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Interbay set to get more tiny houses
By Jessica Keller QA&Mag News editor
The tiny house village in Interbay will significantly increase in size this summer when the site expands to accommodate even more tiny homes.
Representatives from the Port of Seattle, which owns the prop-
erty, Seattle District 7 Councilmember Andrew Lewis, Low Income Housing Institute and community members gathered Wednesday at the village on 15th Avenue West to announce the planned expansion.
Pending Port of Seattle and Seattle City Council approval, about 30 new tiny houses and an
additional hygiene station will be built at the existing location on 15th Avenue West, which was originally established in 2017.
Port Commissioner Stephanie Bowman said the Interbay tiny house village is the only Port property that has tiny houses on site.
The Port leases the land to the
city, which contracts with LIHI to operate the location. Currently, the site serves 50 men and women and three children in 40 houses.
Once complete, the expansion will make the Interbay tiny house village the largest in the state with 76 houses.
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Successful season openers
Local farmers markets draw sizable crowds
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With masks on and children and dogs in tow, Queen Anne and Magnolia residents welcomed back their respective farmers markets, last week.
In Magnolia, 29 vendors set up on McCaw Street in Magnolia Village for the opening day Saturday.
In Queen Anne, 50 vendors set up on Crockett Street for opening day of Queen Anne’s Thursday market, which is celebrating its 15th year. Market Director Matt Kelly said this season drew 4,932 shoppers, a respectable number that indicates more people’s willingness to return to normal summer activities.
“It’s a lot more than last year, but still less than what we would have in a typical season,” Kelly said.
He said market staff and volunteers did a good job ensuring everything ran smoothly.
“I was really pleased to see all of our growers back and excited to engage with the shoppers,” Kelly said.
He said June is “a great time for various harvests coming in,” and visitors seemed to appreciate having so many choices for fresh produce, including strawberries
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A customer buys some fresh strawberries from Hayton Farms Berries at the Magnolia Farmers Market Saturday in Magnolia Village. While the market was closed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the popular Saturday event drew many residents Saturday on its first day of the new season.
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Jackie was born in Seattle on December 29, 1929 to Francis and Addie Haw and brought up in Rainier Valley. Before Jackie graduated from Holy Rosary High School in 1947, she won many city-wide awards in oratory, debate and writing. She participated in theater, held various leadership roles, and was crowned princess and queen various times. Jackie stayed in close contact with her high school classmates. She continued her education at Seattle College (now Seattle University). She met and married Jim Rafferty in 1950 and they settled into a tiny house next to her parents. Following the birth of their third child, they bought a large, classic house on Queen Anne Hill which Jackie continued to live in for 62 years. Jackie’s home was her pride and joy and home to their seven children. In addition to caring for her large family, she became a skillful painter, seamstress, gardener and active church member. When the kids moved away, Jackie welcomed many foreign university students into her residence. She nurtured lifelong relationships with many students introducing them to American culture with her kindness. She was employed at Salladay’s Standard Pharmacy for many years. Being a lifelong learner, she traveled to many of the world’s most famous and historic places.
Jackie, 91, died peacefully on May 22, 2021 at Bayview Retirement Community in the company of her loving family. She is survived by daughters Leslie Feaster, Nancy Riedel, Karole Schurman, Mary Bugenski, Julie Rafferty; sons Donovan and Jimmy Rafferty; their respective spouses; brother Frank Haw, 11 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren, and niece/nephews Gwen, Michael and Gregory Haw. She was preceded in death by her parents and former husband, Jim Rafferty.
Realtor hosting scaled-back shredding event
Back by popular demand, local realtor Ken Graff will host his annual secure document paper shredding event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 12. After taking a pause for the event in 2020, Graff decided this year’s event will be more scaled back, with a quick drop-off of documents.
The shredding event takes place in the lower park-
ing lot at the AGC Building, 1200 Westlake Ave N. Participants should follow the signs down the ramp, and Graff will validate parking tickets.
Graff hopes to once again offer a full event, including electronic recycling, clothing and household donations and vendor Dante’s Inferno Seattle Dogs, next year.
Next Initiative on Community Engagement features King County Council member
King County Councilperson Jeanne Kohl-Welles is the guest speaker at the next Initiative on Community Engagement meeting, hosted by Queen Anne Community Council members. The meeting will take place remotely at 7 p.m. June 23.
