Following up on two successful community work parties earlier this summer, the Green Lake Elementary School Garden Club again invites the community to lend a hand at the school’s Olallie Native Garden. Green Lake Elementary parents are using funding from the City of Seattle’s Neighborhood Matching Fund to improve the existing garden by making it [...]

From Adam and Eve’s fig leaves to the Marlboro Man, humans have a long tradition of using plants for their own devices. Agriculture, medicine, pleasure drugs and poisons are just some of the fascinating ways, but I’m talking here  about sculpting plants. For some reason, we just can’t leave them au naturelle.  We need to [...]

The Woodland Park Zoo (750 N 50th St) wrote to tell us that “Dr. Doo, also known as the ‘Prince of Poo,’ the ‘GM of BM’ or the ‘Grand Poopah,’ is gearing up for the annual Fall Fecal Fest.” This is the time of year when local gardeners and Zoo Doo loyalists scramble to purchase [...]

Permaculture educator Marisha Auerbach is bringing her “Seedsaving as an Activist Practice” workshop to Green Lake.  A seed exchange will follow the presentation. The workshop is tomorrow night (Saturday, August 21, 2010), 7-9 p.m., at Yogalife’s Greenlake Studio (7200 Woodlawn Ave NE).  The cost is $7 – $10 (sliding scale).  Participants are asked to bring [...]

Even summer isn’t supposed to be this lazy.  Each morning, I head into the garden, revved up to work.  I deadhead a few calendulas and alyssum (usually with my fist, as I’ve forgotten my pruners as usual.)  I snag a blade of crabgrass sneaking up through some lavender, and some more encroaching on the lettuce. [...]