Seattle Tilth’s Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour is in the final stages of planning and is looking for a few more participants. I’ve gone on the tour a couple times and been on the tour a couple times. It’s a lot of fun to do with kids and doesn’t conflict with the Kiddie Parade this year. Also, most of the setups you see are done by the owners that show you around. It’s a great opportunity for a personal connection with people and food, and by swapping bloody tales of battles with raccoons and rats you dispel the Seattle chill.

From Chris Iberle of Seattle Tilth:

Seattle Tilth’s Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour is on July 14.  We’re still looking for a few more hosts, especially in north, central, south, and west Seattle, and around Issaquah.  We’d love for you to be a part of the tour this year!  We’re also looking for a few more hosts with rabbits, goats, ducks, or other fun urban livestock.

Attached is the application for the 2012 tour, taking place on Saturday, July 14 from 10a.m.-4p.m.  Fill it out and get it back to us with a couple photos by May 31, 2012 (note that our email system doesn’t accept large messages, so please send medium-sized photos or send your application and photos in a separate email).

After receiving your application and photos, we’ll be in touch about the next steps and a site visit sometime in early June.  Feel free to invite neighbors to apply with their cool coops, great goats, and fantastic urban farms, it’s great to have a few in walking distance from one another.

Thanks and don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions!

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Have you remodeled your Wallingford home or added a backyard cottage? Then you’ll want to consider submitting an entry to the Wallingford 2012 Home Design Awards. But hurry, because the deadline for submitting an application is this Friday (June 1). From the Wallingford Neighborhood Office:

The Wallingford Home Design Awards Committee invites all Wallingford home owners to submit their new or renovated homes for consideration in the Wallingford Home Design Awards program. Recognition will be given to those designs which show special care taken to relate to the context of the community and to meet the unique needs of those living in the home. The focus is on single family residences: new, remodeled and expanded.

Only homes in the Wallingford neighborhood will be considered. (North 60th Street is the North boundary, I-5 on the East, Aurora Avenue on the West and Lake Union on the South.) The home must be occupied by the owner. Construction must have been substantially completed no more than eight years prior to the application deadline. Detached accessory dwellings and backyard cottages will also be considered.

Applications and more details for this program may be found on line at www.wallingford.org or you may stop by the Wallingford Neighborhood Association office, located north of Tully’s at 2100 N. 45th Street, Suite A,  (at 45th and Meridian) 98103.  The office door faces Meridian. Hours are 10-3 Monday -Thursday and 12-3 Friday. Call Janet Strong, WNA Director, at 205-632-3165 (message) or 206-406-0615 (cell) for more information.

Applications must be submitted by June 1, 2012, either as an electronic document (emailed to: wno@wallingford.org), or in the mail slot at the Wallingford Neighborhood Association office or via US Post to WNA.

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Chris W. sent us some sad news she read on the Gasworks Park Kite Shop Facebook page:

We are finally announcing the closing of Gasworks Park Kite Shop. The building we are in is going to be torn down- a good reason to retire after 33 years. We are targeting July 31 as our last day.

In our family, buying and flying a kite is a childhood rite of passage, and having a kite shop conveniently located next to Kite Hill made that tradition all the sweeter. I’m sad to see them leave the neighborhood, but wish them a very happy retirement!

Here’s a little bit of the shop’s history (from their website):

Gasworks Park Kite Shop began as Suspended Elevations in 1976 in the University District of Seattle.  Kites were manufactured and designed in a small rickety area of The “Sun Loft.”

In 1980 the mother and son team of Kathy Goodwind and Todd Hostetter moved the operation to the North Lake Union area of Gasworks Park where Mayor Royer declared ‘Kite Hill as the official kite flying area of Seattle.  Now there is kiteflying all over Seattle at Golden Gardens, Magnusson Park, Carkeek Park or Discovery Park. Gasworks Park Kite Shop has been in 5 different homes since moving to the area. We produced the Seattle Kite Festival for 12 years where thousands of people gathered to watch kites and banners flow in the wind.

