Classes
Registration opens January 30th
Early Bird Pricing ends February 8th
Welcome to our Preliminary Class List!
Once again, we are putting together a great set of classes for you to choose from. There will be 40 class options in four sessions so finding a class to support your gardening interests or for advice on becoming a better gardener should be an easy task. Plus, our Make-n-Take classes are returning with four new classes to choose from.
Like last year, the 2026 Whidbey Island Workshop is highlighting one of the Master Gardener priorities. This year we are focusing on the Local Food priority-
Local Food:
We teach sustainable techniques for growing local food to improve individual & community health and wellness.
To support this priority, we have a series of classes that you will want to attend if you are interested in growing your own food or buying locally grown food.
* Indicates a new class for 2026
Master Gardener Priority Series
Year-Round Vegetable Calendar & Crop Rotation – Anza Muenchow
*Mixing Veggies into a Perennial Garden – Cathy Lofton-Day
*Vegetable Gardening in the PNW – Jim Olson
*Panel Discussion – Finding and Buying Locally Grown Food
Rachel Piggott – Island Harvest Farm
Dave Thomas & Deb Mitchell – Island County Master Gardeners
Judy Feldman – Organic Farm School
Make-n-Take
*Houseplant Propagation – Amanda Krass
*Air Plants – Lisa Phillips
*Seed Snails – Erica Grivas
*Starting Strawberries – Sue Gibson
Other Classes
*Figs – Dan Vorhis
Your Best Tomatoes Yet = Bill Thorness
*Brassicas – Sue Kraemer
Strawberries – Sue Gibson
*Roots and Rare Fruits – Margaret MacLeod
*Lavender – Tyler and Jenny Saltonstall
*Rhododendron Flower, Truss, and Leaf Types with a Side of Rhododendron Pruning – Ellen Alexander, June Davis, Barb Faville
*Winter Sowing and Propagation – Amanda Krass
Dahlias – Dave Thomas
*Spring and Summer Bulbs – Diana Wisen
The Organic Garbage Disposal: Worms – Bobbi Peskuric
Integrated Pest Management – Don Kraftt
Healthy Soil – Gary Ketcheson
How to Prune so You Don’t Have to Prune so Often – Christina Pfeiffer
How to Build a Self-Watering Raised Bed – Kim Baxter and Lisa Phillips
Midnight Marauders: Slugs and Snails – Diana Wisen
*Fruit Tree Pruning, Pests, and Diseases – Deb Mitchell
*Ground Covers: Planting in Layers to Create a Living Mulch – Tobey Nelson
*Gardening Under Mature Trees – Christina Pfeiffer
*Futurescaping: Ancient Wisdom meets Tomorrow’s Gardens – Erica Grivas
Basics of Garden Design – June Davis
*Exploring Windswept Forest: South Camano Island Native Plants – Idonna Pieper Nelson
Designing for Pollinators OR Climate Smart Garden Design – Tobey Nelson
*The Resilient Yard – Mike Peronto
*Vegetable Gardening with EASE – Laura Matson
Photography in the Garden – Cynthia Woerner
*Microclimates and Plant Ecophysiology and/or Climate Ready Plants – Amelia Keyser-Gibson
