Whidbey Island Vineyard and Winery is an unexpected find in Langley, located south of downtown on Langley Road. The owners have been growing grapes there since 1989, and supplement them with other varieties from Washington’s Yakima Valley region. The winery includes a pleasant shop, […]
Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens is a 53 acre nature preserve and botanical garden in Greenbank. The concept began in the 1960s as private land partly sculpted by Ann and Max Meerkerk, who later bequeathed the gardens to the Seattle Rhododendron Society and it eventually transformed into the current non-profit […]
Deception Pass Tours is a fun new tour option in Deception Pass State Park, and is the result of a partnership between a private tour operator and the park. It’s a great way to see the Deception Pass Bridge as it passes 180 feet above your head, plus get a […]
Seattle’s 2008 Northwest Folklife Festival continued the tradition of more quality music than you can shake a stick, or didgeridoo, at. For four solid days all of the local stages and theaters had full schedules ranging from local folk to distant ethnic music, from hip hop and break […]
The Green Festival rolled into Seattle, and was it ever crowded! Lots of interest, sometimes packed shoulder to shoulder walking down aisles. The food was a bit pricey and there was the usual array of feel-good trendy eco-consumerism rampant throughout, yet there were also interesting examples of home construction products, […]
Eli led an informal rocket stove design and construction workshop at his Ancient Earth School of Natural Building in Freeland. The rocket stove was designed to warm the plaster-coated earthbag construction studio on his property, and the stove was about half completed over the weekend.
The primary advantages of rocket stoves: […]