At our retail outlet location, 3420 Stone Way North, Jennifer and Eric teach people how to have fun outdoors. We carry toys as well as kites. Whether flying a kite, tossing a disk or juggling balls, lunastix , diabolos, or yo yos, they make a sure customers leave happy.

If our customers cannot make it to our store we have provided this website to give customers an idea of the products we carry.  All customers need to do is pick the product they desire, place it in the shopping cart and we will send the purchase post haste.

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Bam, ba-de-bam-bam, boom!

The Drum Exchange (4501 Interlake Ave. N) will be hosting a full day of percussive workshops, demonstrations and the like this Saturday, June 2nd. Here’s the deets:

The Drum Exchange is hosting a FREE “Day of Percussion” event on Saturday, June 2, 2012 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Celebrate the wide world of percussion during an exciting day of great music, classes, door prizes and other freebies. The “Day of Percussion” event is geared toward anyone who has an interest in percussion whether as a student, teacher, professional or enthusiast. This unique event will feature clinics and demonstrations given by Master Percussionists Jeff Busch (Brazilian Percussion), Ernesto Pediangco (Cuban Percussion), Alan Keown (Drumline), Michael Waldrop (Marimba), and Garey Williams (Drumset).

We are grateful to the following sponsors and contributors for helping to make this event possible: YAMAHA Percussion, Sabian, Vic Firth, Remo, DW, ProMark and the Washington Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. Please visit drumexchange.com for event details and schedule. The Drum Exchange is located at 4501 Interlake Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 545-3564.

Following the “Day of Percussion” there is an evening performance at 7:30 p.m. with Thione Diop, a Master drummer from Senegal, West Africa who is widely recognized for his powerfully expressive Djembe performances. This event is sponsored by and will be held at the CMA Gallery and Performance Space, located at 4501 Interlake Ave N. #9, Seattle.

There’s more information on the Day of Percussion web site, and Ed has put together this handy video that explains exactly what’s going on:

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The long winter is over! How do we know? The Wallingford Farmers Market kicks back into gear this Wednesday, May 30th, 3:30-7:00 p.m.

After a tumultuous, community rendering debate on its location, you may remember, it landed over at Meridian Park behind the Good Shepherd Center, and, while there remains some imperfections with this spot (some neighbors are bothered by the parking shenanigans), in general it was a huge success. The trees and park gave a bucolic backdrop to the market and the lawn provided a perfect spot to listen to music and snack on crisp produce freshly purchased from the local vendors. We hope for more of the same.

Here’s what the Seattle Farmers Market Association has to say:

Wallingford Farmers Market opens Wednesday, May 30th: Our Wallingford Farmers Market returns for its 7th season – 2nd at the beautiful Meridian Park Playfield, at the West side of the park, just off Meridian Ave. at N. 50th Street. Meridian Park is a stunning space with a playground, fruit trees, cool grass and shady patches onto which one can toss a blanket and make a picnic with the goodness from the Market. We do ask that Market customers to be respectful our gracious hosts, the Good Shepherd Center, and please do not park in their lot, as it interferes with school children being picked up.

Wallingford will again feature a chefs-only market from 3:00-3:30 p.m., lots of great cooking demonstrations and local music, and an extraordinary lineup of great local food producers. Chef Jason Brzozowy of Tilth gets the new season going with another of his great cooking demonstrations featuring market-fresh ingredients and how-to tips. Get reacquainted with favorite vendors like Summer Run Farm, Red Owl Mushroom Farm, Tiny’s Organic Produce, Grateful Bread Bakery and Zaw Pizza, and welcome new vendors like One Leaf Farm, a great new farm from Carnation, Gaia’s Natural Goods farm from Snohomish, Sprouters NW with microgreens and Sky Valley Farm with… wait for it… eggs!

