Public Spaces As Meaningful Places
May 21, 2024
Last week, Nancy and I wedged ourselves between students in a small room at Gould Hall. We heard Amelia Kazunas present a 10-minute summary of her Capstone project. The project aimed to discover how Seattle residents convert…
Not to Whine over the Columbine
April 24, 2024
"I can do this. I'll take a seed tray of Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) home and watch over it," I announced to the native plant nursery co-chair at Magnuson Park.
It was late November, when we propagate native…
Gardening for the Greater Good
March 26, 2024
Geurrilla gardening is an ancient practice that began centuries ago when property became a commodity, versus a community resource. It is practiced all over the world!
These days, you can ask permission to plant on a site…
WSDOT Has Poor Vision
February 27, 2024
Something is missing at the north end of our orchard. Before December, 2023, when I walked around the north loop, there was vegetation on the north side of the WSDOT fence, including our beautiful Deodar Cedar that we…
FECO Native Plant Mini-nursery Socked by ‘Dry Storm’
January 18, 2024
April 7 is our annual plant sale and we plan to have some fine offerings, that is, if the plants survive the recent dry freeze.
These last two weeks of unusual Seattle weather challenged many plants. The air over our area…
One-Year Diary of the William’s Pride Apple … and more
FECO Land Acknowledgment – A Work-In-Progress
November 16, 2023
Thanks to Lee who, in April of 2022, kicked off the conversation about FECO's relationship to Native American people, whose homes were on this land before European settlers arrived.
A six-member FECO Coast Salish…
Getting to the Root of the Matter
October 28, 2023
Today was a perfect day for shoveling! Cool temperatures and a warm sun. Best of all, the soil was moist and loose.
Volunteers were willing to follow up on a hunch and dug down to the concrete fence footing next to a poorly…
To Net or Not
September 30, 2023
To Net or Not
This year I got the hang of netting fruit trees. Not by choice. Our fruit trees were hit by apple maggot fly larvae damage two years ago. The larvae tunnel throughout the apple and ruin the taste (unlike…