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 t-shirt,
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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 tomorrow?”)
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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. We
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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 culinary arts,
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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 stay.
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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, the Hiltons
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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 the face
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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, in all
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by Shona Hilton
I love this time of year. From the autumn equinox right through to Twelfth night. Every season has its place in my affections but autumn and early winter win my heart hands down. First there comes a smattering of brightly colored leaves, the animals start growing winter coats and the hens lay a
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“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”
–Mary Anne Radmacher
I knew it was coming. So when that last box of the regular CSA season had been picked up, thoroughly inspected and the inside contents happily eaten, I knew then winter had arrived. Technically not yet here
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