by Shona Hilton
“I give up.” Periodically I throw down the hay or hoe and declare I have had enough and am moving to a condo in Florida. This usually coincides with a particularly busy time of year when there are not enough hours left at the end of the day to finish the chores and
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by Amanda Meyer
Summer means two things to me: high country hiking and blueberries. Preferably together.
I love the great Northwest, this is my home. I wasn’t born here, but I feel at home here and this is where I will spend the rest of my days. Each year during the summer time, I feel blessed to
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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” —Margaret Atwood
Welcome to the premier issue of Grow Northwest, a new magazine celebrating local food, farms and community in northwest Washington. Like many local business owners, we love what we do! And like many families and residents in the Northwest, we
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by Bobbi Kelley
There is something amazing about the smell of spring. I am never able to quite describe the smell. It’s fresh and light. Pleasing and tantalizing. It seems to bring this feeling of urgency to me each year.
There is a need to get the strings up on my clothes line and put it to
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by Shona Hilton
“Rise and shine, because today the pigs die.”
These are the words which woke us last September on butchering day.  Our 6-year-old almost sounded as excited as a kid on Christmas, but along with this excitement was definitely some more mixed feelings – and that, to me, is the way it should be.
Like many,
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