WIWS Mayfaire Celebration

 

Martin Luther King Work Day

A great way to celebrate MLK and help out your community!  Any other ideas?
(click on the poster to see a larger view)

Don't Miss this One: Whidbey Island Farm Tour this Weekend!

Bur Oak Acres, picture courtesy Bill McInvaille, 2008

http://whidbeyfarmtour.wordpress.com/

Looks like there will be many great farms on the tour this year.  It is definitely worth taking part in if you ahve any interest in food, farming, Whidbey Island, or animals!  The tour is self-guided and will be this Saturday and Sunday October 3rd and 4th from 10-4.  Also checkout the Farm Tour website for special events and maps/directions to the farms.  Here are the farms taking part in the tour this year, click on them to get more information on any particular farm:

• A Knot In Thyme
• Bur Oak Acres
• Case Farm
• Chocolate Flower Farm
• CSA Training Center at Greenbank Farm
• Forget Me Not Farms
• Good Cheer Garden
• Greenbank Cellars
• Horse Tales Nursery
• Hummingbird Farm Nursery and Gardens
• Island Bliss Alpacas
• Lavender Wind Farm
• Lord’s Garden and M&M Flowers
• M Bar C Ranch
• Penn Cove Shellfish
• Rosehip Farm & Garden – Cancelled for 2009 Farm Tour
• Sonshine Alpacas
• Whidbey Island Vineyards & Winery
• Wildwood Farm
• Willowood Farm

Flying High this Weekend?

Whidbey Island Kite Festival this weekend, September 26th and 27th at Fort Casey!  Should be lots of fun.  Visit the Whidbey Island Kite Flyers website for more information: http://www.whidbeykites.org/

or http://www.whidbeykiteclub.com/.  Word has it that the festival is from about 9 AM to 3 PM, but I would check those times, just in case.  There will be many fun events, including kite making for the kids.

Above: Kites at Fort Casey, picture courtesy http://www.whidbeykiteclub.com/gallery.asp?Category=Fun%20Flys

For fun, visit this person's web stream of pictures that are taken form atop their kite, above Fort Casey!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30901290@N03/