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From the Roasterie
“The coffee flavor manifests its characteristics through the land, the elements, and from the hearts of the people all along its way.” – Eva Within the coffee industry, there are many ways to describe the flavors of coffee. Hints of caramel, chocolate, or wine. Undertones of nuts, figs, or flowers. These fancy descriptors cannot capture…
Health Matters
The Wonders of Licorice
By Kathy Abascal Many of us love real licorice candy and enjoy licorice’s sweet flavor in various herbal teas. But few appreciate what an amazing and useful plant licorice is. Licorice has been used medicinally for thousands of years in both European and Asian traditions. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), licorice is considered harmonizing because…
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Medicinal Plants on Vashon – Cleavers
By Leigh Siergewicz When I first started learning about herbs, it was so exciting to find that the common weeds we see everywhere can be consumed for many benefits. After learning about cleavers, galium aparine, I can’t help but notice how abundant it is in spring. Cleavers are native to Europe, but have naturalized here. Cleavers…
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Assess, Move, Re-Assess
By Sandi Silagi In February 2015, after withdrawing from a golf tournament, Tiger Woods claimed, “My glutes are shutting off.” That was the “butt” of many jokes to come, but what is the reality?Initially, I thought, “Fire your trainer!” “Use your ground forces, use your feet!” “Channel Arnold Palmer!” But I was wrong. The chain…
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Father’s Day
By Daniel Hooker It’s Father’s Day. I remember being a father and why I tell dad jokes, and tell humorous stories. I studied psychology as an 18-year old in London, and worked/lived at an unfunded halfway house, called Cope House. There, I manned a Help/Suicide hotline two days a week, where humor and sharing stories…
Island Businesses
The Best-Kept Secret on Vashon
By Judy Mulhair Welcome to the AYH Ranch. I bought the land in 1970 and raised two boys, many sheep, goats, horses, and one cow named Hamburger. The orchard, gardens and livestock fed us well. As a United Airlines Flight Attendant, my first goal was to see the world, but this goal was put on…
Llaughing Llamas
Llaughing Llamas Chronicles
By Daniel Hooker A friend of mine is about to become a Catholic, and he told me he was starting to study the catechisms. And it just popped into my head: “What chases a catechism? – A dogma.” A friend said to me, “You really ought to do stand up comedy!”I answered, “At my age,…
Arrival Stories
What Brought You to the Island
By March Twisdale When we moved from West Seattle to Vashon Island, it was after a two-year search. We were looking for a rural environment with an eclectic homeschooling community, but every rural community in the region was almost exclusively religion-inspired. Concern that our children would be disconnected from both schooled kids and homeschooling families…