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Vote for KCD Board Supervisor
KCD is piloting a new technology this year to expand voting access to our election. We have partnered with King County Elections, Democracy Live, and Tusk Philanthropies to ensure an accessible election for all registered voters in our service area.
KCD Board members contribute local perspectives on important natural resource management and conservation issues, seek feedback about conservation programs from District residents, set KCD policy, and direct KCD’s work plan and budget.
You can vote now through February 11th!
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Native Plant Sale & Community Fair
The KCD Native Plant Sale & Community Fair is approaching fast! The online preorder deadline is March 4. We've still got some great plants, but quantities are diminishing. We will also have the walk-up sale again this year, but keep in mind that we can't guarantee quantity or variety so your best bet is to preorder.
The Community Fair is back this year, and we've got a great list of partners coming: DIRT Corps, Duwamish Alive Coalition, Elk Run Farm, Garden Cycles LLC, King County Noxious Weeds, King County Wastewater Treatment Center with CitySoil Farm and GroCo™, On the Grow Learning Truck, PCC Farmland Trust, Rain Dog Designs, Scarecrow’s Pride, S.H.A.D.O.W. Lake Nature Preserve, Stone Soup Gardens, Tadpole Haven Native Plants, Tilth Allliance, Washington Native Plant Society, Young Women Empowered, and more!
We’ll also have food trucks including Mocha Motion, A Fire Inside Pizza, and Patty Pan Cooperative.
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Women In Ag Conference Highlighted Mindfulness
Eighteen women farmers, ranchers and food system enthusiasts from King and Pierce counties participated in a one-day regional conference on Saturday, January 25, 2020 organized by WSU Extension. KCD’s Orca Conference Room served as the local site for the conference that had participating locations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California as well as Alaska and Hawaii! Over 700 women viewed presentations from a variety of speakers on topics and techniques that they have used to adapt and succeed in their farming operations.
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Where Do Bareroot Plants Come From?
KCD's Native Plant Sale and Community Fair offers mostly bareroot plants. Bareroot plants are affordable, hardy and easy to transport and plant. Most of our plants for the sale come from the Washington Association of Conservation Districts' Plant Materials Center in Bow, Washington which produces roughly 1.5 million native trees and shrubs from seed each year.
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2019 - 2020 WCC Crews
Each year, KCD hosts Washington Conservation Corps Crews to implement conservation projects across King County. Crewmembers deepen their understanding of native plants, restoration techniques, and stewardship best management practices through tending plants at KCD’s Native Plant Nursery and habitat improvement projects.
Meet the crew
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Thank You Volunteers
In 2019, 528 volunteers donated 1925 hours at over 40 events. The value of a KCD volunteer is immeasurable, but the value of their work this year is $31.72 per hour equaling more than $61,000 of donated work. This allows KCD to expand programs and projects, leading to more environmental health improvements.
Thank you to every volunteer, past and present, whose efforts have made our conservation goals possible. See current volunteer opportunities.
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Help KCD promote local food, healthy forests and clean water at the 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival February 26- March 1, 2020 at the Washington State Convention Center. As an ambassador, you'll help educate the public about local conservation efforts and get free entry to the Festival and earn plants from the KCD Native Plant Sale! This is a family-friendly volunteer opportunity, all ages are welcome!
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Spend a morning outside helping to maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County. Volunteers earn native plants that can be used to landscape their properties or donate to their favorite organization.
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Join KCD for a FREE native plant workshop. The talk will cover the countless benefits that native plants provide for landscape aesthetics, wildlife habitat, water quality and more! Attendees will get advice on the best ways to reduce plant mortality, save money and improve your landscape’s overall health & happiness.
Attendees will receive a $20 dollar discount for the KCD Native Plant Sale to purchase your own native plants.
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Help KCD promote local food, healthy forests and clean water at the 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival February 26- March 1, 2020 at the Washington State Convention Center. As an ambassador, you'll help educate the public about local conservation efforts and get free entry to the Festival and earn plants from the KCD Native Plant Sale! This is a family-friendly volunteer opportunity, all ages are welcome!
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Join King Conservation District staff with featured guest Siena from King County's South Treatment Plant for an educational and impactful volunteer event at our Native Plant Nursery in Renton. Spend a morning outside helping to maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County, as well as learning about recycled water and GroCo; how they are made, and how we use them at our native plant nursery
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Order your plants today for the KCD Native Plant Sale! Then join us on March 14th to pick up your plants and take advantage of our Community Fair!
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Spend a morning outside helping to maintain trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and aquatic plants for projects across King County. Volunteers earn native plants that can be used to landscape their properties or donate to their favorite organization.
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At King Conservation District, we’re all about Better Ground. Better Ground means taking important stewardship actions at home and in our communities to create healthy soil and water, to provide healthy food, and to conserve land, water, forests, wildlife and related natural resources. And you don’t have to go at it alone. You have a partner, your local conservation district.
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