So Much More: From rhubarb to arugula to meat, seafood and poultry; from butter, cheese, milk and yogurt to plants for your garden; from collard greens to pea vines to broccoli; and from pickles to mushrooms to raw-vegan and gluten-free products, you’ll find just about everything you need on your grocery list at our farmers markets, including the wine and hard cider! And enjoy cooking demonstrations from great, local chefs at Wallingford and Madrona to get great ideas on how to best work with the bounty from our local farmers and food artisans.

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Sheila B wrote:

Saw this little rock gathering on the sidewalk today — just off Stone Way near Rocking Wok. Fun!

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And I don’t mean the annoying neighbors partying into the wee hours.

Nancy writes that there are some recent Wallyhood Forum questions about aphids. Upon reading the various comments, it appears that aphids, whiteflies, midges, flies, or other winged creatures may be causing consternation among gardeners and homeowners alike.

The key to putting one’s mind at ease regarding creatures is

• Make sure you get a good i.d. This is THE most important thing to do. Without a proper identification, you can’t treat the problem effectively. One way to do this is to collect the creature in question – lure it into a jar and take good closeup photo. If you don’t mind causing it discomfort, you could keep it in the jar and take it to a local nursery or Master Gardener clinic.

Alternatively, send a detailed closeup photo with as many body parts visible as possible to the wonderful folks at Bugguide.net (reading the submission guidelines carefully). Trying to describe insects without a photo or the actual bug is not helpful.

• Once you have the i.d., check the Grow Smart Grow Safe website for the least toxic management ideas.

So, back to the forum comments – the identification of the pest varies from “whitefly” to flies that may be coming from compost, collecting around windows, etc. These all sound like different pests. Hence the admonition to identify carefully. But, take aphids & whitefly as an example.

Aphids and whitefly are insects that suck out plant juices. Aphids go for the tips of buds and leaves, whitefly land on the underside or surface of leaves and fly up when you disturb them. Spring is the obvious time to have problems with insects on tender new growth.  My blog post on Girding for Pests and Other Thoughts on Spring may be of some help when confronting this kind of insect. I talk about boom and bust population cycles, predators, the fact that aphids are born pregnant, and such.

Since sucking insects have access to what is the equivalent of the bloodstream of a plant, they can spread viruses and disease among plants if they move around, so control may be necessary depending on your situation.

Some people (Nancy, who brought this to my attention, is one) plant trap crops that aphids like, so they will go to those plants rather than the ones you really care about. Sometimes this works.

If you have a high value plant that will be damaged seriously by early attack, try treating that plant with one of the Grow Smart remedies (Safer’s soap, etc, or just squish them).

Perhaps the idea of purchasing ladybugs or lacewings to eat the pests is appealing – I would caution that buying predators from other locales and moving them in is not the most efficient method of pest control. Often the ladybugs are in cold storage, and when they wake up they think they have been hibernating and immediately leave the area to migrate. Also, some of the collection methods may not be the most sustainable. Plus, if the conditions (food supply, places to live, any number of environmental factors) are not right, they will leave to find them. Lacewings work well in controlled conditions like greenhouses, but out in the world purchased ones may not survive as well. Here is some good info on lacewings.

A far better idea is to build up your very own populations of predators with ecologically sound gardening methods.

Observe – watch what is going on before you freak out; if it’s not too icky, try raising a few insects from larvae or eggs to find out what they look like in other, possibly less charismatic life stages.

Many adult insects feed on nectar and/or pollen; the other stages are predatory. Here is a lacewing larva, that does the eating, and their beautiful eggs. The adult feeds on sweet things like honeydew from aphids.

Lacewing larva eating aphid

Lacewing eggs

Make sure beneficials have what they need:

• food (that would be your target pests, also sometimes nectar and pollen, depends on the bug and the life stage)
• water
• shelter and overwintering/hibernating places in leaf litter, under debris and bark crevices
• no pesticides
• a light hand on the maintenance, i.e. do not “clean cultivate” every inch of the yard
• add compost regularly
• grow a variety of plants, as many native as possible, and plant enough to cover but not crowd the space at multiple vertical and horizontal layers

chances are quite good that MOST of the bugs in your garden are beneficial!

