Kick off spring and get your veggie garden underway with Seattle Tilth's Edible Plant Sale!  Our mild maritime climate makes it possible to grow food year round. When much of the country is still in deep freeze, we are planting peas and greens, and harvesting full salads! Jump-start your spring gardening by picking-up your cool weather plant starts at our March Edible Plant Sale on March 16.

We've moved to a new location this year at Pacific Market Center, easy to access from I-5 and Hwy 99. Sign up to volunteer and get into the Early Bird Sale for free on Friday, March 15 or purchase a ticket and help raise extra funds!

There will be another plant sale in May.  If you know of any local sales, shoot us an email at ckchapman@redmond.gov or leave a comment below!

Our friends over at King County have a very cool new tool to help you live more sustainably!  Localize Sustainability helps you calculate and improve your sustainability profile to save money, improve health, and lighten your environmental footprint.

We loved that you can compare Redmond and your neighborhood against other neighborhoods in King County.  Another neat feature was seeing the "real time" impact your lifestyle is having on not only the environment, but your health!  By incorporating a few of the website's suggested lifestyle changes we were able to see exactly how many calories, dollars, and pounds of CO2 we would save!  The website also has a great list of resources for residents looking for sustainable solutions.

Check it out and let us know what you think!  http://green.kingcounty.gov/localize/

The winter cold can seem like a pretty good reason to stay indoors.  But those who make the effort to don layers of hats, gloves, and scarves will be rewarded.    Redmond resident John Reinke took this fantastic picture of winter frost transforming some of the landscaping down by the Redmond Senior Center.

As John said, "The attached photos were taken on late Friday afternoon, outside of the Redmond Senior Center.  Thursday night was very foggy and cold, so that the fog sublimated into frost directly onto the beds of ornamental grass outside of the Senior Center. By late Friday afternoon, most of the frost had been transformed by the sun into miniature droplets on or near the tips of the ornamental grass fronds." 

It might not be the season to stop and smell the roses, but as John has demonstrated, slowing down to admire the frost can be just as pleasant!

If you have any pictures of nature around Redmond or stories you'd like to share, be sure and email us at impactredmond@redmond.gov!