Ten Years at Freeway Estates
February 18, 2020
Volunteers who put in 20+ hours last year gathered recently to sip Chestnut soup and brainstorm. Good ideas flowed, including a suggestion to add a sign to the kiosk, summarizing our efforts during the past ten years. Below…
Pathogen-Reducing Compost
January 14, 2020
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Benefits of compost are widely known: 1) enhances water holding capacity, soil structure, organic matter, drainage, and nutrient holding capacity of soil, 2) provides a source of beneficial microbes, 3) decreases…
Your Hori-Hori Could be Harboring Clubroot
November 26, 2019
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I meet weekly with the DirtLife group at Sound Bio Lab. Other members are scientists who are also interested in soil. We are designing a community-based science project so we surveyed the Seattle P-Patch…
How to Guard Against Leaf Miners
November 16, 2019
Joan here. I have been volunteering at FECO since the beginning of time. Recently, in my writing class, the instructor charged us to write a set of instructions for how to do something. Here goes!
Leaf miner larvae were…
Are Those Freckles?
October 18, 2019
Not Freckles. Dimples? Not dimples. Bitter pit. It's a bothersome disorder, common in Honeycrisp apples. In the cells of this apple, there is more air space and more pores than in normal apples. The pits are manifestations…
Fall Means Festival!
September 28, 2019
Fall is here! On Saturday, October 12th we will be hosting our 9th annual Cider Fest from 2:00-5:00pm. We invite everyone to visit the orchard and enjoy a free cup of freshly pressed hot apple cider.
You'll have the…
The Perfect Fruit Tree Owner
August 29, 2019
McIntosh. My favorite.
Most will say you can't grow a Mac here. Well, there is at least one tree in the Seattle area. Lori Brakken, apple sleuth, drives around and slams on the brakes when she spots any apple tree. She…
Offerings
July 26, 2019
Whatever we offer to the community, a larger offering comes back, in one way or another.
Yesterday morning a teen was sitting cross-legged on the bench, reading a book. She stayed quite awhile. The bench is a small offering…
Pollen in the Wind
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July 2, 2019
I am riding my bike around Wallingford, looking for a couple of big Chestnut (Castanea) trees. I know they are here somewhere. Our…