Do you have a friend or neighbor that loves to garden or has a great chicken coop? Let’s get Broadview on the map tour. News from the Seattle Tilth’s Did you know that Seattle has become known as a national hot spot for chickens and urban farms? See for yourself! This is your chance to…
Category Archives: Sustainability
Piper’s Creek Watershed-Broadview
Join in and learn about aquatic habitats. Seattle Watershed Forum set for evening of Wednesday, June 8 This year’s program explores question of “how do we make it happen?” SEATTLE —Would you like to join the effort to improve and protect Seattle’s waters and aquatic habitat? Come to the 2011 Seattle Watersheds Forum — June 8…
Bitter Lake P-Patch Work Party this Saturday
This Saturday, May 21st we will have our very first Work Party at the P-Patch site!!! We will be working on moving several of the Alaska Cedars on the site from one location down to the far west edge of the property. We need to take care of this so that we can be ready…
Seattle Tree Fruit Society Spring Lecture Day
The Seattle Tree Fruit Society is presenting a number of lectures on fruit tree growing on May 14 at Magnuson Park. It’s a widely varied set of topics. Lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 10:00 AM. For details see the information sheet at this link. STFS-SpringLectures
Every Day is Earth Day in Broadview!
One of the reasons I moved to Broadview was the large lot size and big trees. I love walking in the alleys looking at people’s gardens. Here are a few pictures that I took last year walking around. Also I posted a video of what Earth Day looks to me. If you want to share what…
Do you have what it takes to be a Tree Ambassador?
Green Seattle Partnership is working with the Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment to start a residential and street-scape property tree program called the Tree Ambassadors. Tree Ambassadors will work in their own neighborhoods to help support and create tree canopy through a wide range of projects and outreach activities. The goal of the…
Salmon are Imprinting at Carkeek Park
Volunteers from the Carkeek Watershed Community Action Project are caring for 27,000 chum salmon fry at the Les Malmgren imprint pond in Carkeek park. Each year fry are obtained from the Suquamish Hatchery and held in a pond at Carkeek for several weeks, so that they imprint the characteristics of the water in Venema Creek. That memory is…
Salmon in the Schools Reprieve
As we reported in a post, last fall the state eliminated state funding for the Salmon in the Schools program that introduces school children to environmental subjects by raising and releasing salmon fry. Recently Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) provided some funding to keep the program running at schools in Seattle. As pointed out in an article…
Bus chicks and nerds
OK, forget the headline. It wasn’t really my idea. It came from this story (from the News-Tribune in Ballard) about living car-free in Seattle. I found the interview with Seattle’s self-named “bike chick” interesting and helpful. Living car free is not easy in Seattle. I did it for years as a young person in Chicago,…
Carkeek Park: views after the Dec.12th rainstorm
After the rains subsided last Sunday, I toured the neighborhood and visited Carkeek Park to see how the record rainfall (2.17” in 24 hours) affected our beloved park and salmon-bearing creek. The creek, which normally runs clear with gentle ripples and small pools, was swollen and fast. The waters were gray with the sediment of…
