I've always been fascinated with sourdough. With regular bread, you've got your flour, your water and your yeast. The yeast comes in a powder from Fleischmann's or whomever, and it's yeast: you mix in with the flour and water, you wait for the little yeasties to eat the sugars in the flour, toot out some carbon dioxide bubbles to make your bread fluffy, and you're good to go, wherever you are. Same flour, same yeast, same bread, give or take. All…
The Tilth Edible Plant Sale is this weekend. Saturday and Sunday from 9am - 3pm at Meridian Parks , with early bird sale this afternoon from 5-7pm. Ellen added a great story to her running gardening column earlier this week. However, she buried the lead about the Edible Plant Sale. This sale has become a neighborhood tradition. The Tilth plant sale captures something unique to Seattle and our neighborhood. The sale prepares a 32 page pdf of all the edible plant starts that…
The poor farmer grows weeds. The fair farmer grows crops. The good farmer grows soil. -- Sarah Pellkofer; Founder and Chief Soil Scientist of Micraculture and Wallingford Resident Vegetable gardens are becoming increasingly popular in many city neighborhoods and Wallingford is no exception. Small home gardens provide not only fresh produce but also add beauty and biodiversity to our urban streetscapes. Soil quality in the city can be variable based on the history of excavation and construction for a site and…
May Day is an ancient holiday, dating back at least to the days of the Roman Republic, when it was celebrated as part of the Floralia celebration on April 27th. Obviously, they didn't call it May Day back then, both because it wasn't May and also because they spoke Latin. It can also be traced back to the Gaelic Beltane celebration, reaching back into the fog of pagan pre-history. Here in Seattle, several groups of Morris dancers have been celebrating this…
Many may assume with the possibility of zoning changes hanging in the air here in our neighborhood that developers might naturally choose to put a hold on their plans in the hopes that larger, taller buildings will be allowed on their lots in the near future. Indeed, that certainly seems to be the case at some properties. Back in August of last year, I wrote about the former Big Wheel Auto Parts building which is, at least for now, being used…
The annual Art in Bloom garden art and studio tour takes place this weekend – partly in our neighborhood. From their website: Looking for the perfect focal piece for your garden or home? Take a break from weeding to shop and talk with nearly 20 artists in a variety of media on this free, self-guided north Seattle garden art & studio tour April 28-29, 10 am to 5 pm. Bridget Culligan, a studio owner here in Wallingford who will be participating,…
The Seattle Police Department announced today that they have made an arrest in the homicide case of Wallingford community leader Lita Byrnes: SPD Homicide Detectives have arrested a 25-year-old man for the murder of his roommate, a 38-year-old woman, in Wallingford last month. The arrest in this complex case came after an extensive investigation, working in conjunction with the Washington State Crime Lab and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. The suspect was arrested early Thursday morning in Seattle and was…