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The Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club is a community of enthusiastic folks that share a love of all things gardening. We gather monthly for Club meetings to enjoy camaraderie, knowledgeable club expert talks, and special guest speakers and presentations. Creative workshops, off-island tours and adventures, and summer Open Garden events enhance our active Garden Club.
Club Activities
General Meeting & Potluck!
December 9th, 2024
Presenter: Marilee Runyon, Speaking on Climate Change
Join us for the last meeting of 2024 and celebrate with friends with our Garden Club Potluck. Please bring a dish to share and make sure to mark your name on it so it can get back to you!
NPR's Jennifer Jewell Podcast features Vashon's Seed farmer, Jen Wiliams:
"All Hallows Eve/Samhain & our wildest dreams, with Jen Williams of Wild Dreams Farm & Seed"
Sometimes our dreams didn't start out as our dreams. Sometimes, our current dreams were once just seeds germinating in the crucible of time and experience leading up to what is now. For seed farmer Jen Williams, being a seed farmer situated within a small island community was not always the dream. The dream to effect meaningful change in the world around her, started out for Jen in a realm all to prominent for most of us right now – electoral politics and the largest human structures of power in our world. But over time, disappointments, reality check disenchantments and more importantly, surprising enchantments, Jen's desire to change the world composted and transformed itself into her current life in the soil, with the plants and their seeds, in community, on the land. Now her wildest dreams effect powerful and beautiful change in the world through her - and our - collective relationships to plants, food, beauty, and place.
I had the great joy of visiting Wild Dreams Farm & Seed this past summer, and I am so pleased to welcome Jen Williams to Cultivating Place this week on the seasonal harvest-to-winter transition, life-and-death-and-life-again-cycle celebration day of All Hallows Eve/Samhain. Because like the seasons, and the past, present, and future realms, and our gardens - our wildest dreams are the stuff of transformation. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.
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