Local Champions
Sea to Shore Seafood Co.
Meet Chelsea and Peter, a young couple that has committed themselves to sustainable fishing and getting you all freshest most delicious seafood possible!
Bellingham Pasta Co.
Fresh Pasta, Made Simply By Alex Smith When I think of the holiday season, my mind immediately turns to good food shared with good people and a healthy amount of laughter. So it was perfectly fitting that I had the chance to visit the home of Bellingham Pasta...
Serendipity As A Catalyst
This past summer Sustainable Connections hosted a workshop to educate restaurants and food-based businesses about ways they can reduce the amount of wasted food in their operations. One of the biggest myths we are working to overcome is that everything is hunky...
Alluvial Farms
HIGH QUALITY PASTURED PORK FOR THE PUGET SOUND By Caitlin Singer With 13 years of combined farming experience, Katie Pencke and Matthew McDermott are practiced and accomplished farmers. From their roots in educational agriculture, they’re currently...
The Local: Drink, Eat, and Be Local
The Local crew: Head Chef Matt Hansen, Owners Ben Buccarelli and Tom Raden, and Front of House Manager Jacqueline Goddard Their cozy and warm ambience is great for any occasion Many know Menace Brewing and their small dynasty. With The...
The No Good, Very Bad Week In Food Waste
Along with active kids come packed schedules with varying soccer practice times and after school commitments and when combined with a few late nights of work on the parent side and you have a recipe for wasted food.
Cedarville Farm: Growing Organically Since 1989
Kim and Mike Finger with their daughter and pup on the farm. Photo by Diane Padys Mike working hard on the farm! Photo by Diane Padys We forget what freshly tilled soil smells like after it rains. We don’t know how talkative, or observant, a...
My Housing Story
Everyone has a housing story. Whether you've told it to many people or you've kept it private, there is likely a story about where you live now and how you got there. Maybe it's a feel good story that you are proud of or maybe it's one you rather wouldn't share. If...
Serving you better, all of us together: We dive into the New Minimum Wage law, how that effects local farmers, food businesses and YOU!
Whether we see a slight increase in prices, a switch to service charges or other kinds of solutions, it is important for us to remember all that it takes to bring us a delicious plate of food.
Triple Wren Farms: Fresh, local, beautiful flowers
It’s hard to describe how lovely a flower farm in the fall makes you feel. Sitting out in camping chairs directly between rows of exuberant dahlias and towering sunflowers, some at the zenith of their bloom and others that were slowly turning to seed, the air...
Down in the Dumpster
The end result of our work, when done right is not an new Living Building, solar array or local menu item. Quite the contrary and somewhat paradoxically the result is next to nothing.
Uncork and Unwind with the Vault Wine Bar
There’s a brand new spot that just opened up in Blaine that we’d like to introduce you too: The Vault Wine Bar. It comes by its name honestly as the building used to be a bank, and the original vault replete with its safe deposit boxes, still occupies a special...