This free sustainable gardening class is being offered by Stream Team and WSU’s Native Plant Salvage Project in Olympia. The workshop will teach design ideas to attract more birds, butterflies, amphibians, and beneficial insects to home landscapes while reducing maintenance headaches and protecting water resources. Other topics will include minimizing lawn, hardscaping ideas, and drought-tolerant plants. Participants will receive many free handouts to help them in creating more attractive and sustainable landscapes.

The workshop is free, but advanced registration is required. Contact WSU’s Native Plant Salvage Project at 360-754-3588 ext. 109 or nativeplantsalvage@gmail.com.

Earth day was last week and it got me thinking about going green locally, and how we can help. SPS Habitat has a number of ways to help you reduce your footprint and help out a great cause.

* Cans for Habitat

Recycling is great, but it is even better when the money goes to building simple, decent, affordable and environmentally friendly houses. Just drop your aluminum cans off to one of our Can Collection Houses and we will do the rest. To date we have recycled over 2,500 pounds of cans!

• The ReStore 210 Thurston Ave NE Downtown Olympia
• Lincoln Elem. School 213 21st Ave SE Olympia, WA

http://www.spshabitat.org/aboutus/cans.html

* The ReStore

Our new and used building supply store in downtown Olympia is the perfect place to go to keep things out of the landfill. Shop or donate because both are important. Last year, with your help, they diverted more then 150 tons of usable items from Thurston Co. landfills. All proceeds cover the cost of our alfiliate, so each monitary donation goes that much farther.

www.spshabitat.org/ReStore

*Cars for Habitat

As gas prices rise we are all starting to look at how much we drive and how we can cut back. If you have an old car sitting around that doesn't do anything but cost money maybe you should donate it to Cars for Habitat. For every car donated SPS Habitat gets money, in fact in March two cars were donated in our name!