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- Beginning Beekeeping
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Course fee: $115.00
Dates: 2/11/2025 - 3/11/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Pacific Time
Days: Tu
Sessions: 5
Room: Main Campus - Maier Hall E331
Instructor: Greg Butler, Mark Urnes
Refund Policy: FAQs & Policies
This 10-hour course will familiarize participants with the craft of beekeeping and includes how to plan for, obtain, and install your bees, what equipment and tools you will need, techniques to safely perform ongoing inspections and maintenance, and how to harvest various hive products. The course aims to develop insights into a range of fascinating keystone behaviors that will enhance your beekeeping success. If you have been thinking about becoming a beekeeper, or maybe have some experience and would like to advance your skills, or you are simply interested in indulging your interests, please join us.
Please note: This class will start one week later than previously advertised due to weather-related campus closure. See the updated schedule.
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- Self-Defense: Forks
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Course fee: $149.00
Dates: 2/11/2025 - 3/11/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Pacific Time
Days: Tu
Sessions: 5
Room: FK106-Forks Campus
Instructor: Jason Earls
Refund Policy: FAQs & Policies
Join us on the Forks Campus for this Self-Defense series. Build confidence, fitness and reflexes over five weekly classes. The class will consist of kicking, punching, ground survival, escape from chokes, escape from grabs, and conversations about preparation.
Focus mitts are provided. Students can bring their own striking/grappling gloves to cover their knuckles.
Please note: This class will start one week later than previously advertised due to weather-related campus closure. See the updated schedule.
Students should wear clothes comfortable for exercise and a reusable water bottle.
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- Growing Mushrooms at Home
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Course fee: $115.00
Dates: 3/5/2025 - 3/19/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Pacific Time
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Room: Keegan Hall M213-Main Campus
Instructor: David Rogers
Refund Policy: FAQs & Policies
Learn the basics of at-home mushroom cultivation from basic lab work techniques to fruiting conditions and harvesting. Course will include a combination of demonstrations, lecture and workshops for hands-on experience. Over three weeks, learn lab work and sterilization techniques, pasteurization methods and substrate making, and fruiting conditions including best practices for harvesting your mushrooms.
Part 1: Sterilization: Set up a sterile environment for collecting spores and put them in a growing medium. Learn to sterilize grain for inoculation.
Part 2: Pasteurization: Using sawdust or straw, learn hot water pasteurization techniques to build your grow kit.
Part 3: Fruiting and Harvesting: How to care for your grow kit to maximize harvest and best techniques for harvesting your mushrooms!
By the end of this course, students should have a basic understanding of mushroom cultivation and how to successfully grow mushrooms on their own at home.
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- Saving Birds With Acopian Bird Savers
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Course fee: $35.00
Dates: 3/18/2025 - 3/18/2025
Times: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Pacific Time
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Room: Keegan Hall M213-Main Campus
Instructor: Joseph Gish
Refund Policy: FAQs & Policies
Calling all bird enthusiasts! Did you know that windows in the U.S. cause over a billion bird fatalities each year? Join us to help make a difference! In this interactive, one-evening workshop, you'll learn practical steps to make your home a safe haven for migrating birds just in time for spring migration. All materials included.
We'll kick off with a short presentation on the importance of bird-safe spaces, followed by a hands-on demonstration of effective solutions. Then, roll up your sleeves as we work together to create Acopian bird savers - simple, effective tools you can install at home.
This workshop is less than two hours but will have a lasting impact on the birds visiting your yard. Let's come together to protect our feathered friends and make a safer world, one window at a time!
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will learn background information on the problem of bird strikes and be informed on how to make their homes safer for birds.
- Participants will learn how to make bird saving devices which can be installed on their windows at home.
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- Self-Defense: Forks
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Course fee: $99.00
Dates: 5/27/2025 - 6/17/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Pacific Time
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Room: FK106-Forks Campus
Instructor: Jason Earls
Refund Policy: FAQs & Policies
Join us on the Forks Campus for this Self-Defense series. Build confidence, fitness and reflexes over five weekly classes. The class will consist of kicking, punching, ground survival, escape from chokes, escape from grabs, and conversations about preparation.
Focus mitts are provided. Students can bring their own striking/grappling gloves to cover their knuckles.
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- Core Essentials: Understanding and Engaging Your Center
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Course fee: $135.00
Dates: 1/15/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Room: Keegan Hall M121-Main Campus
Instructor: Libby Scofield
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Call 360.417.5683 to register if class is not yet in session.
Discover the true function of your core beyond fitness. Learn how your functional, reflexive core is far more than a six pack. This course blends lecture and movement to explore which muscles make up your core, why alignment and spinal health are crucial, and how proper breathing mechanics contribute to long-term well-being. With hands-on practice and expert guidance, you'll learn how to effectively engage your core, improve your posture, and make choices that support lifelong core health.
Ideal for those looking to understand body mechanics, this class reveals how improved core function can alleviate back pain, pelvic floor issues, hernias, and other musculoskeletal aches. It also shows how breathing and alignment can enhance quality of life.
By the end of this course, participants should be able to tell when they are engaging their core successfully, improve breathing mechanics, and understand how daily choices impact long term core health. Participants will leave this course with a selection of exercises and lifestyle hacks that can contribute to better function and higher quality movement.
Students should bring a yoga mat and dress in comfortable clothing. There may be some yoga mats available for use.
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