In this class, we'll learn about soil amendments and fertilizers for organic gardening and how to use them. What is NPK on that fertilizer box? What is biochar? Come and find out with expert Bill Peregrine of Earthdance Organics and Dancing Spirits Farm. Bill has distilled everything he’s learned more than 40 years in horticulture into a clear, practical framework: The 3 Pillars of Healthy Soil. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-soil-amendments-101-with-bill-pelegrine-tickets-1988860728979?aff=oddtdtcreator

Grow your own healthy, organic food in small spaces suited to your landscape. In this class, we’ll discuss creative solutions for small spaces and how container gardening can be a great option for beginners, apartment dwellers, and anyone looking to add extra space or variety to their garden. This class will discuss how to grow herbs, small fruits, and summer veggies. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-small-space-food-gardening-tickets-1357769959499?aff=oddtdtcreator

Got fruit trees? Got buggy apples? Did you know that you can get better harvests and keep pests out of them by thinning the fruit and then netting the whole tree? Come and learn how it’s done! Avoid nasty pesticides! Our friends from City Fruit will be leading this hands on workshop while we net the Shark Garden’s orchard apples and pears. Our p-patch gardeners can count this workshop towards their volunteer hours. Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-workshop-thinning-netting-fruit-trees-tickets-1987648803076?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Did you know that many common garden weeds are edible? Join us to learn which ones and to try a couple of tasty recipes with instructor Cheryl Wheeler. We'll go over several interesting edible weeds and see if we can find some in the Shark Garden for show and tell too. Cheryl Wheeler is author of the Foraging in Seattle Cookbook. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-foraging-cooking-weeds-with-cheryl-wheeler-tickets-1987646480128?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join the King Conservation District to better understand your home and garden soil! We'll cover the basics of soil health, practices to improve your soil, and how to take a soil test. We'll also discuss soil contamination and healthy actions you can take to keep you and your family safe in the garden. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-soil-life-health-with-king-conservation-district-tickets-1987647491152?aff=oddtdtcreator

Our Spring Open House includes a fundraiser sale, spring vegetable starts, and tables hosted by partner organizations. We will also be doing free instant soil tests with the Dept. of Ecology. We’ll have lots of tasty treats, plants, starts,  gift ideas, and more! Join us to kick off the season! As always, volunteers get to shop first! 😊 Want to volunteer?: Info@sharkgarden.org

Drop in and join us! We’ll be working on a variety of garden projects. No experience needed, just sign in when you arrive. We have all the gloves and tools needed. Bring a water bottle and layered clothes as needed. Closed toed shoes strongly recommended.

Join us to learn more about growing your own medicinal plants, inspired by our First Aid Garden. Nicole Telkes runs the gardens at Bastyr University’s herbal medicine program. She’ll give us a good introduction to some easy to grow plant medicines and a bit on how to prepare them for use.  We'll go over about ten plants that you can grow to create your own backyard pharmacy. We have 25 slots open and you can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-first-aid-garden-plants-with-nicole-telkes-tickets-1987098695690?aff=oddtdtcreator

Curious how to propagate your plants to make more of them for free? In this beginner’s class, we’ll be looking at several ways to multiply your plant supply including stem cuttings, layering, dividing, and air layering. We’ll be focusing on food plants and herbs, but these techniques can be used for many other plants in your garden. Participants will be able to take home a start of an herb or berry plant that they prepare.  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beginners-plant-propagation-with-taryn-koerker-tickets-1985866769967?aff=oddtdtcreator

Interesting in becoming a volunteer in the Shark Garden? Join us for our spring Volunteer Orientation tour. We’ll tour the garden and go over this season’s projects and programs as well as explaining general volunteer activities. Join us! Questions? Info@sharkgarden.org

Join us for an introduction to pruning berries and vines for better harvests! Our friends form City Fruit are returning to teach us pruning basics and then we’ll tour the garden to see demonstrations on various berries as well as kiwis and grapes. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-intro-to-berry-vine-pruning-tickets-1983585507650?aff=oddtdtcreator

This is our final sale of the year to raise funds for the garden. We’ll have more new flavors made from the items we’re still harvesting from the garden now. The tomato-based items, fall berries like elderberry & autumn olives, kiwis, and pears will be among the flavors for fall. We may have some more pickles and herbs too. Gabby will be bringing more honey. Our volunteers are also going to be making more jewelry for the holiday sale. It’s in the parking lot, so you can just drive right up. 😊Let me know if you can help make items or volunteer during the sale. Info@sharkgarden.org

Green Tomato Processing Party (in West Seattle): We could use a few volunteers to help out in the commercial kitchen in West Seattle with Chef Nelligan. We’re going to be making and canning sauces & salsa verde with the green tomatoes for our Holiday Sale (Oct. 25th). We’re going to start at 4 pm. Shoot me an email for more details: info@sharkgarden.org

Foraging Fall Fungi with fun guy Jake Harris: Jake Harris from Stone Soup Gardens is back for a class about foraging fall mushrooms. This class focuses on foraging, but we may have time to also check out our mushroom growing project in the Shark Garden. Jake brings lots of examples of local mushrooms to forage and it’s a fun class. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-foraging-fall-fungi-with-jake-harris-tickets-1716813739109?aff=oddtdtcreator

