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Retro reality: Seattle looks back as life goes forward

Fri, Apr 20, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Winners and losers: Commies with errant missles, hookers getting close to the White House, fears of a nuclear test. And all of it while Seattle celebrates a 50-year-old event. Is this the Mad Men, Part Deux?

Poison ivy, unholy holly, and lax weed laws

Thu, Apr 19, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

Washington backs off from declaring invasive holly a weed and banning forest-smothering ivy, but Oregon takes a tougher approach.

Midday Scan: Ms get political about new arena plan

Wed, Apr 4, 11:08 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

Perhaps looking out for themselves and their own future, the Mariners send a strongly worded letter to city and county leaders telling them to go somewhere else with the new arena.

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The Gates Foundation opens its gates, or a few windows

Wed, Mar 28, 2 a.m.

By Dick Nelson

The new visitor center's vivid, heartfelt displays tell the story of the foundation's globe-spanning philanthropic ambitions, and of the enormous work that waits to be done.

Midday Scan: Washington 'a profile in female-political representation'

Tue, Mar 27, 11:10 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

Women serving in public office in Washington have been as "consistent as rain," from the first female governor, elbow-throwing Dixy Lee Ray, to current legislators such as the irascible Democratic state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, who panders to nobody.

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A few spots available for Crosscut Food Forest tour

Wed, Mar 7, 2:51 p.m.

By Berit Anderson

Love the idea of a community-driven forest of food? Come meet the folks behind the Beacon Hill Food Forest and tour the site.

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Storefront mushroom farm opens in Pioneer Square

Wed, Feb 29, 2 a.m.

By Amy Pennington

Pioneer Square window shoppers can now peruse art, antiques, and the mushroom farm that has popped up in the storefront of architectural firm, Olson Kundig.

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Learning to be an oyster farmer: first, there's eating the oyster

Mon, Feb 20, 2 a.m.

By Lissa James

If you're going to talk with the restaurant people and meet their needs, you have to be familiar with their favored way of serving oysters: raw.

Urban agriculture in Canada: changing restaurant food, too

Sun, Feb 19, 7:45 p.m.

By Ronald Holden

A 100-acre urban farm near the Vancouver airport is making a difference in how people think about their food.

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With gardens like these, who needs a SAD lamp?

Fri, Feb 17, 2 a.m.

By Jackie Hiltz

Two Seattle winter gardens provide a boost to the seasonally affected during winter's long months.

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Nation's largest public Food Forest takes root on Beacon Hill

Thu, Feb 16, 2 a.m.

By Robert Mellinger

After nearly three years of planning, Beacon Hill residents are breaking ground on what will be the nation's largest public food forest.

Will taxpayers be taken for a ride on new state irrigation plans?

Wed, Feb 15, 2 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

There's a lot of revision going on to make the numbers support irrigation expansion in Eastern Washington. While environmentalists worry, the state plunges forward under a 2006 law.

Will the last farmer to leave Puget Sound please wish us luck?

Wed, Feb 1, 2 a.m.

By Berit Anderson

Better yet, says a new report, we should develop conservation tactics that do a better job of protecting farmland from development.

Groundwater mismanagement lets giant feedlots drink their fill

Thu, Jan 19, noon

By Cally Carswell

A loophole in Washington's groundwater laws means large-scale cattle operations like Eastern Washington's Easterday Ranches can deplete as much groundwater as they want -- no permit necessary.

From Silicon Valley to Skagit Valley: A new farm incubator

Wed, Jan 4, 2 a.m.

By Jennifer Langston

A new Skagit Valley farm incubator, Viva Farms, gives aspiring farmers the support they need to get off the ground in the hardscrabble world of farming.