The Spovangelist

This has been a season for cycling city wide tours. After biking to four different locations on the Green + Solar Home Tour following Spokefest, I thought why not take the same route for the 3rd annual Spokane Community Garden Tour? Garden-goer listens to Connie explain the Riverfront Farms story. We started at the popular [...]

By The Revelator I recently went back East to visit family and friends. I discovered that “home” no longer felt so homey. By the end of my trip I was looking forward to coming back to Spokane. What is it about this place that has caused me to shift my perception of home? In short, [...]

There are things people need, and then there are things people need on multiple levels. A garden is one of those things that will enrich the bodies, minds and spirits of generations to come. But before there was a plan to build a garden at the Salvation Army campus on Indiana, there was a motley [...]

Over the last year I’ve gotten all fired up over rooftop gardens as a means of growing nutritious food without the use of chemicals or genetically modified organisms. Rooftop farms improve food security, benefit city residents, the natural environment and the local economy in a variety of interesting and unexpected ways. Outstanding examples of rooftop [...]

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately … I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. The reasons Thoreau once gave for his retreat into the forest near Walden Pond are eerily similar to our own reasons for moving to Spokane last month after ten years [...]