Kohl-Welles will give an update on legislation and work that has been done at the county level this year
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Seattle Center hosts variety of events in June
Seattle Center is hosting a number of different events through June.
• Seattle Iranian Festival, Saturday, June 26, deepens community and understanding of the rich Iranian culture through poetry, music, traditional and modern dance and more. Seattlecenter.com/festal.
• A/NT Gallery — This cooperative serves local artists with an imaginative and highly collaborative mix of exhibits and activities, including an interactive digital exhibit featuring works by its members: www. antgallery.org.
• Climate Pledge Arena—Virtual Job Fair for Climate Pledge Arena, 5:30 p.m., June 24. Learn more at climatepledgearena.com/contact/jobs.
• Pacific Northwest Ballet —PNB REP 6 streams June 10–14. It features two world premiere, Curious Kingdom, music by Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie and songs performed by Edith Piaf; choreography by Christopher Wheeldon; and Untitled with music by Oliver Davis and Choreography: Edwaard Liang. PACOPEPEPLUTO, music: Songs by various composers, sung by Dean Martin and Joe Scalissi and choreography: Alejandro Cerrudo. Bonus content for season subscribers and Digital Performance Plus ticketholders include an archival release of Edwaard Liang’s Distant Cries. More at www.pnb. org/season/rep6.
• Seattle Opera — Streaming Tosca, starting at 7 p.m., June 25 (for three days). Tickets at: secure.seattleopera.org/streaming/tosca.
• Seattle Rep — Kilroys Club, 11 a.m., June 12, the Rep’s monthly play reading group, looks at FLEX by Candrice Jones, set in 1997, when Cynthia Cooper ruled the WNBA. She and her four teammates make a pact to stick together come hell or high water. However, the realities of living life in rural Arkansas may tear them apart. Register at:https:// www.seattlerep.org/audience-programs/upcomingevents/kilroys-club. Artivism: Doing the Work is on the table at the Rep’s Masterclass Mondays, 5 p.m., June 14. It will discuss the meeting of Artistry and Activism using the experience of teaching artist Christin Byrdsong’s experience as a performer who is black and queer, combining that with his work as a social activist and diversity consultant. Registration required at https://www.seattlerep.org/audience-programs/upcoming-events/masterclass-mondays. Plays in Process: A Ritchie Valens Musical, 7:30 p. m., June 24, exploring the creation of this musical, which imagines a world where the plane landed without incident and Valens’ skyrocketing career would have continued unabated. www.seattlerep.org/audienceprograms/newplay/plays-in-process/a-ritchie-valensmusical
• Cinema DNA: Get Out and the Black Perspective, Reel Black: Afrofuturism and What The Femme: Costuming the Final Frontier. Learn more, register and buy tickets at SIFF.net.
Life is complicated. Personally, politically, there is so much to contend with. It’s all so trying. It keeps us up at night. And yet, when I look outside and see starbursts of rhododendron and irises standing tall on stems strong as arms, I am filled with hope.
In the silence of reading
Without hesitating — without thinking, really — I say aloud to the plants, “Thank you.” Sometimes you just have to say the words.
In nature, it takes so little to assure me.
Outside of the natural world, I’m not sure of anything anymore. Wait, except that last statement. I am sure of this: After I’ve found my words for the day, I want to see people. Embrace people.
Even the stock clerk at Trader Joe’s who searched the back for another box of olive oil potato chips just because I asked him to. I want to hug him.
Contact makes a huge difference in our lives.
We have mourned its absence on a magnified level. Email, a text, social media, Zoom (especially
Zoom) is not the definition of contact. Contact is the state or condition of physical touching.
Oh, I have missed the ease of it.
Of course, getting to say this is why I write. What still surprises me is that someone will likely disagree and then email to say, in anger (more often than not), how mistaken I am.
And I will wonder again: When did we grow so impatient with each other’s opinions? Has it always been like this? My mother used to say, “The division today is nothing compared to the war years.”
I stopped reminding her that we’ve been in — and too briefly out of — “war years” my entire life.
But I have noticed other readers of this column are far more appreciative than before 2020. Perhaps, like me, they relish life on this whole new meaningful level.
