Permaculture & Special Topics

Find out about foraging, mason bees, mushrooms, companion planting, herbal infusions and salves, creating a pet friendly garden, propagation, rain water harvesting/cisterns and more in these specialty classes.

Make Herbal Infusions is CANCELLED (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 140, Seattle, WA 98103 , from May 23, 2012 06:00 PM to May 23, 2012 08:00 PM)

Preserve your culinary and medicinal herbs to be used through the year.

Drip Irrigation Basics for the Home Gardener (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144, from May 24, 2012 06:30 PM to May 24, 2012 08:30 PM)

Learn how to dig in and get your spring and summer garden started right.

Drip Irrigation Basics for the Home Gardener (Sammamish (Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District, 1510 228th Ave SE), from Jun 02, 2012 10:00 AM to Jun 02, 2012 11:15 AM)

Learn how to dig in and get your spring and summer garden started right.

Drip Irrigation Basics for the Home Gardener (Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands; 5513 S Cloverdale St. Seattle, WA 98118, from Jun 14, 2012 06:30 PM to Jun 14, 2012 08:30 PM)

Learn how to dig in and get your spring and summer garden started right.

Propagation: Make More Plants (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Jun 16, 2012 10:00 AM to Jun 16, 2012 01:00 PM)

Get started propagating plants by learning the basic techniques in this class.

Make Herbal Salves (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 140, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Jul 11, 2012 06:00 PM to Jul 11, 2012 08:00 PM)

Learn to make healing salves from fresh and dried herbs in this hands-on class.

Prune Fruit Trees (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 04, 2012 02:00 PM to Aug 04, 2012 05:00 PM)

Prune your fruit tree and gain bountiful and delicious harvests with the skills you will learn from this class.

Build Unique Raised Beds (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 107, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 11, 2012 10:00 AM to Aug 11, 2012 01:00 PM)

Unique and innovative ways to create a raised vegetable garden.

Attract Beneficial Insects (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 16, 2012 06:00 PM to Aug 16, 2012 08:00 PM)

Meet a gallery of helpful insects and learn to distinguish good bugs from bad bugs in the garden.

Secrets of Companion Planting (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 107, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Aug 18, 2012 02:00 PM to Aug 18, 2012 04:00 PM)

Learn how to create a mutually beneficial edible plant community.

Permaculture Teacher Training Course (Red Barn Ranch 17601 Southeast Lake Moneysmith Road; Auburn, WA 98092, from Sep 08, 2012 09:00 AM to Sep 14, 2012 06:00 PM)

This permaculture teacher's course is a revolutionary new way of teaching solution based eco-social design concepts by applying the principles of Permaculture to the teaching of Permaculture.

Grow Perennial Edibles (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Sep 12, 2012 06:00 PM to Sep 12, 2012 08:00 PM)

Expand your edible landscape with perennial plants.

Prune Fruit Trees (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Oct 06, 2012 02:00 PM to Oct 06, 2012 05:00 PM)

Prune your fruit tree and gain bountiful and delicious harvests with the skills you will learn from this class.

Permaculture Design Certification Course (To be determined, from Oct 12, 2012 09:00 AM to Mar 08, 2013 05:30 PM)

Earn a certificate in this intensive permaculture design course.

Harvest the Rain – From Landscapes to Cisterns (Bradner Gardens Park; 1730 Bradner Place S., Seattle, WA 98144 , from Oct 13, 2012 02:00 PM to Oct 13, 2012 04:30 PM)

Collect rainwater to use in your home and garden while saving money and preventing storm water pollution.

Urban Weeds and Wild Foods – Part 1: Identify and Harvest (Seattle Tilth’s Learning Garden at the Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 , from Oct 20, 2012 12:00 PM to Oct 20, 2012 02:00 PM)

Identify and gather some of our city’s most common and delicious edible weeds.

Urban Weeds and Wild Foods – Part 2: Preparing for Your Table (Good Shepherd Center; 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Room 140, Seattle, WA 98103 , from Oct 20, 2012 03:00 PM to Oct 20, 2012 05:00 PM)

Cook and taste some of our city’s most common and delicious edible weeds.