Agriculture & Education Discover Day
Healing the soil with happy animals By Alex SmithMay 2019 One of the top challenges you’ll hear about in agriculture, and for our world, is topsoil. This component of the Earth enables essentially all terrestrial plant life to exist. And without plant life, humans and other animals would have a hard time surviving. It...
Members of PeaceHealth’s stellar Food & Nutrition Services team! Farm Fresh Workplace Success By Diana Meeks If you go all the way back to the origins of PeaceHealth in the late 19th century, you’ll find an amazing story and an amazing woman. Mother Francis Claire (shown below), who founded the Sisters of St. Joseph...
Good Cider Made By Nice People For the love of all things Bellingham… you need to get to know Lost Giants Cider Co. Pull up a chair. Let’s start with the basics: What is cider? The universal definition is pretty simple, just unfiltered apple juice. And, lucky for us, apples are abundant in Washington...
Natural Dairy From a Family Farm By Liz Hansen The Lukens family didn’t start Grace Harbor Farms with the intention of growing a commercial business. Originally, starting a farm just seemed practical: Y2K was looming, and the Lukens understood the value of having milk-producing animals as a part of their emergency plan. As you...
An Homage to Spain’s Finest By Diana Meeks It’s December and I’m in Edison, watching Russell Duncan make paella in the back of Slough Foods. The pan is giant, a steel full moon, which I could easily curl up in and float across the slough if such a thing were possible. But it isn’t,...
Long, long ago, in the Salish Sea, the Lummi people devised ingenious methods to harvest wild salmon. Their methods were meant not only to respected the sacred fish, but to ensure the salmon’s return for many generations to come. Today, Lummi Island Wild uses the exact same ancient practices to harvest salmon from the...
One of the things we love most at Sustainable Connections is helping to make more local food connections. For the last 7 years, we have been connecting local employers with local farmers in the Farm Fresh Workplaces program, to get deliveries of farm-fresh produce straight from the farm to the office.