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Black Seed Farms 400 Trees Planting Day
Mar
15

Black Seed Farms 400 Trees Planting Day

2806 Thompson Rd, Langley

This is a family friendly event beginning with introductions and instruction from Whidbey Island Conservation District, followed by a riparian buffer planting to protect the wetlands at Black Seed. Help plant and mulch over 400 bare root trees! Potluck lunch. Snacks and water provided. Black Seed grows food to gift and sell to BIPOC communities, facilitates youth education, and helps to establish economic stability and a dignified, culturally appropriate food supply chain.

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Whidbey Gardening Workshop
Mar
15

Whidbey Gardening Workshop

Oak Harbor High School

Island County Master Gardeners offer 40 classes, demonstrations, Make-n-Take classes, a plant clinic, and vendor Marketplace (free and open to the public after 9:30). Come see us at our booth or join our forester Collin for a workshop to learn principles of fire-resistant plant selection, spacing, and maintenance while diving into steps you can take today to protect your home from wildfire.

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Farmer Town Hall
Dec
5

Farmer Town Hall

Farmer Town Hall, sponsored by the Agriculture Resources Committee for Island County (ARCIC). We will be sharing our recommendations for those Island County’s Comprehensive Plan elements relating to agriculture.

We look forward to your feedback as we work towards making sure that farming is more accurately represented in this important county planning document. In addition, we want the County to adopt policies that will help secure the future of farming in our community. Please join us!

Light meal and social: 5:30—6:00 pm
Program: 6:00—7:30 pm

RSVP to Marian, with names of people attending from your farm. We would like a head count to be sure there’s enough food!

Marian A. Myszkowski
Director of Programs
Goosefoot Community Fund
360.321.4232
www.goosefoot.org

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Wildfire on Whidbey?
Aug
24

Wildfire on Whidbey?

Buy tickets at WICA now for this important all-day event. Experts, government and community leaders will explore with us how climate change is making wildfire more likely here and what we can do to be safer.

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Island Conversations
May
2

Island Conversations

WCA’s own David Haskell has been a zero-waste practitioner, government official, and advocate for over 30 years. David will facilitate a community conversation about how we can dedicate what we don’t eat to its highest  and best use for our health..

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