September 2024
The September articles have information that complements our October speaker, Gary Lewis, and support efforts by the City of Bellingham to promote natural yard care. Many thanks to Sandi Madison, WHS Publicity, for putting this together and for finding Sylvia Briggs, who will also be contributing to our newsletters.
Consider the Ground Cover
Introducing Sylvia! We’re happy to introduce Sylvia Briggs-Bauer as a new member of the Whatcom Horticultural Society and contributor to our newsletter. She is a 10th-grade student at Bellingham High School who caught our eye through her informative creation of the Columbia Neighborhood Nature News. We are excited to work with her! To find out more about…
Natural Yard Care
The city selected the topic “Natural Yard Care” to educate residents about the value of natural yard care techniques that protect our water quality as part of their 2019-2024 NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit process. They then narrowed their scope to managing weeds naturally. They began by developing and promoting the “Manage Weeds…