In so many ways, we have come
“It’s just impossible to NOT have an open mind if you read books where we are allowed to enter the mind of another and discover so many different ways to see the world and ourselves within it, and I had begun to see that this was exactly what my parents were most afraid of. Not to mention that priest.”
to know ourselves better. And our limits. Which we have reached. Over and over. And over.
And still, we hang in there.
I am also sure of this: I prefer less tension in the world, who doesn’t?
So, if it were left to me — of course it is, since I’m the one writing this — if a pandemic had not intervened, I would have started by saying what I had been writing prior to March 2020. Even though, after all we’ve been through, it sounds a little innocent. But I must have been headed toward innocence all along simply by writing about the child I was.
Every now and again, I like to remember that child. The way she hid behind the sectional couch to read the encyclopedias her parents so proudly bought and then never used.
I love the way that girl loved books. And whenever that image comes to mind, I also remember
overhearing our priest tell my mother not to let me read too much, as books would “fill my head with ideas.”
And you know what? They did. Books helped me to cope with every swell of emotional stress in their own candid, the-world-isso-much-bigger-than-you way.
They still do. I read about other people and what concerns them and I think, how bad can the future really be?
One thing remains constant as the tide rising and ebbing, rising and ebbing: The most welladjusted people I meet read a lot of books.
Sooner or later everything begins to change about my perception of the world. But not this. Readers naturally want to know more about what goes on in the minds of others. They seem to understand that sharing our inner life is what it means to be human, and that this curiosity,
this approach to openness, is why we are here.
See, that’s the thing. Books open the mind, and when I snuck behind the couch to read, I was lost, and when I look back at my life, this was the first real fork in my road.
I knew that books would be my future — reading them and later, writing them. It’s just impossible to NOT have an open mind if you read books where we are allowed to enter the mind of another and discover so many different ways to see the world and ourselves within it, and I began to see that this was exactly what my parents were most afraid of. Not to mention that priest.
In the silence of all my reading, so much was being said. I read somewhere that we should feel cleansed after writing. Cleansed, because so much truth has been let out.
Sometimes, I shake my head at just how much truth.
— Mary Lou Sanelli, author, speaker and master dance teacher, has written numerous non-fiction titles. Her first novel, “The Star Struck Dance Studio of Yucca Springs,” was published in 2019. Her newest collection of essays, “Every Little Thing,” will be released in September. To read more about her and her work visit www. marylousanelli.com.
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Why are some berries poisonous?
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A lot of living things on our planet have defenses they use in the wild to help them survive. For some plants, being poisonous may help keep them from becoming someone’s dinner.
That’s what I found out from my friend Wendy HoashiErhardt, a scientist who directs the Small Fruit Plant Breeding program at Washington State University.
Berries like deadly nightshade, holly berries and snowberries — just to name a few — are not safe for humans to eat. These kinds of plants naturally produce poisonous compounds in their berries.
You may remember that everything in our universe, including berries, is made up of atoms. When the atoms come together, they form compounds. Those compounds can sometimes form in a way that interfere with the work your body’s cells are doing to try and keep you healthy.
In fact, the poison from some berries may make insects, birds, animals and even humans really sick. That sends a kind of message or reminder to those creatures to avoid the plant and its berries in the future — or else they’ll likely get sick again.
Humans have even discovered different types of compounds in different berries that can make us sick. For instance, there are the toxic compounds in snowberries
and holly berries called saponins. Meanwhile, deadly nightshade contains compounds named trophine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine.
Throughout history, humans have actually learned quite a lot about which plants are dangerous to eat versus which ones are good to eat.
For the nutritious and delicious plants, humans have been able to take those plants and make them even more useful through a process called plant breeding, Hoashi-Erhardt said.
For example, we can take a raspberry and blackberry and cross them to create an entirely new berry called a tayberry.
Hoashi-Erhardt does a lot of work helping us breed raspberries and said scientists have different categories for what we call “berries.” Part of what makes a berry a true berry has to do with an organ in the plant called an ovary.
