Saturday Farmers’ Market Farmers’ Market is in Eastsound at the Village Green from 10-3 from May to September. In the fall, the cool weather pushes it indoors to the Odd Fellows Hall, which feels warm, cozy, and homey. Summer Solstice Parade Beginning at 12:00, it might only last 15 …
Parenting isn’t easy, but this is new territory we never learned to navigate through our parents’ examples. Will play dates involve actual playing or virtual playing? Will going to the library result in browsing for great books or salivating over the shoulder of another boy playing Roblox? Will owning a …
When you visit Orcas Island there will be several places you’ll seek out in town: A basic grocery store – Island Market A local/organic/non-GMO grocery store – The Co-op A pharmacy and place for everything from cheap readers and Depends to cards, toys, and gifts – Ray’s Pharmacy A coffee …
It’s only June but it’s that time of year. Wood seasons over time; it can’t be freshly cut if you want a good, hot fire. We might not have been as on top of it had we not won an auction item at a shindig benefitting the Orcas Island Museum. …
For most of my young life I figured I had to exercise vigorously every day in order to be fit. I did sports, I jogged, I hiked, I biked, I did just about everything except boring myself at a gym. Then one day I made the connection that one of …
I love that our 12-year-old loves to photograph flowers. His photography prowess on his weightless iPod is fast exceeding mine on my heavy Canon. He has a ripe portrait studio in his garden plot of catnip, lilies, lupin, lavender, oregano, snapdragons, a maple tree he nurtured from a seed, a …
We moved here six years ago for the peace. The tranquility. The relative isolation. Orcas Island is slow paced and visually stunning. Unadulterated natural beauty is what makes it so unique, unlike most of the rest of the world that is busy building and building. We’ve realized that Orcas isn’t …
The local Orcas Island Food Co-op offers some of the most interesting classes. Last year the boys and I went on a walk through Eastsound with botanist and cell biologist Ryan Drum to find local edible and medicinal herbs right in our midst. A few months later we learned to …
We moved to Orcas Island six years ago, and we visited the island for six summers before that. One of the first places we were familiar with was Howe Art, the residence and workplace we passed each day when we walked or drove up the road to the bed and …
I love that Orcas Island has a lot of second-hand options, and The Exchange really brings it home that nothing is worth paying retail prices. Dream up anything you need around the house, the garden, or the tool shed, and you just might find it on any given day at …
There are opportunities on little Orcas Island that are unlike anything we’ve experienced in other places. One of our family’s favorites is Young Eagles Day. Once a year in June, a bunch of island pilots with small planes volunteer their time to take kids 8-17 years old up in the …
