Learn about wetlands through fun art projects and an outdoor scavenger hunt. Then, find out how LOTT cleans up our urban wastewater at the Budd Inlet Treatment Plant and the steps taken to protect Puget Sound. A slideshow followed by a treatment plant tour begins at 1pm. Tour participants must be ten years or older and wear closed-toe, closed-heel shoes.

Groundwater, aquifers, wells – oh my! This 2pm presentation will help you understand what groundwater is, how we rely on it, how it can become contaminated, and what you can do to protect it. Following the presentation, we’ll make edible aquifers out of ice cream, cookies, and soda water!

Growing herbs is a great way for kids to learn about gardening. They’ll love having their own mini garden to tend and will enjoy seeing their herbs used in the kitchen. Come decorate an herb container and plant some seeds to take home and grow.  

Come in at 2pm to discover mythical sea creatures from around the world and close to home. Learn about scary, deep-sea legends from different cultures and the real-life inspirations for many of those stories. Flex your creative muscles and design your own Puget Sound-inspired marine myth with the all-day Create-a-Creature workshop in the classroom! 

Did you know that Washington designated the green darner dragonfly as the official state insect in 1997? It’s true! Dragonflies are beautiful to look at and are important in our ecosystems. Let’s celebrate this amazing insect through a variety of fun crafts. Join Stream Team and Dr. Dennis Paulson for a fascinating talk and fieldtrip covering the life of dragonflies. This is a workshop you don’t want to miss. Lecture 10-11:30am, followed by a trip to a local wetland. Visit www.streamteam.info to register, or contact Michelle at mstevie@ci.olympia.wa.us for more information.

The Panorama Arts Guild has an exhibit at the Washington Performing Arts Center until July 9.  The link will take you to a video about the opening for the exhibit.  Panorama is a continuing care retirement community in Lacey.

https://vimeo.com/170524954

I was able to create my first standalone app for Google Play™.
With the app, you can find over 500 historic sites in Olympia on your tablet or smart phone. You will be able to see what historic sites are near you, and by clicking on the red marker find out more about the site, including then-and-now images, a description of the site, and links to more information. The content is from the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum website.

Download the app to your Android™ device by searching for Olympia History on Google Play™ or by visiting the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum website.

If there  is an Apple developer out there who wants to help, we can get this up on the Apple app store as well.  Contact me through the historical society, if interested.

Join Capitol Land Trust on a kayak tour of lower Eld Inlet.  Please bring your own kayak.  We will be launching from Triple Creek Farm Conservation Easement, a property conserved by Capitol Land Trust in Olympia, and will paddle south to visit another conserved property, McLane Point.  If the tides are right we could even travel to two additional conserved properties at the southern-most tip of Eld Inlet: the Randall Preserve and Lower Eld Estuary Preserve.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
5:30 PM
Lower Eld Inlet, Olympia

This is a free event. Registration is required at info@capitollandtrust.org

Jereme Zimmerman will present his new book, "Make Mead Like a Viking: Traditional Techniques for Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermented, Honey-Based Wines and Beers."

This is a free event at Orca Books, 509 4th Ave E. in downtown Olympia.

Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads, ales, and wines for millennia using only intuition, storytelling, and knowledge passed down through generations no fancy, expensive equipment or degrees in chemistry needed. In "Make Mead Like a Viking", homesteader, fermentation enthusiast, and self-described Appalachian Yeti Viking Jereme Zimmerman summons the bryggjemann of the ancient Norse to demonstrate how homebrewing mead, arguably the world's oldest fermented alcoholic beverage, can be not only uncomplicated but fun. Armed with wild-yeast-bearing totem sticks, readers will learn techniques for brewing sweet, semi-sweet, and dry meads, melomels (fruit meads), metheglins (spiced meads), Ethiopian tej,  flower and herbal meads, braggots, honey beers, country wines, and even Viking grog!

Jereme Zimmerman grew up on his parents northern Kentucky goat farm, Twin Meadows, where he was also homeschooled. After graduating from Berea College in Kentucky, he moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he immersed himself in the world of homebrewing. As the world's only peace-loving, green-living Appalachian Yeti Viking, Zimmerman writes, blogs, and speaks regularly on fermentation, mead-making, homesteading, and good eating.

Saturday, July 16, 2016
10 AM
Steamboat Peninsula, Olympia

The ride will start at the Wynne Tree Farm, a 530-acre working tree farm at the base of the Steamboat Peninsula. Riders will travel along the road that parallels this property, and will be able to see the beautiful, and vast, forest and fresh water areas that comprise this property, and that are permanently conserved by Capitol Land Trust and the Wynne family.

The short ride travels up the Peninsula and will stop at Frye Cove Park. Riders can take a short (approximately 1/3 mile) walk to the beach, and will enjoy the scenery while having a snack at the picnic tables. Riders will learn about conservation on the Steamboat Peninsula, especially about a hopeful addition to CLT’s conserved areas which is next to Frye Cove and is home to a half mile of Frye Cove Creek, the stream that drains to Frye Cove and that contains important salmon spawning habitat. After this stop, riders will ride back to the Wynne Tree Farm.