WFC (Whatcom Farmers Cooperative) stores officially re-open their garden centers on Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendors will be on site at each county location to provide information and help with questions. The schedule includes: Bellingham True Value (Meridian), lawn and garden products; Blaine Ace and Fairhaven True Value (organic fertilizers);
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by Bruce Vilders Being a beekeeper I get asked a lot of questions; How are the bees doing? What’s causing Colony Collapse Disorder? Do I have honey to sell? But the one question that is almost always asked, often times quietly and with a little trepidation, is “Do you ever get stung?” Umm, that would
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This section includes news bits from local farms, restaurants, businesses, schools and community organizations. So, here’s the local dirt this month… The Whatcom County Youth Fair celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, scheduled for April 5-6. They are holding a youth t-shirt contest and accepting submissions. The winning entry will be used for this year’s
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“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.” –Maya Angelou The countdown begins. It is Halloween as I write this, and our 6-year-old son is asking how many more days til Christmas. (For the record, it’s 55, as of press time. His response: “Oh man! Why not
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“Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.” –Unknown A lot can change in a year, or two. With this issue, we celebrate two years of Grow Northwest. We want to thank all of you for supporting this publication. We like to say we’re 100 percent locally grown, because we truly are.
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by Cameron Deuel The Book Fare Cafe, located in Village Books in Fairhaven, serves as a cozy nook for bookworms to embark on their literary splendor while enjoying light, local fare. Owner and chef Charles Claassen focuses on incorporating local ingredients into the menu, which changes each season. Claassen, who has a lifelong passion for
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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” -Kahlil Gibran I have dirty feet. The kind of dirty, summer, gardening feet a lot of folks have this time of year. No matter how much I scrub, some of the dirt is there to
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by Shona Hilton My internal compass has always been set North by Northwest. In fact I have always assumed we would end up in Alaska. So you can imagine my surprise when the Fates decided to pull a fast one and send us East over the Cascades to live in Okanogan County near Tonasket. Yup,
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by Shona Hilton I was going to write this time around about foraging for our dinner. Well scratch that idea for now. I want to give a shout out to the rural spirit of this top left hand corner of the US of A. A little earlier this year I had the pleasure of being
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by Shona Hilton “I am just going outside and may be some time.” Immortal words uttered by the not-so-immortal Captain Oates of Scott’s ill-fated South Pole trip – and words used often in our house when someone has cabin fever and needs to get out before their head explodes or something equally unpleasant. Being outside,
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