All posts by Wendy Hughes-Jelen

Safe, local food: it’s yours, at a price

Good article in the Seattle Times today about local and sustainably grown food. I shop at the West Seattle farmers market every Sunday as long as I am in town. I am happy to have Sea Breeze Farm at the market this year! They just started their booth in January, during the “off-season”, when only the hard-core farmer holdouts keep coming (like our good friend Wade at Rockridge Orchard and Cidery).

One place we have never cut corners on is our food. A lot easier to do for us than others since we are a child-free household and don’t have other hungry mouths to feed other than our own!

Social engineering? Or a great idea?

There’s a fabulous article in the Seattle Times today, discussing the redevelopment of Holly Park into NewHolly (in southeast Seattle). This is what is happening now at High Point in West Seattle – where my husband and I are moving to in August (we are waiting for our building to be completed).

NewHolly is a few years ahead of High Point. It is good to have a model and other people to talk to about how to overcome barriers between neighbors.

Read A new neighborhood built to tear down old barriers

TOUR — Ravenna Craftsman Bungalows: Welcome Home

From Seattle Architectural Foundation newsletter:

We’ve just learned that we will have interiors for the May 19 Ravenna bungalows tour. This tour will be given twice this year, the second time on Sunday, September 30 as part of Historic Seattle’s Bungalow Fair.

May 19
TOUR — Ravenna Craftsman Bungalows: Welcome Home
Date: Saturday, May 19
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: The tour will meet in the neighborhood. Logistics will be sent with email reminder.
Cost: $10 in advance, $12 day of tour (if space available)

Featuring informal plans, handsome woodwork, plus stone or river rock foundations and chimneys, these practical and structurally honest homes thoroughly convey early 20th-century Seattle. Interiors included.

Register online at www.seattlearchitecture.org or call 206.667.9184 with your V/MC. Walk-ups welcome if space is available.

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“Green Building” “Sustainability” What does it mean?

From the Seattle Architectural Foundation calendar:

“Green Building” “Sustainability” What does it mean? We hear and see these terms every day. The King Street Center one-hour tour on May 11 is an opportunity for you to learn more about green building and sustainability.

May 11
TOUR – Green Building Tour: King Street Center
Co-sponsored by King County Green Building Program and Urban Green
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Where: King Street Center
Cost: $10 in advance, no walk-ups accepted
King Street Center is the first building in the Pacific Northwest and one of only a handful nationwide to receive a Gold level rating from the U.S. Green Building Council for features in existing buildings that help conserve natural resources and protect the environment. Gold is the second highest rating possible through the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED®-EB) program.

For more information click here. Tour logistics will be sent with the registration reminder.
Register online at www.seattlearchitecture.org/tours or call 206.667.9184 with your V/MC.

Green Building tours give you the opportunity to walk and talk with the architects, engineers, project managers, clients and developers involved in bringing some of our region’s first “green buildings” to life. Find out about green building certifications such as LEED and BuiltGreen and how these buildings are creating a more sustainable future for our cities, our region and our planet. Seattle Architecture Foundation, King County Green Buildings Program and Urban Green have teamed up to provide six Green Building tours this year.

‘Urban’ farmers riding the trend for fresh, local

Some of our favorite farmers are quoted in this great story in today’s Seattle P-I. Steve comes with me to the farmers market JUST to talk to Wade Bennett of Rockridge Orchards. We took a MINI Cooper group there when going on a drive around Mt. Rainier in 2003 and have visited a few times since. Jeff Miller is also a great guy to talk to, and his farm is in my “hometown” of Monroe.