Posts Tagged ‘Sustainability’

Don’t Pass Up the Seattle Green Festival – Get In Free!

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

On Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 6pm I’ll be speaking at the Seattle Green Festival at the Local Food and Farming Pavilion. Throughout the weekend, the Green Festival is bringing an amazing array of speakers to educate our community on any number of environmentally conscious topics.

Delicious and Beautiful Purple Cabbage

Delicious and Beautiful Purple Cabbage

For my own part, I’ll be discussing ways individuals can work at a grassroots level to grow food, develop community gardens, and grow and distribute food and food crops to those in need. Too, I’ll share proven, beautiful ways to incorporate food into your own home garden.

The Green Festival organizers have offered a generous number of free passes to me to distribute. If you would like to attend my seminar or if you would just like to stroll through the vendors or catch any of the other speakers over the weekend, please let me know in the comment section below (on this page only). Please share why the Green Festival is important to you or share what “green” tech you’re interested in exploring at the festival or let us know what you’ve enjoyed at prior Green Festival events. Be sure to provide an email address in your post or other way I can contact you to let you know if you have been selected for a free pass. I will review requests until I either run out of passes or until just prior to the event on June 5th. So, submit early!

(Fine Print: No cash value. Nothing other than the free passes offered to me by Seattle Green Festival are offered. And, there’s no guarantee everyone will get a free pass.)

More on the event itself:

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Blog Action Day 2009 Focusing on Climate Change

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Today, March 22, 2010 is World Water Day as designated by the UN in 1992. Last year for Blog Action Day, I shared the following post celebrating this precious resource. Today, as we celebrate a natural resource we can not do without. As the Pacific Northwest is looking at low snow pack and potential drought, I reflect – again – on water: (more…)

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Garden Coach on Community Supported Agriculture Programs

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I’m so appreciative to live in a part of the world where delicious, local, organic, sustainable agriculture is readily available to me. Each week, year-round, I can visit any number of farmer’s markets in the greater Seattle area any day of the week. Not only can I purchase fruits and veggies, but whole grains, fresh fish, delicious meats, eggs, honey and all sorts of great dairy are offered in these fun, friendly environments. Sure, offerings get a little spotty in winter, but the point is, they’re still available. And this time of year, summer? Well, the smorgasbord is unbelievable.

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Summer Run Farm Stand at the Ballard Farmer's Market

Last summer, a year when my own garden harvest was less than ideal, I found myself buying loads of fresh veggies each week to eat and even more food to preserve for winter. As I was filling up bag after bag of potatoes from one of my favorite vendors, Summer Run Farm, I spied farmer Cathryn’s sign up form for her 2009 Farm Girl Collective CSA program. In the end, after watching one of her 2008 clients empty his weekly box into his bicycle bags and seeing all the great food he was getting each week for what amounts to about $28, we signed up and prepaid for 2009 in October of 2008. By paying early in the year prior to pick up, our funds help the farmers get through winter, procure supplies, and make various repairs to their farms.  Even if you haven’t signed up for a CSA yet, many still accept members at pro-rated prices, mid-season. Read on for more details on CSA programs, where to find them, what comes in a CSA box, a lemon-blueberry cocktail recipe, and more…

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