You must pre-register for all classes. Contact Joleen Palmer, Stillwaters Program Director at 360-297-2876 or Joleen@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org.

SUSTAINABILITY DISCUSSION COURSES

7 – 9 pm 

Various evening series -- See Dates Below

at Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road; Kingston)

$30/one, $40/household

MENU FOR THE FUTURE

Thursdays, May 8 - June 12, 2008
Purpose:

Topics for "Menu for the Future" include:

• “What’s Eating America?” – the effects of modern industrial eating habits on culture, society and Earth.
• “Anonymous Food” – the historical shift from family farms near home, to industrial agriculture and getting your food from the whole world and what that means ecologically.
• “Farming for the Future” – emerging alternatives in food and choices individuals can make.
• “You Are what You Eat” – the human health perspective and food policies that shape our well-being.
• “Toward a Just Food System” – issues of hunger, equity and Fair Trade bring in the role of all of us, from individuals to governments, in creating a more just food system.
• “Choices for Change” – the inspiration and advice for choosing local, seasonal and sustainably grown and produced food for you and your family.

Click here for more information on other Sustainability Courses Planned

To register : Contact Joleen Palmer, Stillwaters

Program Director at 360-297-2876 or Joleen@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org

RAIN BARREL MERRIMENT

Saturday, May 17 -- 10:00 am

at Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road; Kingston)

$45/one barrel, $40/each additional barrel

Learn to create your own rain barrels for water conservation. These are great items for watering the garden with your roof runoff. Also learn the best ways to install your rain barrel and how to make the best use of it. Our instructor is Debbie Thomas from Kitsap County PUD. Only $45 for the fun class, which includes materials for one barrel that you will produce in class. The class will produce additional barrels, and they can be purchased by participants at $40 per barrel during the class.

Please register by May 15 at 360-297-2876 or info@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org.  

RAIN GARDENS IN YOUR LANDSCAPE

Saturday, May 31 -- 9:30 am

at Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road; Kingston)

$30/person, $45/couple

This is not a rain dance . . . but our board member, Kinley Deller will show us how to reduce stormwater and pollutant runoff by incorporating raIn gardens into our yards. Learn the basics for construction and implementation in your yard. Rain gardens are one of the most versatile and effective tools in protecting your home by managing and reducing stormwater runoff. 

Learn how to design and install a rain garden with Kinley Deller, Solid Waste Division of Metro King County.  By learning the anatomy of a rain garden you will be creating a system in your landscape that collects, absorbs, and filters stormwater runoff from roofs, driveways, patios, and other areas that don’t allow water to soak in.  Rain gardens can be shaped and sized to fit your yard.   Participants will receive an excellent Rain Garden Handbook with pictures and graphics describing how to design, build, plant and maintain a rain garden. Please pre-register at 360-297-2876 or info@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org.

COMPOST WITH CLASS

Saturday, May 31, 2008 -- 2 - 4 pm

at Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road; Kingston)

$10 suggested donation

Come to Compost Class! Learn the basics of home composting and turn yard & food waste into black gold for your garden. Composting satisfies our need to be environmentally friendly in our own back yards.  Class participants are eligible to win a free Cascadia Composter. Instructor: Bobbie Morgan, Natural Landscapes Project. Please pre-register at 360-297-2876 or info@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org.

TOXINS WE ALL LIVE WITH

Thursday, June 26 -- 7 pm

at the Kingston Fire Hall (26442 Miller Bay Road)

$10 Donation

Learn about the toxins we all live with daily and carry in our bodies, and how these toxins also affect the natural systems around us. Get natural health solutions from Dr. Sunny Gill, from Kingston Crossing Chiropractic.  

GRAFTING FRUIT TREES

postponed - call for more information

at Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road; Kingston)

$30/person, $45/couple

Local expert Chuck Estin will demonstrate grafting techniques on Stillwaters' trees.

DISCOVERY PACKS NOW AVAILABLE

Monday-Friday, 10 am – 6 pm; weekends by appointment

at Stillwaters Environmental Center (26059 Barber Cut Off Road; Kingston)

$5/each -- for 2 hour rental 

For more information, click here.

MONITORING TEAM OPENINGS AVAILABLE

Is water monitoring in your future? The Cutthroats of Carpenter Creek Stream & Estuary Monitoring Team has a few openings. The creek is monitored at four sites on one Sunday every month. The Estuary Team monitors the salt marsh, estuary, cove and marina, also on one Sunday a month.

Each monitor’s commitment is for 1 - 2 hours on that Sunday. All monitors are trained and supervised by the Kitsap County Stream Team, a program of Kitsap Surface and Storm Water Management.

You don’t need an extensive science background to learn to do these tests. Monitors are trained “on the job” and in annual training updates by the County and Sea Grant staff.

Contact Joleen at Stillwaters for more information at 297-2876. See you on the stream!!!

You must pre-register for all classes. Contact Joleen Palmer, Stillwaters Program Director at 360-297-2876 or Joleen@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org.