2025 Classes
Cascade Water Alliance offers free gardening classes to help you have beautiful, healthy landscapes while using water efficiently.
Please click on the links below to register.
Irrigation & Soil Health
May 20 – Jessi Bloom – Hydrological Literacy: Rain water collection, Irrigation + more!
May 22 – IN-PERSON at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland – Hands-On Learning on Drip Irrigation
May 27 – Lisa Taylor – Cool Tools and Hot Tips About Watering Wisely
May 30 – Erica Browne – IN-PERSON at Bellevue Nursery – Your Best Tomato Year
Laying the Groundwork for Deep Roots
June 5 – IN-PERSON at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland – Hands on Learning on Composting Cascade
June 6 – Lisa Taylor – IN-PERSON at Gray Barn Nursery – Seven Ways to Water Wisely
June 10 – Ladd Smith – Soil Health/Mulch
June 17 – Lisa Taylor – Make Your Bed, Then Grow In It
June 24 – Erica Brown Grivas – Garden Here Now: Climate-Ready Gardening for Resilient Beauty
Summer Strolls and Garden Goals
July 24 – IN-PERSON at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland – Hands on Learning on Integrated Pest Management
Garden Walking Tours
Cascade offers free walking tours at local gardens led by gardening experts. Click the link below to register, and follow us on social media to learn about upcoming events.
Garden Walking Tours
June 27 – Jessi Bloom – Walk and Talk with Jessi Bloom through the Redmond Watershed
July 25 – Lisa Taylor – Walk and Talk with Lisa Taylor at the Pea Patch within Juel Park in Redmond
Cascade Gardener Class Resources
Below are learning materials provided by Cascade Gardener presenters:
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- Make Your Bed, Then Grow In It!
- Establishing Plants for the Dry Season
- Composting Yard and Food Waste at Home
- Growing Healthy Soil
- Make the Mulch of it
- Natural Yard Care
- Container Gardens for Food and Flavor
- How to Sneak Edibles into your Landscape
- Small Space Gardening: Growing More on a Tiny Footprint
- Small Garden: Big Impact
- Selecting & Establishing Plants for a Changing Climate
- Putting in a Kitchen Garden
- Ripping Out Your Lawn and Putting in a Garden, Part I
- Small Space Gardening
- Strategies for Veggie Gardening
- Color, Color, Color
- Indoor Growing
- Resources for First-Time Gardeners
- Favorite Northwest Plants
- Soil Squeeze and Soil Shake
- Getting Plants Off to a Great Start
- Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest
- Fabulous Fifteen Vegetables
- Problem Plants
- Perfect Plant Combos
- Heavenly H Plants
- Sustainable Gardening
- Irrigation and Effective Moisture Management
- Native Plant Pollinators
- Binetti’s Best Plants
- Resilient Food Gardens
- Gardening for Pollinators
- Native Plants for a Changing Climate
- Perfect Plant Combos for Every Garden
- Growing Vegetables When Water is Scarce
- Establishing Plants to Withstand Summer’s Dry Season
- Favorite Gardening Tools
- Everlasting Harvest – Year-Round Edible Gardening
- Pops of Color
Irrigation Assessments
Cascade offers free irrigation assessments for large properties like parks, school grounds, commercial, multifamily, and homeowner associations.
Natural Yard Care
Landscaping affects water quality and water supply. Many chemicals and lawn care methods can be harmful to people and plants and may pollute our water supply. To learn how to have an environmentally-friendly landscape, click the button below.
