Our work at Alleycat Acres Wetmore Garden project is still underway. Since this is a volunteer and community led job, we could use your help! Alleycat Acres hosts work parties at Wetmore the last Saturday of the month, which is this coming Saturday, May 27th from 10 am - 2 pm. Come on out and get your hands dirty and help create this awesome gathering space, garden plots, trails, and urban food forest.
Questions? Want to find out more? The Wetmore Community Farm is coordinated by Kyla Rudnick and community liaison Annalisa Moore. You can reach them here: Kyla@alleycat-acres.org and Annalisa@alleycat-acres.org. Volunteer work party at Wetmore Community Gardens Saturday, May 27th - 10 am - 2 pm Corner of Wetmore Ave S and S Estelle St, just off Rainier Ave S. (map) http://www.alleycat-acres.org/wetmore Our favorite event of the year is next weekend! Come buy some beautiful starts from Tilth, say hello to your Seattle community, and cuddle some chickens with Stone Soup Gardens. We'll be on site with our lovely flock o'birds who are just a flutter with the cuddling possibilities. Come and get your garden on. We can't wait to see you.
Walk-Up Sale
Saturday March 11, 2017 9 AM- 3 PM Location: King Conservation District (west parking lot) 1107 SW Grady Way Renton, WA 98057 Payment: Cash, Visa, Mastercard (sorry no checks) Plants Available for Purchase: http://kingcd.org/programs-native-walk-up-sale.htm Join us for the exciting reveal of Stone Soup Gardens' design options for the Wetmore Community Garden. Our designers will present 2-3 options for the community garden based on all the feedback we have received from the neighborhood. This is the last step before we finalize the design and submit it for permitting so we hope you can make it!
FREE Rainwise 101 Workshop
Thursday, October 20, 6 - 7:30 pm Columbia Branch Library, 4721 Rainier Ave S Learn about how rain gardens and cisterns help manage storm water, hear from delighted RainWise homeowners, including our client, Sheri Richardson, and get inspired by slides of their raingardens, meet trained RainWise contractors who can offer a free consultation, learn about big rebates from SPU and King County (up to 100% of the total cost), and get set to take the next step. Interested? Registration website: http://www.sustainableballard.org/register The Northwest Permaculture Convergence (NWPCC) is an inclusive annual weekend-long event that alternates between Oregon and Washington State. The Convergence brings together a remarkable diversity of people, all with creative approaches for designing living environments, and economic and culture systems that thrive within ecologically sustainable limits.
This year, Stone Soup Gardens, along with ten of our awesome crew members, stormed the Annual NW Permaculture Convergence by land and by Puget Sound! Stone Soup Gardens was a sponsor of this years event, which allowed us to take full advantage of the weekend's offerings, while enjoying a bit of rainy northwest weather at beautiful Fort Flagler State Park. We arrived on Friday, set up camp, and then went to hear mycologist guru, Paul Stamets, speak about his recent experience helping to solve bee colony collapse disorder. Fascinating work, check out his TED talk HERE, and buy and grow your own mushrooms from his company Fungi Perfecti! The next morning, Pandora Thomas gave a riveting talk on the importance of promoting cross-cultural dialogue and education around permaculture design within diverse communities. It was an uplifting and invigorating talk, and highlighted that permaculture is more than just designing sustainable living environments, that you must also consider and empower the social, economic, and cultural systems within those communities, in order for the system to thrive. There were an astounding number of speakers and events throughout Saturday and Sunday, including our very own Patrick Loderhose with a discussion on Greywater Systems, and Jake Harris, who spoke on Actualizing Abundance: Growing a Career in Permaculture. It was a great way for our crew to interact and gain knowledge in order to benefit themselves on their own paths, as well as fueling the greater knowledge base of Stone Soup Gardens. To round out the weekend, our own Joe Barrett volunteered to be on the NW Permaculture board, along with longtime board member (and our awesome designer), Jacqueline Cramer. Joe will help plan next year's permaculture convergence in Oregon. Way to go, Joe! If you are interested in learning more about the Northwest Permaculture Convergence, check out the website for a full listing of this year's speakers and events, as well as all of the opportunities available to help out this awesome organization. The Seattle Tilth Chicken Coop Tour is one of our favorite events of the year. It is an excellent time to let our little ladies shine in their awesome coop, meet lots of new friends, neighbors, and just to have a great time talking about all of the wonderful changes happening at Stone Soup Gardens. Are you coming?
Seattle Tilth Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour Saturday, July 16th, 10 am - 4 pm Several neighborhoods across Seattle Check out our awesome video from last year's coop tour! Rainier Beach Neighborhood Garden Tour
Saturday, June 11, 2016 11 am - 2 pm FREE We begin at the northeast corner of 66th and Ryan (10138 66th Ave S) Put on your walking shoes and get ready to visit a variety of gardens in a walkable area focused toward the southern part of the neighborhood. Stone Soup Gardens has a featured garden with cisterns and a raingarden, don't miss this gem! A reception with music and snacks will follow. For more information, visit the Upper Rainier Beach Garden Tour Website or Facebook Page. Sustainable Ballard Edible Garden Tour Saturday, June 25, 2016 10 am - 3 pm $10/Adult at the event Ballard Community Center, 6020 28th Ave NW Our goal is to educate and inspire folks to grow food by giving examples of creative uses of parking strips, containers, raised beds, bee houses, chicken coops, goats, fruit trees, berries and more! Meet the gardeners and ask questions. The tour includes more than a dozen gardens to explore within walking distance of the Ballard Community Center, including a lovely edible raingarden installed by Stone Soup Gardens. For more information visit the Sustainable Ballard Website. Seattle Tilth Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour Saturday, July 16, 2016 10 am - 4 pm Throughout Seattle - Purchase Tickets Here! Stone Soup Gardens will be hosting again this year at one of our favorite events! Come and visit to see our fabulous coop, our lovely birds, and our continuously changing landscape. We'll feature hugelculture beds, edible landscaping, a cistern, arborduct, and a laundry greywater system. It is a great time to glean great ideas from creative neighbors who are incorporating animals and gardens into their home landscapes! In this self-guided tour, you will see simple chicken coops built in an afternoon and elaborate finely-crafted coops that took weeks of planning and building. For more information, visit the Seattle Tilth Website, and check out the feature about Stone Soup Gardens at last year's coop tour HERE. Every month Stone Soupers gather together to do something awesome as an educational outreach day. We've visited an earthship, attended a permaculture conference, toured the Bullitt Center, kayaked to pull trash out of the Puget Sound, and most recently, went for a hike on the Gold Creek Trail near Snoqualmie Pass.
It was great to have the whole family there and to be able to share our collective knowledge of native vegetation, fungi, interesting animal facts, and to catch up with each other outside of the usual work day. Here's a look at our family outing. |
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