Photos: Lacewing larva: Wikipedia rom de.wiki, uploaded by kulac author Eric Steinert; Eggs

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We’ve heard a few neighbors concerned with development up around 55th and Kensington. Seeing changes to your neighborhood can be difficult, so we agreed to share both sides of what we’ve heard. Here’s what Shannon had to say:

The project gets more concerning by the day, and we’ve had dozens of neighbors come around asking about the project now that the structure is being built (see photos attached).

Background:  A house sold last fall at 5501 Kensington Place North and the owner has found a loophole to divide the lot and build a separate structure. We thought that SF5000 zoning meant that the lot would only have one house / one owner, but it turns out there’s a zoning exception, defined by the city’s Department of Planning & Development after inquiry:

“Although the general minimum lot area requirement in an SF5000 zone is 5000 square feet, the Land Use Code provides a number of exceptions. One of those exceptions applies to parcels recognized as separate lots in the public record prior to 1957. A portion of the property at 5501 Kensington Place North, adjacent to the alley, was held as a separate tax parcel for over 30 years, starting in 1939. Although this parcel was small [1,050 sf], we concluded that it did qualify for the lot area exception, based on the language of the code. A lot boundary adjustment has been applied for (Project No. 3012875), which would not increase the size of the parcel, but change its shape.”

Project:  Developer Dan Duffus and contractor Steele Granger have divided the lot, excavated the backyard orchard/garden and started construction on an ultra-modern style monolith that will tower like a treehouse over the alley and neighbors’ backyards (with no real street access aside from an odd narrow fenced walkway to Kensington). The existing house was sold to a contractor who is attempting to quickly “flip” it for 150% of the sales price of the full size lot, originally sold just six months ago.

Our take: Three things are especially troubling about the project:

1. Dan and team have cut a tree that resides on a neighbor’s property nearly in half, with no notification to the neighbor.
2. It seems the developer may be taking up more space than the alloted 1,050 sf to build the home, based on fence lines and expected size of the new home’s yard space,
3. the developer negotiated a quit claim deed with a next door neighbor without making his intentions clear to build a new house in the back.

As concerned neighbors, we have filed complaints with the city (Department of Planning & Development), discussed with city officials, tried without success to contact Steele (who agreed to a meeting about the tree “hacking” but then didn’t show up) and consulted with an arborist and lawyer. We’re frustrated by what we see happening in our neighborhood with developers “bending the rules” to make a profit but impacting the quality of lives for those left with the impacts. Have you had similar projects on your block and/or do you have any suggestions on what we should do to impact the outcome?

See photos attached that show how lot was mowed down (including neighbor’s tree), odd fencing of the original house and the huge house being built.

We put in a call to Steele Granger, the developer of the property and related what we’d heard. Here’s what we had to say (transcribed and condensed from our hastily scrawled notes):

This is a really unfortunate situation, but everything I’ve done has been completely legal. There was a tree encroaching on my property. I had my tree guy there, we knocked on the door and nobody was home, so we cut it in half, back to the property line. We did eventually meet with the owner and worked out a compromise. He’s happy, we’re happy. [Ed Note: Steele indicated that that neighbor is out of the country at the moment, so we didn't seek confirmation.]

It’s a historic lot, that’s very small. It’s been an existant lot since the turn of the century, anyone can look in the files at the Seattle DPD. Nothing we did was bending the rules in any way.

People have to understand density in Seattle. It’s a built green home, under 1,400 sq ft. It uses hydronic, efficient heating, net-and-blow insultation, toto / dual flush toilets. It’s a very environmentally friendly home.

I’m moving into this, it’s my future residence, for me and and my future wife. Yes, it’s a small lot, but it’s all I can afford, and I do intend to move into it and I’m creating jobs in Seattle along the way. My family has building in Seattle for over 40 years.

The lot behind the existing house was a separate parcel. A co-worker bought the whole lot, sold the back parcel to another co-worker and sold the other parcel to me.