Easy Peasy Edibles: Growing a Food Forest

Do you want to grow your own food but find it is too much work and takes too much time? Learn basic permaculture concepts that employ design strategies from nature, so you can grow easy peasy edibles which are low maintenance, resilient and sustainable.  Plant and enjoy the harvest from your edible landscape for years to come! Our instructor, Jessi Bloom, is a local author and landscape designer expert in sustainable gardens. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-easy-peasy-edibles-growing-a-food-forest-with-jessi-bloom-tickets-1716816738079?aff=oddtdtcreator

Volunteer Work Party to make more sale items (in West Seattle): We could use two to four volunteers to help out in the commercial kitchen in West Seattle with Chef Nelligan. We’re going to be making and canning more jams/jellies/sauces for our Holiday Sale (Oct. 25th). We’re also going to do one on Oct. 21st. We need more folks to help with the tomatoes on the 21st. Shoot me an email for more details: info@sharkgarden.org

Curious about fermentation? Chef David Glass returns to teach us the basics as he shows us how to make a basic sauerkraut, a fermented salsa, and fermented veggies. We’ll have a kimchi too, if time allows and lots of things to taste. Chef Glass is the chef for the Seattle Sounders and has a long history in fine dining restaurants, including Michelin stared ones. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-fermentation-101-with-chef-david-glass-tickets-1716811171429?aff=oddtdtcreator

Learn how to make your own medicinal teas from the garden with expert Nicole Telkes from the Bastyr University herbal medicine program. Nicole runs the gardens at Bastyr and she’ll be showing us some recipes for herbal teas to keep us healthy this fall. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-intro-to-medicinal-herbal-teas-tickets-1689311810099?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for a volunteer work party in the garden to celebrate Orca Recovery Day.  The Weed Warriors Nature Stewards will be leading volunteers for projects in the garden, weeding, mulching, and more! Join us! Sign in with Grace when you arrive. If you’re one of our p-patch folks who needs more volunteer hours, this is a great opportunity.

Join us to shop with local artists and listen to live music in the garden! There will also be art activities for kids and the Shark Garden will have things for sale to fundraise for our programs. If you’re an artists who wants to participate the booth fee to participate is $50. Contact Grace Stiller for questions or more information: Email: burienarts@gmail.com or gracestiller@gmail.com

Join us for our fall fundraiser sale! We're raising money to keep the Shark Garden going next year with more free programs for you. Funding is extra tight these days! We could really use your support! We have tons of great gift ideas too!
Come shop for gourmet goodies made from the garden produce and by our dedicated volunteers. Sale items include: jams, jellies, sauces, herb salts, pickles, honey, baked goods, jewelry, and more! We'll have a raffle with cool prizes, the Master Gardeners on site to answer questions, ice cream, vendors for plants and garden items, local nonprofits, and fun for the whole family.
City Fruit will be there to give away free fruit and to do apple cider pressing, so bring a container for cider and help out cranking the press! (You're also welcome to bring apples from home to press if you want.) Our friends from Wanderlust Nursery and Nobody Nursery will also be there to sell plants. Join us! Lots of Free Parking!
To donate items to the sale or raffle, bake for us, help make things, or volunteer, email us: info@sharkgarden.org

THIS IS THE RESCHEDULED CLASS FROM 8/16/23 Chef David Glass (chef for the Seattle Sounders) returns to teach us all about knife skills from which knives are used for which tasks to how to cut up a wide variety of produce. This class is really fun and helpful for home cooks! Impress your friends with some new moves in the kitchen. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-knife-skills-101-with-chef-david-glass-tickets-1596560688999?aff=oddtdtcreator

Curious about all those interesting Asian vegetables that you see at the store or in your favorite dishes? Learn about a bunch of them and how they are used in various Asian cultures with our instructors Dao and Alex. Get to taste some of the veggies too! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-intro-to-asian-vegetables-tickets-1545771657639?aff=oddtdtcreator

CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER In this family friendly art class, our instructor Gabee will show us how to trace the shadows of plants and then paint them in. If the sun isn’t out, we’ll have an art collage activity instead with seed catalogs. This class is sponsored by Burien Arts Association, 4Culture, and Arts Washington. Please register your kids too, so that we know how many supplies to bring. :)

Interested in foraging in the PNW? Join us for this intro to foraging class with Jo Stormer from Nobody Nursery (rare native plants) in Des Moines. Jo will walk us through the Native Plant Garden in the Shark Garden and discuss some of the edible plants in our collection. Our collection has over 50 species, so we’ll just cover some of the more common ones. Jo “Cirque” Stormer (they/them) is a local native plant horticulturalist whose obsession with our region’s flora began as a forager with a particular focus on backcountry survival sustenance. Today, Cirque runs Nobody Nursery in Des Moines, promoting biodiversity by specializing in Washington natives that are otherwise commercially-unavailable. Cirque is an enthusiastic nerd for parsing out the science of foraging from the pseudoscience.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-foraging-for-native-plants-tickets-1545731046169?aff=oddtdtcreator

In this kids’ art class, our instructor Gabee will show us how to make bird feeders out of pine cones! It could be messy, but the birds don’t mind! We'll coat pinecones with peanut butter, seeds, and suet to help attract birds to your garden! Get creative as we decorate our feeders! Our instructor is Gabee Rafert, thanks to the support of Burien Arts Association, 4Culture, and ArtsWA. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-class-make-a-pinecone-bird-feeder-tickets-1468016539989?aff=oddtdtcreator