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The museum has recently been gifted with a rare treasure; an 1898 Franklin Motorcycle!
Built by Franklin Iron Works of Mount Vernon, this is believed to be one of the first motorcycles ever built.

Join Certified Arborist and Consultant, Christina Pfeiffer as she explains different mulch materials and how they perform in the garden for weed suppression, aesthetics, and maintaining soil condition.  She will also explain how to use leaves and the different compost products to their best advantage and why weed barriers are a dead end.  Valuable information especially for all those folks who are compelled to scrape every last leaf out of their garden and leave the ground bare in the fall.

Although the focus on fall gardening is often preparing for winter, there are still plenty of lovely perennial blooms around to be enjoyed. Join Ani Gurni of Aulos Designs as she talks about great perennials that keep performing until frost.
 

Join Suzanne Butler as she demonstrates creative ideas for putting pumpkin on the plate. Suzanne was “Galloping Gourmet” Graham Kerr’s cooking assistant for many years and is a Culinary Arts instructor at Skagit Valley College.
 

Join Certified Low Impact Development Specialist, Zsofia Pazstor to learn about garden care and practices for fall and winter. A garden can keep producing all winter if the right steps are taken at the right time. And more than anything, gardens will be able to feed wildlife as well as people during winter if we allow it remain a habitat.

Got bats? If you want a healthy ecosystem, then the answer is “yes!” Back by popular demand, Kathleen Bander, founder of Bats Northwest, joins the fun of our Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival to talk about the 15 species of bats native to Washington. Learn about night-blooming plants attractive to the insects that Northwest bats eat. Get plans to build a bat house to put out next spring. Kids can get up close and personal with real mounted specimens