I’m nervous about moving there, because of reaction from the neighbors, but I want to live in Seattle, and this is a way I can do it that I can afford. It all turned out to be really sad.

That’s what the two sides have to say. Hopefully, by hearing it all, we can have a better understanding than we would just walking by.

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A few weeks back, we posted a note from Kevin letting you know what to do if you came upon a swarm of bees. Well, at about 4:30 pm today, we got a knock on our door from Curtis*, working at the John Stanford School across the street: there was a swarm of bees in the trees.

Now, for a beekeeper, a swarm of bees landing across the street is like free money (well, free money that you have to sweat for, and that you may well get stung for, but still…) If you can get them into a box and get them to stick around, you can nurture that hive into 8 gallons or more of honey per year. Pure gold.

I hurried out to my garage and dug out an empty hive body (one of the boxes that, when filled with frames of bees wax, stack up to make a traditional bee hive). From previous swarm catching, I had a board I had cut to the size of the box that I was able to screw on and I had an extra lid, so I had something I could shake the bees into and close up.

With the help of Nestor the school custodian, we requisitioned some ladders, sussed an approach and a plan, and I climbed up, put the open box underneath the clump of bees, shook them down in and closed it up.

They’re now happily (I hope) settling in to their new home in my backyard, along with my existing hives. One extra hive of bees, provided by the neighborhood. In honor of their origin, I pledge this year’s honey harvest from that hive as a fundraiser for the JSIS.

* Curtis, if I’ve got your name wrong, I’m sorry!

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David Perlin wrote:

I just got something at QFC this afternoon and got a notice that the QFC Select Baby Spinach that we bought between 5/22-5/24 (and have been eating the last few days) has a recall for possible Salmonella contamination. I thought I would let people in the neighborhood know as QFC is frequented by many people around here. More information QFC’s recall page.

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Neighbors who live at the Stone Way Building (1215 N. 45th St.) are throwing a “Community Stone Way Party” this Saturday, May 26, from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM and everyone is invited. Here are the details from Fathia Atallah (Wallingford’s Edith Piaf incarnate):

Our Spring Party is a always a lot of fun for the residents and our neighbors who live around and near the Stone Way Building to spend time with each other in the lovely garden behind our building and sample some great music and delicious food.

• Amy and Lulit will serenade us with a few beautiful A Capella songs.
• The Twin Brothers promised to break dance for us.
• Sigrid will sing a song or two.
• Our Tenor friend and neighbor Robert will enchant us with one or two popular songs.
• Fathia will bring her guitar. Suzanne and her her Cello will play a fun Bach melody!

Stone Way Building (Shari Walker is our lovely Building manager)

1215 N. 45th Street

The entrance door is secure and we want to make sure people can get in. It’s best if people call (206-324-3523) or email @ fathiainseattle@yahoo.com  if they are coming.

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Wish...

Green Lake Mom Sheryl wrote to the group about a new women’s boutique that just opened here in Wallingford:

I just wanted to let everyone know that the boutique Wish (formerly in Phinney on Phinney Ave) just opened in Wallingford. Very exciting addition to Wallingford!!  Super stylish dresses and clothing and great jewelry with a VERY reasonable price point. Great for your own closet or as a place to get a reasonably priced gift! Opened on Wallingford Ave and 45th St, across the street from the Wallingford Center. (and P.S. I’ve got no affiliation with the boutique except that as a neighborhood resident I’d love to see it flourish and stay put!)

So, I went to check it out for myself and was delightfully surprised by their great selection of women’s clothing. I spoke briefly to Anna Ford, who works at the boutique, and she explained to me that the owners Sabrina and Shane designed many of the items. Anna tells me that they were in Phinney Ridge for awhile, but they came over here to Wallingford via their temporary Roosevelt location, where they hung out until they found suitable store space. They opened last Tuesday in the former Terra Hemp space (4419 Wallingford Avenue N.) and have quickly transformed the space into a cozy boutique adorned with some beautifully-designed lamps designed by Shane.

