Category Archives: Events

Viking Days

Saturday-Sunday July 11th-12th
Viking Days – 10 AM – 5 PM at the Nordic Heritage Museum.  Unique Scandinavian entertainment, food, arts & craft and real live Vikings!  For more info call 789-5707.

Picnic at the Precinct

Get a Precinct tour and meet your local police officers, S.W.A.T., K-9, Bomb Squad, and mounted officers!  Fun for the whole family.  Great food, magicians, balloonist, bouncy machine, music, and dance groups.  For more info contact Neil Hanson at neil.hanson@seattle.gov

Saturday, July 11th
1- 4 PM
Seattle Police Dept’s North Precinct,
10049 College Way.

Healthy Soils Seminar at Swansons, June 13th

Sun. June 13, 11:00 am
Healthy Soils create a Heathy Garden for a Healthy You
The nutrition your fruits and vegetables provide you, is only as good as the nutrition you provide your soil. In this seminar, you will receive helpful tips and learn about how you can improve the health of your soils for a healthy vegetable garden and a healthy you! Soil structure and biology of the living soil will be discussed. Led by Gretchen Taylor, organics educator, Dr Earth Company.

Lavender Day at Swanson’s June 12th, 2010

Lavender Day at Swansons!  Discover Cooking with Lavender
Sat. June 12, 10:00 am
Growing Lavender
Swansons herb expert, Rolf Hokansson shares tips from his experience and guides you through the enticing list of lavender varieties available. Whether for cooking, aromatherapy or cocktails Rolf will help you with selection and growing techniques for this favorite herb.

Sat. June 12, 11:00
Discover Lavender: Fragrance, Beauty, Flavor & Taste
Kathy Gehrt will share her knowledge about harvesting and cooking with lavender. Lavender adds color, fragrance and beauty to your garden. In the kitchen, lavender adds flavor to drinks, pastries, salads, soups and entrees. Kathy will demonstrate how to dry roast lavender to create a rustic, earthy taste that brings out the best in vegetables, salmon, halibut, chicken and beef. In addition, Kathy will demonstrate how to create lavender infusions and lavender seasoning blends.