BVM: OMG Seattle Works Day!

Greetings All!

Seattle Works Day....what can one say? To capture the day in a few words, a haiku felt appropriate:

Seattle Works Day
amazing and fun
plants, smiles, old friends and new
tacos, laughs and beer!

Our team headed to Magnuson Park Community Center for Seattle Works Day this Saturday.  What a beautiful day for planting!  The gang recruited friends, co-workers and partnered with another group from Corbis to help out with this event.  We planted native shrubs, ferns and groundcover plants throughout the landscape. We also learned various facts about worm poop,  lovingly massaging soil in potted plants to help the roots out and more. Overall a success! We headed to the SWD after party @ Seattle Center for tacos, beer, flip cup and merriment.

Until next time!
Beer View Mirrors

BVM: Sunny Saturday @ Marra Farms!

Greetings! So the BVM Crew got out our green thumbs and headed back to Marra Farms in South Park on a delightfully sunny Saturday for a morning of weeding, planting and composting.  Marra Farm is a urban community farm engaging people in sustainable agriculture and education while enhancing local food security.  Marra has over 4 acres of historic preserved farmland, and generated over 22,000 pounds of food last year.  Whoa! We made a lot of progress @ the farm during our time there.

Our team headed to Pecoras after for some Pizza, Beer and mingling with the other SW teams.  We polished the afternoon off with a stop to Molly Moons in Capitol Hill, followed by laying in a food coma in Cal Anderson Park.  Note to self: remember sunscreen—it’s ok to ask for help!

Until next time,

BVM

BVM Eats!

If you haven't noticed, the team likes to eat and drink... a lot!

Here are some fun gatherings we had the past couple of months:

Eating at BBQ Pete's in Kent, WA.

If you happen to find yourself in the area, definitely stop by! We beat the lunch rush, AND they have a complimentary soft serve ice cream station!

Early summer barbecue with wine :)

We LOVE the Mariners! Hope you do too!

Brunch at Roxy's - so good!!!!

BVM @ the Farmers' Market!

For our 3rd Challenge this season we were at the Sunday Fremont Market having a great time checking out the local scene and grubbing on local food!

Eating at the Fremont Sunday Market!!! We decided on grubbing at Maximus Minimus, I finally got to try it, although I still had to wait 30 mins in line. :(

The season just begun so make sure you stop by one of these days!!! Enjoy!

BVM @ Northwest Harvest

Hello All!

For the month of April, the team volunteered at one of our favorite organizations, Northwest Harvest. If you have been reading along with us you saw we were there just last season!

Another thing we also did was we donated a ton of food, about 30lbs + of food to Northwest Harvest!

As always, we enjoy our time working with different organizations at NW Harvest. Just a little thing about the organization:

Northwest Harvest is the only non-profit food bank distributor operating statewide in Washington with a network of over 325 food banks, meal programs and high-need schools. We provide over 1.6 million meals every month to this network.

Amazing!!! Let us know if you would like to help out too, we can direct you to the right people!

Thank you!

BVM