Events

Extreme weather, gross economic disparities, traumatic political and social upheaval, loss of jobs and housing—these conditions are making the systems we rely on brittle and unreliable. Neighborhood networks are critical. Let's create our own safety network, starting with ourselves at home, expanding to our block, our neighborhood, our town, our island.

In the classroom and in the garden, you will engage with the complexity of GROWING. Develop a practice of paying attention, assessing, and adapting your actions. Sessions will be inside and out, and will involve physical activity. Monthly content will be driven by the needs of the garden. Every fourth Friday.

Coordination between groups and individuals working to remove organics from the garbage stream and compost locally. Come, help green Whidbey with the food and yard waste from our trash!

Put your hands in the soil, put some seeds in the ground, surround yourself with the sounds of nature and laughter of friends. And, learn how to grow great food! Want to learn how to re-invigorate a plot so that it grows great food? Come join us. Each week, we'll learn how to do something by doing it, we'll laugh, we'll unplug, and we'll remember how simultaneously vulnerable and resilient the land is (we are too, by the way).

Three-part series on growing the best vegetable crops for Whidbey taught by Anza Muenchow, 30 years experience. Improve your health, get sustainable, lower CO2, save money, have fun! Part 1: Getting Started: soil preparation, early crops.

Drop off reusables and hard to recycle items.

Join Master Gardeners for the annual Whidbey Gardening Workshop, featuring a full day of in-person gardening classes, hands-on learning, demonstrations, and garden focused Marketplace. Choose from over 40 classes.

Put your hands in the soil, put some seeds in the ground, surround yourself with the sounds of nature and laughter of friends. And, learn how to grow great food!

Drop off reusables and hard to recycle items.

Drop off reusables and hard to recycle items.

Sessions will cover meats, eggs, vegetables, herbs, and more: growing, harvesting, processing, storing/preserving. We will learn their nutritional profile, how to prepare them for maximum health benefits and flavor, and how climate change might affect them.

Three-part series on growing the best vegetable crops for Whidbey taught by Anza Muenchow, 30 years experience. Improve your health, get sustainable, lower CO2, save money, have fun! Part 2: Crop planning, transplanting, raised beds, pests.

Monthly meeting of the commission. See link for agenda and location.

In addition to sharing resources about ductless heat pumps, we will be providing subsidies for hot water and electric cooking which will further help decarbonize our region and strengthen our community in the face of the energy and climate challenges today and in the future.

Three-part series on growing the best vegetable crops for Whidbey taught by Anza Muenchow, 30 years experience. Improve your health, get sustainable, lower CO2, save money, have fun! Part 3: Plant families, best varieties, maximizing harvests.

Join us to celebrate Earth Day on Whidbey Island! We’ll have activities, immersive experiences, volunteer opportunities, and other ways to get involved in your island home.

Open house and fundraiser to show off clean eneregy improvements. WCA helped with funding and will have a booth.

Join South Whidbey Fire EMS and our partners in bringing our community together to inspire collaboration and create high functioning, resilient and disaster prepared neighborhoods on South Whidbey.