Every summer there is a series of table to farm dinners to benefit Sno Valley Tilth. They take place at member farms and have volunteer chefs prepare the meals for around 100 people. Last summer was the first we had heard about them but we opted to go to the Taste from the Garden dinners… Read More Sno Valley Tilth Table to Farm Dinner
So you want to set up a honeybee hive in your backyard? Be sure to do your research before you delve in. It’s not a set up and forget about it hobby. Beehives require regular inspections and are an investment. You should consider getting at least two hives initially. Having two hives helps you determine… Read More Beekeeping 101
They just started offering Peach lunch delivery at my office in Redmond. I had never heard of it before the announcement that it was coming the week before. After looking the company up, I discovered it launched in the summer of 2014, started by a few ex-Amazon engineers. They aren’t the first restaurant delivery service… Read More Peach Delivery
Our favorite local winery put on a wine maker’s dinner at their home/winery atop High Rock in Monroe. There’s not a wine of theirs that I haven’t liked. We joined four other couples for a four course meal paired with a variety of Gregarious Cellars wines. We all picked out name tags which had various… Read More Gregarious Wine Maker’s Dinner
This is my first year planting kale however did have one variety (red russian) in the garden when I moved into the house last summer and it seemed to grow well. The previous owners of the house did not thin out the rows so they were pretty tightly packed. I’ll be giving them much… Read More This Year’s Kale Varieties
Going from a teenie garden to a big one has made me go a little overboard on planting stuff. Even after adding two additional beds to the six I already had, it seems I don’t have enough room for all I want to plant. I used to plant typically 2 tomato plants in a container… Read More This Year’s Tomato Varieties
It’s been a few years since we’ve been to the annual Northwest Flower and Garden Show at the Convention Center in Seattle and decided we were due for a visit. We ended up parking on the street with a 2 hour limit which meant we had to spend our time at the show wisely. We… Read More 2015 Northwest Flower and Garden Show
