During this time of school closures and stay-at-home guidelines, North Cascades Institute is sharing lessons and activities from our talented Mountain School instructors and staff. We hope …
Read More of Foodshed Explorations: Cooking with Wild Violets
Since its official opening in 2005, the Environmental Learning Center has developed a reputation for high quality educational opportunities with world-class accommodations. The state-of-the-art facility offers overnight lodging for …
Read More of North Cascades Foodshed: Eating With Our Values
This post is a guest contribution by graduate student Tanner Johnson, who is also one of the Confluence Garden Managers for 2017-18. Pushing up through the remnants …
Read More of A Garden in the Mountains
We are the North Cascades Institute. And if you are reading this blog you are somehow affiliated with or are curious about our organization devoted to environmental …
Read More of LEED by Example
By Tyler Davis, member of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. Spring has arrived and summer will be here before we know it. When I think about summer, I …
Read More of Blue House Farm
During a recent celebration at the Environmental Learning Center, I noticed Saul, our Executive Director, gesturing toward the compost building from the back deck of the dining …
Read More of It's the COMpost!: Welcome to the Black Morel
This Saturday, September 29, North Cascades Institute is either hosting or involved with not one, not two, but three special events in Seattle, the Skagit Valley and …
Read More of Saturday, September 29 — Institute events in overdrive!
With an Introduction Recounting Current Happenings in the Foodshed Project [We are excited to publish the fifth piece in our Foodshed series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs …
Read More of Edible Geography: Perspectives and Practice in Foodshed Education
[We are excited to publish the third piece in our Foodshed Series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs working so hard to provide program participants and staff at …
Read More of A Habitat for Learning
[We are excited to publish the first piece in our Foodshed Series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs working so hard to provide program participants and staff …
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