Annual Roots Light Celebration Winter root soup … delicious organic bread with butter … hot cider … a warm fire … Gifts of the abundant earth from Islanders gardens, beautifully displayed on the porch, featuring herbs, seeds, mushrooms, dried flowers, gourds, and carved pumpkins. We are always amazed by the generosity of this community, and…
ACA Health Insurance Open Enrollment
By Hilary Emmer ACA Health Insurance Open EnrollmentSign-Up Re-NewKing County Public Health is Here to Help!! Dates: Wednesday: November 16th 1pm – 3pm Saturday: December 3rd Noon – 3pm Wednesday: December 21st 1pm – 3pm Saturday: January 7th Noon – 3pm Wednesday: January 18th 1pm – 3pm All Dates are at the Vashon Library (inside…
Home Maintenance, Series #1 – What Goes in Must Come Out…
Many people who move to Vashon Island are unfamiliar with rural living and landowner responsibilities. Whether you’re from a small town, big city, or suburb, who provides your drinking water and manages your sewage matters only when the tap won’t work or the toilet floweth over! Here on the island, it’s a bit different. On…
How to Make Fertilizer “Tea” for Your Victory Garden!
By Blaz Fremont As if we needed any further reason to coax edible plants from Gaia, any reason more than exploding food inflation, our shrinking digital pellets, surrealist supply chains of melting toffee, and increasingly toxic shiny packets mislabeled as food in the fantastic fake emporiums of not-food. I offer you a humble recipe for…