Wallingford, Seattle

moss / garden

(Ed. Note: Wallyhood welcomes Jeanie Taylor as our new contributing writer, focusing on gardening. Jeanie owns Taylor Gardens, a gardening coaching service and Wallyhood sponsor, holds a B.S. in Botany, an M.S. in Conservation Biology , and teaches workshops for home gardeners on propagation and sustainable gardening. If you have questions on gardening, please e-mail her at [email protected] and she'll try to answer them here. Welcome, Jeanie!) Welcome to the inaugural Wallyhood Garden Questions column. I am pleased to be taking questions that will…

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What in the Wallingford

Last week's What in the Wallingford turned out to be a puzzler, with only one correct answer! Here's the photo we showed on the left and the full image on the right: No, it's not a detail from the mural on the side of the Blue Star, Golden Oldies or Kabul (who knew we had so many murals in this neighborhood?), it's a bit of guerilla art from the side of Bandolero. Who painted it? We don't know, and neither did…

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One More CSA

Last week we provided a comprehensive list of CSA's that deliver to Wallingford. Since publication (and perhaps because of publication?), there's one more: Oxbow Farms now delivers to Wallingford as well. We've updated the original CSA's that deliver to Wallingford post with the deets. We've also added a link to that post to our Wallingford Resources page, and vow to keep it up to date for eternity!

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Food Swap

Do you cook, bake, can, jar, grow, distill, brew, shepherd or summon? Do you, perhaps, cook, bake, can, etc. too much? Interested in swapping some of what you got for some of what someone else has baked, canned, jarred, grown, etc? Then come on out to the first ever Wallyhood Food Swap on Saturday, April 16th at 2 pm! Here's how it works: Participants bring something or somethings they've made Everyone's items are placed on tables where they can be viewed, alongside…

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Ivar’s Birthday

Ivar’s is celebrating the 106th birthday of its "flounder", Ivar Haglund, today (Tuesday) with a special meal deal: buy an entree, get a second entrée for $1.06 (and yep, that goes for their $20+ entrees, as well). Ivar was a man after our own heart, well-known for his pranks and shenanigans. Says his promotional materials: Ivar Johan Haglund was born to Swedish and Norwegian parents, Johan Ivar and Daisey Maud, in West Seattle in 1905. Performing came naturally to Ivar, and he…

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Stoneway Village construction update

Have you seen that huge white crane in the "pit" this morning?  I did, and as I drove past I was struck by how many people were taking pictures.  It's like a little fan club down there!  A big thanks goes out to readers Adam and John for sending some photos to us.  We've added them to the slideshow below, along with a few shots from the developers. If you’re reading this in e-mail, you’ll have to click to our web…

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Project ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor’

With a name like that, how can you resist, right? Wait til you hear the rest of the story. Lower Wallingford resident and pruning specialist Mike King, also known as Pruning Man, is injured and unable to work.  His neighbors want to help him stay in the 'hood & get back up on the ladder, so they hosted a rent party on Saturday night (sorry!  we couldn't advertise because it was over capacity as soon as it was planned!).  It's too…

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