A raspberry, for instance, grows from a single raspberry flower. But that flower has many ovaries and they become all the little segments, which are called drupelets, that make up raspberry. It turns out a raspberry is not a true berry even though we call it a berry. Meanwhile, a blueberry comes from a single flower with just one ovary. Scientists call these berries that come from just one plant ovary “botanical berries.”
with just one ovary. I was surprised that means bananas and cucumbers are technically true berries, too.
It’s great to hear you are curious about berries, Bianca. They are truly an interesting part of the plant to observe. It’s also important to learn which types of
“This is not a solution for homelessness, but it is a very important step,” Bowman said at the event Wednesday.
Former tiny house village resident Bob Williamson, who recently moved into a studio apartment owned by LIHI in Capitol Hill, said the city needs more villages like the one in Interbay.
“If it wasn’t for LIHI and a place like this, I never would have made it into permanent housing,” Williamson said.
After Wednesday’s event, Lewis said he contacted Bowman at the port about expanding the Interbay site after walking past on the way to Met Market in January and noticed there was unused space next to the current village that could hold more houses.
Lewis, who has advocated for the city to build even more tiny house villages and sponsored his “It Takes a Village” campaign to identify future village locations, said the expansion at Interbay will be important in reducing the number of homeless encampments in the city.
“I think the encampment situation is an emergency,” Lewis said.
The proposed tiny house expansion in Interbay will accompany two other locations the Seattle Human Services Department selected to be new tiny house village sites this year.
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Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis, from left, whose district 7 includes Queen Anne, Magnolia and Interbay, speaks about the proposed expansion of the Interbay tiny house village on 15th Avenue, as former
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VILLAGE, FROM PAGE 1
You shape Magnolia’s future density
By Monica Wooton Guest Editorial
Nothing takes the place of your voice, your involvement, your shared expectations regarding the Albertsons/ Safeway development and its impact on the definition of the “sense of place” of this neighborhood — the place you set down roots, cared enough to raise a family in and call home: Magnolia.
Big change is on the horizon for our neighborhood. If you haven’t been involved before, now is the time to get involved. If you have, continue to let the city planner and developer/architects know what you think about the new seven-story Albertson’s to Safeway development in the Magnolia Village.
This design is being presented to you and the Design Review Board, whom you can influence through public commenting going on now.
I am smart enough to know that there is no stopping this development — so, I have stubbornly, conscientiously and dutifully agreed to help in the hard work of making this building
Local students named to UW Dean’s List
Students from the Magnolia/ Queen Anne area have been named to the Dean’s List at the University of Washington for Autumn 2020 Quarter.
To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must have completed at least 12 graded credits and have a grade point average of at least 3.50 (out of 4).
STUDENTS
Marian Laure Abadir
Nina Estella Adams
Kyra Linnea Almen
Sean Colin Anderson
Alejandro Arce-Torres
Max D Arnold
Ryan Burns Aust
Kylie Baker
Shivam Bakshi
Daniel J Banko
Rowan Asher Baranowski
Samantha Bayne
Yuval Berenstein
Caitlin Elizabeth Brenner
Emily M Broadbent
Audi Lynette Brown
Tallis Camellia Burke
Henry Taylor Scribant Burton
Jeffrey Campbell
Leah Alexandria Caragol
James E Carskaden
Ming Wang Chen
Chad Russell Cohen
Casey Kai Cooper
Zachary Costa
Vivian S Daigre
Carson Harrington Dauber
Jack Henry Deane
Kiera Dempsey
Nathan William Denke
Audrey Hope Donahue
Jeremy Roland Duffy
Logan Thomas Edwards
Johnathan James George Em-
erson
Emma Rose Forman
welcoming and welcomed into our neighborhood through collaboration and compromise with Security Properties, the developer, in the Albertson’s Advisory Council work.
I am writing this to let you know that the AAC work is much less influential or important than the work you can do by giving your input on this project’s design.
The AAC has worked hard and collaboratively to shape the development into much more than it was first proposed.
Bulk and mass, cohesion of design and materials are quite literally about to be carved in stone. The work of this group, while honest, earnest and demanding, is not a substitute for community members many opinions and ideas. You must speak up now!
I am not a fan of the city’s universal up-zoning and its uniform density overlay without regard to Seattle’s unique neighborhoods.
