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by Jenny Krueger August greetings! Jenny Krueger here, Lead Gardener & Educator with the Anacortes Middle School Garden Project. Last spring, I enjoyed introducing students to seasonal foods with brief “Spotlight on a Plant” talks to open class. Now, I am pleased to expand these spotlights with a series of blog posts that I am calling The Wheel of the Garden. Each month over the next year, I will share deep dives into a plant that is a seasonal touchstone for me in my garden and others on...

By Sara Jo Kinslow, Eco-Restore December 5, 2025 The Shape of Change At the edge of winter on Fidalgo Island, the landscape feels suspended—quiet, breathing, waiting. The alder leaves along the Guemes Channel have fallen, their scent mingling with salt and cedar as tides lap softly against the rocky shore. On still mornings, fog drifts low through the evergreens at Washington Park, and everything seems to pause between inhale and exhale. This is the season of slow transformation—when the...

The Power of Edges by Sara Jo Kinslow There’s a quiet brilliance to Fidalgo Island in November. Walk the bluff at Rosario Head after a storm, and you’ll feel it—the edge where madronas cling to rock, their roots gripping cracks as waves crash below. The air carries salt and cedar in equal measure. The land and sea trade stories here, and everything alive seems to listen. In permaculture, we call this living conversation “the edge.” It’s the space where two worlds meet, and in that meeting,...