While at the Book Fest yesterday, I picked up a catalog from the University of Washington Press. One of the books recently published (October) is titled "Greening Cities, Growing Communities -- Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens." The authors are Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson and Laura Lawson. This book looked quite interesting and comprehensive and I thought it might be a good reference for creating a community garden in Burien.
There are case studies of six community gardens in Seatt… Continue

I picked up a Baby Jogger in good shape at a garage sale for only $15. If you can give it a good home, it's yours. I can send a photo if you like. (It doesn't have a rain cover.)

Just back from Taste , tour and talk @ Eat Local. Hope that all enjoyed themselves. I really liked Greg's commitment to the local community of farmers and purchasers which benefit all of us and our environment. Bill

October 19, 2009, 5:30 p.m.

TASTE, TOUR & TALK with Gregory Conner of the new EatLocal store in Burien (810 SW 151st). Greg will give us a taste of some of the food they prepare, a tour of the store, and a talk about local farms and lessening carbon footprint, etc. Please RSVP to Rebecca (of Sustainable Burien) at rdare2@yahoo.com so we have an idea of how many people to expect.

Here's a link to B-Town blog with the details --

http://www.b-townblog.com/2009/10/22/?ec3_listing=events