Conservation district offers natural landscaping course on Saturdays in October

The Clallam Conservation District is taking registrations for its fall Natural Landscaping course. The course includes three evening classes in Sequim and three Saturday field trips.

Utilizing Permaculture design principles, course participants receive step by step instruction on how to analyze their properties and develop landscape designs suited to each site’s unique ecological conditions. The course focuses on water conservation, wildlife habitat enhancement, stormwater management and low maintenance.

Evening classes will be on Thursdays, Oct. 8, 15 and 22 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road. Field trips will be on Saturday mornings, Oct. 10, 17 and 24.

To register, call the Clallam Conservation District at 775-3747 extension 5. The registration deadline is Oct. 5.

A $25 registration fee covers the cost of a binder of course materials, the WSU publication “Grow Your Own Native Landscape” and facilities rental.

Clallam Conservation District executive director Joe Holtrop is the course instructor. Holtrop has undergraduate and graduate degrees in landscape architecture and has been teaching classes on natural landscaping since 1990.