PORT ANGELES — Strategies for using slugs to work for one’s garden will be presented during Thursday’s edition of the free “Green Thumb Garden Tips” brown-bag series.
Cori Carlton, Thurston County Master Gardener Program coordinator, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. at the county courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
She will present her “Slug University,” discussing the benefits of native slugs, why non-native slugs eat plants, the stories slime trails tell and how slugs can work to benefit gardens.
Carlton has studied slugs for the past 23 years, an interest fed when she “moved to the mecca of the slug world, the Pacific Northwest,” the Clallam County Master Gardeners said.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and recreation/park administration from Central Michigan University.
She has held leadership positions in Michigan, Indiana and Washington over the past 19 years, including environmental education director for the Detroit and Seattle YMCAs and education program specialist for Northwest Trek Wildlife Park.
The brown-bag series is held the second and fourth Thursday of every month. It is sponsored by the Clallam County Master Gardeners.
On Thursday, Oct. 23, Dave Rambin will share ideas for enjoying harvested vegetables well into the new year.
Rambin completed Master Gardener training in 2012. A graduate of Northwestern State University, he has been gardening for the past 30 years in the Northwest.
Participants to the brown-bag series lectures are urged to bring a lunch.
For more information, phone 360-417-2279.