4-Day Event!!!

Join the City of Sammamish and Sammamish Stewards for our Earth Day Celebration! We will be offering variety of activities and events from Thursday, April 22 through Sunday, April 25 where you can give back to the community, learn about great projects within our parks, let us know the earth-friendly things you’re doing at your residence and enjoy giveaways to use on Earth Day.  Activities and events will range from native plant and compost giveaway, self-guided and docent tours on actively worked sites, volunteer work events, family scavenger hunt, virtual educational workshops, links to other activities celebrating Earth Day and much more!

Native Plant, Compost and Seed Giveaway - Giveaways have all been reserved

•  Saturday, April 24 at Beaver Lake Lodge – 25101 SE 24th Street
• 10 am - 12 pm
• REGISTER! Pre-registration required to receive items.  
• Will be 3 booths provide from Sammamish Stewards, City of Sammamish, and Sammamish Botanical Gardens for information and giveaways. 
• Please wear facial covering.

The Sammamish Botanical Garden Society will be hosting a table at Beaver Lake Park. Stop by and learn about the Heritage Garden and pick up a free plant!

Self-guided tours at your convenience anytime during the event's 4 days.  Detail signs will be on site describing the great work volunteers have completed at these locations.

Download a copy of the Sammamish Walking Tour Guide:

 Volunteer Work Events

East Sammamish Park		Beaver Lake Park - (Lodge Side)		Beaver Lake Park - (Lodge Side)
Volunteer to help mulch and remove invasive plants at East Sammamish Park. Give back to your community, learn about native plants and enhance wildlife habitat!  Registration required to participate.		Volunteer to help remove invasive plants and prep the site for planting for next day (Saturday) at Beaver Lake Park (Lodge Side). Give back to your community, learn about native plants and enhance wildlife habitat!  Registration required to participate.		Volunteer to PLANT at Beaver Lake Park (Lodge Side). Give back to your community, learn about native plants and enhance wildlife habitat!  Registration required to participate.

Family Activities

• City Nature Challenge 2021 – Seattle-Tacoma Metro Area

• An Issaquah Highlands Adventure

• Scavenger Hunt at Beaver Lake Park

• Earth Day Story Time with Miss Sara, Sammamish Library - Yellow Kayak - courtesy of King County Library System (KCLS)

• WNPS Just for Kids
  Activity guides to get outside and discover native plants in your local ecosystem and coloring pages for kids to enjoy
  
  
• Snoqualmie Tribe - Celebration of Kokanee
  • Workbook
  • Coloring Activities
    
    

• Come on a Virtual Field Trip to the Cedar River and Tolt Watersheds:

  • Play the Forest to Faucet Game!
  • What is a Watershed?
  • Our Amazing Water Cycle
  • Where Does My Water Come From?
  • How Clean is My Water?

Educational Workshops and Links

Live Upcoming Webinars

• Support a Sustainable Earth with RainWise  
  April 20, 2021 at 6:00 pm 
  This webinar is for people in our region interested in adopting sustainable practices in their homes and yards including rain gardens.

• Native Pollinators: Garden & Habitat Restoration, with Julie O'Donald
  April 22, 2021 at 7:00 pm 
  Register in advance for this webinar
  
  

Recorded Webinars

• KCD native Plant Interactive Guide

• Nature’s Best Hope with Doug Tallamy 
  Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Doug Tallamy, an amazing ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife work and solutions for species decline. 

• Gardening with Native Plants with Marcia Rivers Smith 
  Learn the fundamentals of Gardening with Native Plants in lowland Western Washington, from the originator of this popular presentation, Marcia Smith.

• PNW Native Plants for the Garden by Andrea Ptak 
  Hosted by a local Master Urban Naturalist, this video can give anyone ideas to incorporate native plants and flowers into their home gardens.

• Identifying Native Plants with Sarah Gage 
  Let’s be clear, you won’t become an expert at plant identification just by attending this webinar! But you will learn about the tools botanists use and strategies for figuring out which plant is which.

Slide Show

• Lake Sammamish:  Restoring Culture and Life Back into an Urban Landscape

Gardening Classes

• The Garden Hotline Classes & Events 
  
  
• Healthy Soils 
  April 24, 2021 
  
  
• Composting 101 (Live Virtual Class) 
  April 29, 2021 
  
  
• Grow Great Tomatoes (Live Virtual Class) 
  May 8, 2021 
  
  
• Drip Irrigation for the Home Gardener (Live Virtual Class) 
  May 12, 2021 
  
  
• Secrets of Companion Planting (Live Virtual Class) 
  May 22, 2021 
  
  
• Plant Propagation for Beginners (Live Virtual Class) 
  May 27, 2021 
  
  
•  Growing Groceries 
  
  

Pollinators

 Pollinator Resources

Web Resources

• 2021 Native Plant Descriptions
  
  
• King County, Environmental education programs and resources
  
  
• Gardening for Pollinators Resource Links
  
  
• Rain Gardens 
  
  
• Living with Wildlife  
  
  • Nuisance wildlife 
    
    
  • Species fact sheets
    
    
  • Injured or orphaned wildlife
    
    
• Feeding wildlife, snag trees