Romy Elizabeth Forster
Ryan Edward Friesz
Lewis J Fromberg
Ardon Fryer
Maria Helena Gleason
Elizabeth Carroll Gossman
Cameron Grane
Maria Gringauze
Mclaren Elizabeth Hadley
Kaden Max Hartle
Kate C Hatlen
Tennyson Laine Nerup Hawk
Bryce N Heinen
Vayden Emily Hicks
Ella Hileman-Kaplan
Paris Nicole Hodgson
Russell Steven Hoyt
Forrest Hsu
Eric Berton Hufnagel
Frances Jaynes
Nicole Elisabeth Johnson
Joel Peter Kestelyn
Victoria Joan Kippes
Eugene J Knoll
Olivia Lynn Knoll
Melissa Hoang Lang
Dayeon Lee
Olivia Gianna Leff
Luke Hawkins Levasseur
Jared Ordona Lim
Devon Ling-Efird
Jose Lins
Qingxiu Luo
Victor MacIel
Emily K MacLeod
Celia Nadine Mamallo
Isabelle Alejandra Marquez
Arisa Rei Marshall
Chloe M Marzio
Michael Paul Matherne
Amanda N Medved
Sara Michelassi
Brynn Leigh Miller
Cameron Sidney Miller
Edwin Runnels Miller
John L Misner
Natasha A Moini
Tyler Moore
Sophia P Moser
Seattle’s strength has long been its diverse neighborhoods, each with its own look and feel. Magnolia seems abandoned on that front with the upzoning in Magnolia’s village. But, that is another editorial!
I believe this building still has some Seattle design guideline lingering issues dealing with bulk, mass and transitions into the neighborhood, as well as some architecturally confusing language and cohesiveness issues in its current new design.
I think the Living Building Pilot program that the developer will be participating in to get an added story and extra floor-toratio area has some accountability problems. I am working on these issues on the AAC. As should all of you in participating by public commenting.
This building will stand on one side up to four+ taller, and on the other side up to three+ stories taller than the buildings it will sit next to. It will tower mightily over the long established one- and
Jarrid Sei Nakata
Vivian May Newman
Alex Nguyen
David R Ochsner
Marie Christine O’Connell
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Erik James Onsager
Abigail Orse
Jennifer K Osako
Noah Parker
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Emily Claire Petro
Divya Rangarajan
Helena Elizabeth Reischling
Alexander Reiss
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two-story homes and back yards of the single family zone across the alley from it.
It will take out their privacy, sunshine and ability to most likely use solar energy. It will be up to three+ stories taller than the two other tallest buildings in Magnolia — four-story condos both in the village — each building having about a fourth of the mass of this structure, with at least 1/6th the housing units.
Additionally, we know that this site and the requirements that Safeway proposes for its store make the massing and design options of a very big structure limited.
It would be irresponsible not to note this building will not fit in easily with the current Magnolia Village style of small, intimate shops, the quaint, newly reimagined village streetscape and the historical small town, island feel and pace of the Magnolia Village and neighborhood.
I writing this to remind you that you have the opportunity (I would like to write obligation) to speak up about your opinions for improvements — to help make the building serve our neighborhood well and fit in nicely!
Mileena Kenora Raeksa Ros
Christina Marie Mei Hua W
Savio
Elisabeth Marie Schnebele
Daniel Schuster
Madisyn Scribner
Samantha C Seaver
Andrea D Shaw
Thomesina Shaw
Aiden Bennett Sheckler
Matthew Bentley Shields
Mia Kumari Singh
Emma S Skillen
David Dmitrivich Smerkous
Elena S Spasova
Noah Gabriel Spitz
Jane B Stanley
Mikayla Erin Stone
Magnolians must stay in charge of our neighborhood’s future density, new developments and building designs.
To accomplish that means each of us must participate in the process of public commenting and design review occurring now on this first project of consequence coming our way!
Current public commenting on proposed building design is open now.
The plans and explanations for the building design can be found at Permit and Property Records — Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections page, Project # 3034353-LU, Design Review Recommendation Proposal, 44MG, 5/17/21. Write comments to: prc@seattle.gov. Plan to attend and speak at the public Design Review Board Zoom meeting at 5 p.m. June 23, Meeting: https://bit.ly/Mtg3034353; Listen Line: 206-207-1700; Passcode: 187 453 5676 Sgn up to comment, https://bit. ly/Comment3034353.