In addition to jeans, hats and scarves, they also have cute, reasonably-priced summer dresses, tops, and skirts. Plus, they sell an assortment of jewelry, including some of Anna’s unique Steam Punk designs.

Wish… will be open during the Wallingford Art Walk on June 6, so when you’re all done Flash Mob’in, Bollywood-style, stop in and say “hello”. They also have their Grand Opening planned for Wednesday, June 20.

Wish… is open Mondays-Fridays (11:00AM-7:00PM); Saturdays (11:00AM-6:00PM); and Sundays (12:00PM-5:00PM).

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Photo by evo, Fremont Collective

Seattle Met reports that The Whale Wins, a new restaurant by Chef Renee Erickson (Boat Street Cafe and Kitchen and The Walrus and the Carpenter), will open this summer in the Fremont Collective (3506 Stone Way N.). Erickson told Seattle Met that “her new place will have the same approachable vibe as Walrus” but it will have a wood-fired oven for signature vegetable dishes rather than an oyster bar.

As we mentioned back in March, the Fremont Collective will also be Joule’s new home this summer.

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Last Thursday, Wallingford suffered a tragic loss when two of its longtime residents, Dan and Rose Riley, died from injuries sustained after their car hit a tree on N. 34th St. at Burke Avenue N. If you were in the neighborhood around 12:30pm, you probably heard the news helicopters flying overhead and heard the emergency vehicles heading south. The Rileys were taken to Harborview Medical Center and later died within hours of one another.

According to the obituary in The Seattle Times, the Rileys had been together for 64 years, married in 1948, and raised seven children. Prior to their meeting, both served in World War II, with Rose as a nurse for the U.S. Army, stationed in England during D-Day, and Dan stationed on Army bases and working with prisoners of war.

Rose continued nursing and worked at Swedish Hospital until they married. Dan worked for Seattle Public Schools as a high school teacher for Ballard High, and then as Director of Student Placement until he retired in 1982. Nancy Bartley of The Seattle Times also wrote that Dan was instrumental in ramping up the district’s busing program in the 1970s with the goal to “achieve racial balance in the schools.”

According to Bartley, the Rileys were longtime residents of Wallingford, living in a Craftsman home they had purchased for $14,000. Over time, they enlarged the two-bedroom home to accomodate their family.

A funeral mass will be held for the Rileys at St. Benedict’s this Saturday at 11:00AM. In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be made to St. Benedict School.

This is the kind of story that sticks with you for days and days because there’s something so bittersweet about how they died; so tragic, and yet they were together during their final moments. I didn’t know the Rileys personally, but my sincerest condolences go to their family and friends.

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Katie Pearl

Back in March, we told you that Susan McCloskey was leaving her position as principal for B.F. Day. Last week, Interim Superintendent Susan Enfield sent the following letter to announce the school’s new principal, Katie Pearl:

Dear B.F. Day community,

I am excited today to announce the appointment of Katie Pearl as your new principal, effective July 1, 2012.

Ms. Pearl comes to B.F. Day Elementary from Mercer Middle School, where she was assistant principal. Ms. Pearl is committed to the vision of B.F. Day as a family school and to rigor and excellence for every student. She will be a great fit for the B.F. Day community.

Katie Pearl previously served as house administrator at Mercer Middle School, and she was a Special Education teacher at Mercer Middle School and at Briggs Elementary in Bronx, New York. She also was a classroom teacher at Hamlin Robinson School in Seattle.

She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Mercy College, with an emphasis on elementary education and K-12 special education, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College. She has Washington State Administrative Certification and has completed the Danforth Educational Leadership Program through the University of Washington.

Ms. Pearl was selected after a hiring process that included input from staff and families. The selection team committee was particularly impressed with her strong experience in instructional leadership. Please join me in welcoming Katie Pearl to B.F. Day Elementary!

Susan

Susan Enfield, Ed.D.
Interim Superintendent
Seattle Public Schools

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