chickens

• Grind your own grains

The event will also feature gardening books, seed catalogs, a children’s gardening feature, and Liz Schwartz, from Duvall True Valley, with seedling supplies and tools.

Learn more at http://transitionsnoqualmievalley.ning.com/