October 2010 Blog Posts (6)

Celt's Garden - Corn Tortillas and Skagit River Produce

Winter squash stores well at cool room temperatures. If you didn't grow any winter squash, feel free to buy some from your local farmer. To prepare your squash for storage, wash off the soil, scrubbing gently with a soft brush, then go over the clean squash again with a wash rag soaked in cool water with a shot of bleach added. Allow to air dry. Then store your squash in cardboard boxes in a single layer, not touching. I keep mine in the basement, but any coolish place where it doesn't freeze… Continue

Added by Celt M. Schira on October 29, 2010 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

Redwoods film, Sunday Oct. 24, 2:30 Pickford

Help celebrate October as Urban Forestry Month by coming to this great film.

Film maker, Ben Greene will be on hand for Q and A after the showing.…

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Added by Barbara Davenport on October 22, 2010 at 4:39pm — 1 Comment

Celt's Garden - Mother Corn and More Hot Sauce

It's time to get the garlic in. For the organized, the cover crop of summer buckwheat is already grown, tilled in, and broken down and the garlic patch is ready to go. For harried folks with day jobs, me for example, it's a rush to get the summer garden pulled out to make room for garlic. Planting garlic comes on the heads, to protect the cloves until planting time. When you pop the cloves off the head, take care not to injure the base plate at the bottom. The clove's roots will grow from the… Continue

Added by Celt M. Schira on October 8, 2010 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Little Bellingham is # 10 in the nation for bike-to-work riders!

Portland is ahead of Bellingham for total percentage of workforce that commutes by bike. But not by much!

Ride on!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/boulder-colorado-leads-na_n_747261.html#s148813

Added by Rob Olason on October 6, 2010 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Empowered Communication

Not all of the tools needed for building resilience are physical ones. On day 2 of Transition Whatcom's Great Unleashing, someone mentioned how important it is to make sure we have good communication skills. It has been a subject of discussion numerous times since then - as peak oil bloggers Carolyn Baker and Sally Erickson put it,… Continue

Added by David MacLeod on October 3, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Removal of Yard Sign Launch from the Events page

I removed the Oct. 9th Yard Sign Launch (which was my project and not a TW event) from the Transition Whatcom events listings because, on re-reading the vision statement and articles of TW at the suggestion of the TWOG, I realized that any event/post tending toward the political can be seen by some as an "us and them' issue. Since TW is about inclusivity, I have decided, in future, not to post things that might be interpreted as political but instead stick with my other passions - chickens and… Continue

Added by Alicia Wills on October 3, 2010 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments