SAVE THE DATE
for the Great Yards Get-Together:
Not your average backyard DIY event!

Have Fun, Learn Lots, Win Prizes

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Heritage Park  ♦  Olympia  ♦  September 10th

Do you have a lawn, yard or garden? Interested in learning how to save money and make it look like paradise? Do you like to win free stuff? Are food trucks your favorite weekend lunch?  If you answered yes to any of these, join us for the Great Yards Get Together! This is a free family friendly, event on Saturday, September 10th!

This community event will feature “how to” demonstrations and provide resources to help residents create beautiful and healthy lawns, yards and gardens. Learn from local experts how to save time and money using practices that are safe for people, pets and water.

Even if you don’t have a lawn or garden, we will share information about our collective backyard, Puget Sound, and the local natural resources we all share. The Great Yards Get-Together has something for everyone!

This event emphasizes individual actions that protect the health of our families, homes, local ecosystems and neighborhoods. Those actions include: practicing natural lawn care, growing organic food, composting, aerating soil, keeping bees, removing invasive weeds, supporting native wildlife, conserving water and installing a rain garden (let us know if we left anything out!).

Stop by our welcome booth to pick up your event passport to win prizes and sign up for the croquet tournament!!  Prizes include:

  • Native plants for the first 50 people to arrive
  • Starter drip irrigation kit
  • Free soil tests
  • Long-handled weeding tool
  • Residential landscape habitat consultation
  • Slow release fertilizer & lime
  • Many more giveaways

Can’t wait to see you there!

For more information about the Great Yards Get-Together, contact Susan McCleary at smccleary@ci.olympia.wa.us

Capitol Campus Sustainability Landscape Tour

As part of the Great Yards Get-Together, Brent Chapman, horticulturist for the Capitol Campus, will offer two tours of the Capitol Campus Grounds. Tours at 10:45 am & 12:15 pm will showcase the Campus’ sustainable landscape management practices.  Projects of interest include bioswales for stormwater runoff treatment, an ecolawn trial, use of cardboard and arborists’ chips for organic weed control, and the conversion of seasonal flower beds to perennials and honeybee hives at the Governor’s Mansion.  These practices can be recreated on any scale, from a large public park to a small townhouse garden. Bring your questions and walking shoes.

You can pre-register for the tours on the Stream Team website:http://www.streamteam.info/getinvolved/calendar/.
Or call Brent Chapman at 360-725-0018 for questions.
More information at:http://www.des.wa.gov/services/facilities/CapitolCampus/Pages/Capitol-Campus-Grounds.aspx

Create a beautiful and healthy lawn using Natural Lawn Care practices!