Anacortes Senior College

Experience the joy and satisfaction that comes from growing your own food. Seed to Supper is a comprehensive veggie gardening class. It explores practical, low-cost techniques for building, planning, planting, maintaining and harvesting a successful garden. Students will learn how to site their garden, build healthy soil, and make compost. They will create planting maps for their desired veggies and small berries while learning which crops/varieties grow best in our climate. The course will teach how and why to rotate crops. Soil preparation, seed starting, and techniques for protecting early transplants will be included. How and when to fertilize is another topic covered. Students will learn to identify and manage common pests and plant diseases using the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Ideas for watering systems and weed management will be presented. And finally, a crop-by-crop guide for harvesting & storage is included.

Fall is an ideal time to plan next year’s garden.

Course Coordinator: Gail Beasley

Gail Beasley is a retired Special Education teacher with degrees from the University of New Mexico and University of Oregon. After retiring from a 30 year career in Special Education, Gail finally had time to pursue her true interests – plants and gardening. Her garden experiences track back to 4-H and learning from parents and grandparents who survived Great Depression times by growing much of their own food.

In 2011 Gail became a Master Gardener in Oregon and continued in Skagit County since 2017. She taught this course previously to inmates at the Inverness Jail in Portland. Here in Anacortes, she frequently volunteers at the Skagit Master Gardeners Plant Clinic at the Farmers Market.