An untidy garden can benefit birds and insects It’s that time of year when plants are turning brown as they complete their time with us after providing tasty food, medicine, and beauty throughout the summer months. Final harvests are being completed and thoughts turn to all the garden and yard clean-up we need to do, including herb beds. Often, we are eager to put the pruners and rake to work while we can still get out without getting completely soaked by the rain here in the Pacific Northwest. After all, preparing tidy herb beds and garden spaces for spring is what we’re supposed to do in the fall, right? Last…
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20th Anniversary BirdFest & BlueGrass Celebration
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge & Downtown Ridgefield WA October 4 & 5, 2019 Workshops, hikes and walks all catered to teach you how to use the Refuge. You can learn how to listen for bird species, identify plants, about the geology of the area, the peoples who came before us and still tend to the land, how to take photos of it all, paint the landscape, and much more. Sandhill Crane Tours Bluegrass Pickers Festival Audubon Wild Birds of Prey Naturalist Led Hikes Cultural Activities Big Canoe Tours Birders Marketplace Local Food and Business Booths 20th Anniversary Celebration on Oct. 4th at Ilani BirdFest events in town include- shopping, food, and…
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From Godzilla to Earthworm:
Re-envisioning the Ecological Footprint The “ecological footprint” has come to be a widely used term in the sustainability community. Mathis Wackernagel developed the concept as a measure of the demands made by human societies on the ecosystem—a larger footprint represents greater demands and therefore more strain on the Earth’s capacity to sustain the living systems upon which we all depend (and by “all” it is meant not just all humans but all our companions in the wondrous process of life). As such, the term in common usage carries something of a negative connotation. People think of their ecological footprint as a source of guilt, a sort of environmental original sin…
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Why We Should Worship the Ground We Walk On
It’s one of nature’s most perfect contradictions: a substance that is ubiquitous but unseen; humble but essential; surprisingly strong but profoundly fragile. It nurtures life and death; undergirds cities, forests, and oceans; and feeds all terrestrial life on Earth. It is a substance few people understand and most take for granted. Yet, it is arguably one of Earth’s most critical natural resources – and humans, quite literally, owe to it their very existence. From the food we eat to the clothes we wear to the air we breathe, humanity depends upon the dirt beneath our feet. Gardeners understand this intuitively; to them, the saying “cherish the soil” is gospel. But…
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5th Annual Pacific Women’s Herbal Conference
September 20-22, 2019 Vashon Island, WA Herbal Roots Ancestral Wisdom Over 40 Workshops & HerbWalks Featured Teachers Harvest Moon, Quinalt Elder and Thea Summer Deer, Herbalist A Lively MarketPlace Engaging social time 400 Acre Forest reserve 1.5 miles of beach on the Salish Sea An inter-generational, nourishing, engaging, integrated weekend For more info: www.pacificwomensherbalconference.com/
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The JUNK FOOD Effect
A new and important strain of research on CO2 and plant nutrition is now coming out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The Natural End Pledge: Preserving Natural Values
Natural End Map as a way to help people find providers who would help them have a more natural end.
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Pacific Women’s Herbal Conference
Join a village of wild women meeting once again in the forest at the edge of the Salish Sea. Learning, celebrating, connecting, transforming…
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Pacific Crest Trail Days
August 17-19, 2018 - Join us for PCT Days, an annual 3-day festival promoting outdoor recreation with a focus on hiking, camping and backpacking.
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Learn About the Birds and the Bees
“Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Landscape” is the focus of the 4th annual BEEvent Pollinator Conference. Saturday, March 3, 2018
