A Garden in the Mountains
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 …
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Catching Alaskan salmon for the Learning Center
As part of our Foodshed initiative, North Cascades Institute strives to deliver the highest quality meals for all participants at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center because …
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LEED by Example
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 …
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Blue House Farm
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 …
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North Cascades Foodshed Summit 2015
By Annah Young, Tyler Davis, and Ginna Malley-Campos who are all graduate students in the institutes 15th cohort. On December 4, 2015, over 20 local farmers, educators, …
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Classroom in Bloom: Growing the locavores of tomorrow
Hot. Dry. Dusty. A perfect description for the Methow Valley, an area currently in a severe drought. So it was rather surprising then when the new graduate …
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Science, Sustainability, Singing, Stir-fry, and Snacks!
I met them on August 1st. Twenty bright new faces arrived on buses and vans at the Wilderness Information Center in Marblemount. As they walked quietly out …
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Learning to teach through the "what if…?s"
On my first teaching day of fall Mountain School I was terrified. I was completely smitten with the amazing North Cascades ecosystem I’d just spent all summer …
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Facing Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
North Cascades Institute former staffers and current friends Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele just launched four new films for their multimedia project, Facing Climate Change. Oyster Farmers, Coastal …
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Kitchen Gratitude: Another Year in the Foodshed
Above two photos: (top) Sous Chef Mike Cuseo gets some help trying out a crazy ides: Oyster (mushrooms) on the Half-shell. (bottom) After the oven… Photos by Kacey …
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