Feeling a bit garden shy? Not sure your thumb is green enough? Jenny Pell of PermaCulture Now is offering a two-day, intensive class to learn you right: Design and Plant an Urban Edible Yard When: April 17 - 18, 10 - 5 both days Cost: $195, some work trade available (offer something to barter!) Teachers: Jenny Pell and Marisha Auerbach Imagine transforming an urban lawn into an abundant garden in a weekend! Join us and learn: - Design techniques to quickly…
Don’t you love it when life gives you second chances? Seattle Tilth held an Early Season Edible Plant Sale last weekend at Magnuson Park. After all the standard weekend errands, I looked at my watch around 2:30 and thought, “YIKES! I’d better get over to the Tilth sale before all my favorite early spring veggies are gone . . .” Before I threw the little red wagon into the car, I hopped on the web to check the location. Wouldn't you…
Magnuson Park is outside our bailiwick, but we're big enough fans of the edible garden that we're going to post it anyway: Wallingford-based Seattle Tilth will be holding their first-ever Early Spring Edible Plant Sale this Saturday, March 20, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m at Magnuson Park, Hangar 30. If you want your pick of the choicest plants, head on over tonight, Friday from 5:30 - 7:00 pm for their Early Bird Sale. Sale benefits Seattle Tilth. Don't worry if you miss…
Sounds like there's some sorta eco-permaculture-organic boogaloo going on down at OmCulture (2210 N. Pacific St.) this Saturday, Feb 20th from 3 pm - 11 pm: Permaculture Now! Party and Dance You're invited to a Permaculture, SCALLOPS, EcoBuilder's Guild, Transition Towns extravaganza! This is your chance to: Showcase your project Learn about current projects in and around Seattle Connect with potential collaborators Have lots of fun networking Swap seeds Eat a delicious (local, organic) potluck dinner DANCE the night away on…
Seattle Tilth, housed in Wallingford's Good Shepherd Center, has a "dizzying" array of classes lined up for the next several months, on cold frames, goats, mushrooms, tools, perennial edibles and more. These classes do fill up, so if you're interested, sign up now. You're out of luck if you haven't signed up for the January 23rd Beekeeping 101 course yet, for example, but there's still time to sign up for the February 9th Beekeeping 101. They're also seeking a volunteer coordinator…
We know, what with the frigid temperature and all, gardens seem like a distant memory, a fragment of a dream that returns to you briefly in the shower, then slips away before you can grasp it. But the fine folks at Seattle Tilth are hard at work planning how they can help you gardens grow, and are looking for some opinions from you. Lisa writes: The Seattle Tilth Teaching Gardens have been at the Good Shepherd Center and Meridian Playground for…
This one came over the wire from Sustainable Wallingford, we thought we'd help throw a wider net: Last year, in a modest greenhouse near Gasworks Park, a hearty crew of Wallingford volunteers managed to grow thousands of organic veggie starts destined for several Seattle Community Gardens (read all about it). The resulting produce was ultimately delivered to food banks and we were proud to be part of the chain that helped feed our neighbors. We'd like to resume greenhouse production early…