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I can’t stand how rude and inconsiderate some people are!
My brother and his fiancée come over in two separate cars and leave after dark when his fiancée isn’t comfortable driving so they leave her car here. That wouldn’t bother me except for the fact that they leave her car across the street in front of the neighbors house and it stays there for days. It was there for 3 days straight last week. I don’t know if the neighbor’s refuge was even picked up because the car was in the way. It makes me so bad and it’s embarrassing that family would be so rude. I kinda wish they would have it towed just to teach them a lesson…ugh!
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Drinks for all this morning! Thanks @amaliette3 #dutchbros #dutchbrothers #coffee #dutchluv
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Temperature outside vs. Temperature inside at work. Something isn’t right here #hot
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Yay for running out of ink!
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Dress I made for Miss Stella #crafty #dress #dogdress #dogclothes
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The starts of a pillowcase dress for Gabzilla’s niece #dress #crafty
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Weather gets above 55 degrees in Washington state
Everyone breaks out their shorts and all coffee is iced
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Before I die, I want to… on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/52890376/via/miisandralopez
Hearted from: http://whatsyourbucketlist.tumblr.com/post/43485187749
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(Source: norequeststaken)
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(Source: norequeststaken)
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Boats Resting On Water on Flickr.
Gig Harbor, WA
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It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food ForestForget meadows. Seattle’s food forest will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking.
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
“The concept means we consider the soils, companion plants, insects, bugs—everything will be mutually beneficial to each other,” says Harrison.
That the plan came together at all is remarkable on its own. What started as a group project for a permaculture design course ended up as a textbook example of community outreach gone right.
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
“The concept means we consider the soils, companion plants, insects, bugs—everything will be mutually beneficial to each other,” says Harrison.
That the plan came together at all is remarkable on its own. What started as a group project for a permaculture design course ended up as a textbook example of community outreach gone right.
“Friends of the Food Forest undertook heroic outreach efforts to secure neighborhood support. The team mailed over 6,000 postcards in five different languages, tabled at events and fairs, and posted fliers,” writes Robert Mellinger for Crosscut.
Neighborhood input was so valued by the organizers, they even used translators to help Chinese residents have a voice in the planning.
So just who gets to harvest all that low-hanging fruit when the time comes?
“Anyone and everyone,” says Harrison. “There was major discussion about it. People worried, ‘What if someone comes and takes all the blueberries?’ That could very well happen, but maybe someone needed those blueberries. We look at it this way—if we have none at the end of blueberry season, then it means we’re successful.”
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It’s like raining #CherryBlossom petals!! #UW #Quad #Seattle
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