— Monica Wooton is the chairman of the Albertson’s Advisory Council.
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Sutherland
Beverly Afrilla Talakua
Shaurya Tathgir
Isabella Terrones
Louise Yangliu Thompson
John Paul Giang Tran
Olivia Grace Twilley
Emily Noelle Uematsu
Elysia Viengkham
Yennhi Yannie Vohoang
Isabella N Wagner
Lucas Jay Wathen
Joseph Patrick Wickenhauser
Mark Willard
Tally Jan Williams-Gurian
Scott Y T Yeung
Abigail L Zierman
Noxious Aquatic Weed Treatment
Notice of Comment Period
Northwest Aquatic Management, LLC located at 9727 Hwy 12 SW #369, Rochester, WA 98579 is seeking to acquire permit coverage under the Department of Ecology Aquatic Plant and Algae Management NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit jointly with local residents that live on Lake Washington in Lake Forest Park, Washington.
We are seeking coverage because we decided to use chemical methods to manage aquatic plants, algae or to perform phosphorus sequestration, and a permit from Ecology is required for this discharge. Our proposed project, where we plant to treat with chemicals as conditionally authorized by the general permit, includes the following geographical area: Residents that live along the Lake Forest Park, Sheridan Beach shoreline and neighborhood. The southernmost address is 14844 Beach Drive NE. The northern most point is the Lake Forest Park Community Center/Club. Initial control will target the noxious milfoil, elodea and nuisance submerged vegetation. Plants are currently restricting safe recreational use of the waterfront.
Ecology has made a SEPA determination of significance with the adoption of an existing environmental document for this proposal.
Any person desiring to present their views to the Department of Ecology regarding this application shall do so in writing within 30 days of the last date of publication of notice. Public notice will be published on 09 June 2021 and 16 June 2021. Comments must be submitted to the Department of Ecology to be considered. Any person interested in the department’s action of this application may notify the department of their interest within 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice.
Comments on our proposal may be emailed to aquaticpesticideperm@ecy.wa.gov or mailed to: Department of Ecology, Water Quality Program, Attn: Aquatic Pesticide Permit Manager, PO Box 478600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600.
Monica Wooton
June 09, 2021
and cherries.
“All of our berry farms sold out by 5 p.m. or so,” Kelly said, adding growers will be bringing even more to the market this week. “Nobody had berries left by the end of the day, let’s put it that way.”
Thursday’s market was exciting for more than just Kelly. Zachary Pacleb, co-owner of Brothers & Co. food booth, said it is nice to be back serving up food at farmers markets after not being able to in 2020.
While that hurt their bottom line, it also forced them to consider different ways of doing business, such as selling prepackaged food and taking other steps they will use when they open a brick-and-mortar store.
“We’re adapting as we go,” Pacleb said.
Ben Hanisko, who has been coming to the Queen Anne Farmers Market for about 10 years, said he tries each week to buy all his family’s produce from the market and is glad to see so many growers and other vendors back, as well as the residents supporting them.
“There’s a community aspect to this that is so nice,” Hanisko said.
Public safety rules and practices may loosen as restrictions lift as the season goes on, Kelly said, adding people should stay patient.
According to Queen Anne Farmers Market Director Matt Kelly, 4,932 people stopped by for opening day of the season Thursday on Crockett Street in Queen Anne. That number, while better than 2020’s opening day numbers, is still lower than the market would normally have.
The Queen Anne Farmer’s Market runs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays through October.
The Magnolia Farmers Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 25.
ABOVE: Emily Tzeng sets out some fresh greens at the Local Color booth before the Queen Anne Farmers Market started Thursday afternoon. Local Color, which specializes in Asian vegetables, is based out of Puyallup. Queen Anne’s is the only farmer’s market Local Color attends each year.
ABOVE LEFT: Zachary Pacleb, left, sautees some ingredients for a customer’s order as Johnny Fellin assists at the Brothers & Co. booth at Queen Anne Farmers Market Thursday. While vendors preparing food were allowed to return this year, at least for now, visitors cannot eat at the markets.
BOTTOM LEFT: One of the new vendors that will set up each week at the Queen Anne Farmers Market this season is The French Guys Bakery, based out of Seattle.
