Join us for a free mushroom ID workshop, Sunday, July 17, 10 am -- noon at the Mount Rainier Food Forest! Would you like to learn more about the fungus that lives among us? Perhaps even start to identify a few common edible types? Come to our first ever mushroom ID workshop at the food... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Mushroom growing workshop / Saturday, May 7, 2022 at New Brooklyn Farm AND Saturday, May 21, 2022 at the Food Forest
UPDATE: Due to the weather forecast, Saturday's workshop has been moved to an indoor location at New Brooklyn Farm, and the outdoor workshop has been moved to 1:00 pm on Saturday May 21. Now you have your choice of workshop days! Come to New Brooklyn Farm on May 7th OR the food forest on May... Continue Reading →
Mushroom growing workshop / Saturday, May 7, 2022
Come to the Mount Rainier food forest on May 7th for a morning of mushroom adventures! A group of local mycophiles will lead a workshop on growing shiitake, oyster and wine cap mushrooms on logs, straw and wood chips. Participants will be able to take a log or inoculated straw home with them. Local mushroom... Continue Reading →
Work day and celebration / Saturday, May 1, 2021
With the major work of designing and planting the food forest behind us, and with safe outdoor gatherings again possible, we are now pivoting from creating the food forest to using it. In 2021, we will be hosting a series of work days, workshops and plant swaps the first Saturday of each month. The first... Continue Reading →
Celebrating Success!
On Sunday, September 20, 2020 many of those who have volunteered to water, haul mulch, weed, dig, and plant gathered to celebrate our lovely park. Enjoy these photos, from Mimi McKindley-Ward, Barry Stahl, and Kathy Shollenberger. Our new bamboo bower, constructed by Shivali Shah: Socially distanced picnickers: Musical accompaniment: Admiring the park, enjoying the... Continue Reading →
Mulch Yet Again! / August 1, 2020
Join us this Saturday, August 1, 9:00-12:00. Come for a little, come for a lot. Spread mulch, move stumps, and/or re-stake and re-net trees and shrubs that are in need of that attention. The photo below shows our original work; in some cases the plants have outgrown their enclosures, so we need to expand their... Continue Reading →
Calling all wheelbarrows!