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Your local laboratory in the San Juan Islands for the science to support good stewardship. Posts by @arbutocrat.bsky.social
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Join us for our 7th annual Camas Festival! A potluck featuring camas (Camassia leichtlinii) based dishes and presentations and discussion of camas cultivation. Saturday October 25th 12-3pm at the Stevens Center of the Padilla Bay National
Estuarine Research Reserve. www.kwiaht.org/calendar.htm
"To recover the islands’ Julia Orangetips, could we simply plant more of their preferred host plant? Tower Mustard is native to the San Juan Islands, easy to grow and a part of meadow restoration projects being carried out elsewhere."
Have we lost the Orangetip butterfly? | The Journal of the San Juan Islands
By Sophie Citro
www.sanjuanjournal.com
Our Camas Festival is moving to Padilla Bay this year! Save the date: Saturday October 25th for a camas focused potluck including a presentation by Sam Barr of the Coast Salish Youth Coalition on the revitalization of camas culture by Coast Salish youth.
More heritage apple events coming up in October! Our third annual apple tasting with the Orcas Museum is Saturday October 4th (12:30-2:30), and on October 11th we're joining the San Juan County Land Bank, apple ID expert Lori Brakken, and master orchardist Marguerite Greening for Apple-Palooza
The tasting scores for this year are in: Twenty Ounce was the favorite, followed by Esopus Spitzenburg and Glowing Coal. Our next tasting is Saturday October 4th at the Orcas Museum (12:30-2:30).
Some of the apples that will be at tomorrow's tasting with the Lopez Island History Museum:
Belmont
Esopus Spitzenburg
Fameuse
Gloria Mundi
Glowing Coal
Golden Ball
Gravenstein (including Olga Red Gravenstein)
King (of Tompkins County)
Greensweet
Northern Spy
Twenty Ounce
Wolf River
Third Annual Heritage Apple Day & Community Press – Lopez Island History Museum
Saturday, September 27, 1:00-3:00PM, Lopez Museum, 28 Washburn Pl Once known as the Fruit Basket of Washington, the San Juan Islands and Lopez have a long histo
lopezmuseum.org
Some of the apples that will be at tomorrow's tasting with the Lopez Island History Museum:
Belmont
Esopus Spitzenburg
Fameuse
Gloria Mundi
Glowing Coal
Golden Ball
Gravenstein (including Olga Red Gravenstein)
King (of Tompkins County)
Greensweet
Northern Spy
Twenty Ounce
Wolf River
Third Annual Heritage Apple Day & Community Press – Lopez Island History Museum
Saturday, September 27, 1:00-3:00PM, Lopez Museum, 28 Washburn Pl Once known as the Fruit Basket of Washington, the San Juan Islands and Lopez have a long histo
lopezmuseum.org
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Sep 4
Can rediscovering heritage apples and sharing unique local seedlings help change apple culture in a way that values island orchards?
Lost varieties, new opportunities | Orcas Island’s path back to apple glory | Islands' Sounder
by Darrell Kirk
www.islandssounder.com
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 19
And so to meet the needs of native pollinators, like this bee, we are also propagating native wildflower seeds to replant where weeds are removed.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 19
In disturbed landscapes, such as Cattle Point, during late summer weeds such as thistles and Jacobaea vulgaris (tansy ragwort) may be some of the only pollen and nectar sources available to bees, flies, and wasps.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 19
We have been working with the San Juan Islands Youth Conservation Corps to address noxious weeds in the National Monument.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 19
Western leafcutter bee (Megachile perihirta) taking off from a Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle) inflorescence near Cattle Point (San Juan Islands National Monument).
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 17
Do you need more ways to enjoy this years abundant crop of t’áqa7? We have added recipes to the Food Security section of our website.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 17
We're raising funds through the San Juan Island Community Foundation to fund more apple genetic fingerprinting. To see some of the apples that grow in the islands take a look at this thread by our botanist @arbutocrat.bsky.social

To donate to the project: sjicf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Aug 12
Look for our apple table in the Ag Tent at the San Juan County Fair, and in the catalog of projects in the San Juan Island Community Foundation’s SJI Cares County Fair Program.
Lost and found! The hidden wealth of island orchards | The Journal of the San Juan Islands
Submitted by Russel Barsh, Director of Kwiaht.
www.sanjuanjournal.com
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Jun 26
Our 2nd annual Hummel Lake fishing derby starts at 8am on Saturday June 28th. Weigh-in ends at 4:30 and prizes are awarded at 5pm. Register at the WDFW boat launch on the day of the event. Contact [email protected] with questions.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · Jun 7
Dasysyrphus intrudens, a common and widespread North American hoverfly, enjoying a meal of Fragaria vesca (woodland strawberry) nectar. Syrphid hoverflies like this one should be welcomed in Northwest gardens; their larvae eat aphids voraciously.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · May 29
It's too windy! We're rescheduling the seine for Sunday June 1st.
kwiaht.org Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · May 29
We're seining at Watmough Bight this evening (4pm). Everyone welcome to help pull the net and sort fish.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · May 29
We're seining at Watmough Bight this evening (4pm). Everyone welcome to help pull the net and sort fish.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · May 18
Community science volunteer Anita Holladay documented an extensive Noctiluca scintillans bloom around Indian Island. Noctiluca is a native, non-toxic dinoflagellate; blooms are triggered by warm weather and nutrients in runoff.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · May 14
Today is our first beach seine of the 2025 season with our Lopez Community Salmon Team. We'll be at Watmough Bight (Bay) around 4pm and everyone is welcome to help. Yesterday our community team at Cowlitz Bay counted over 2,000 juvenile Chum and Pink salmon and lavaged 5 juvenile Chinook.
Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · May 11
Our juvenile salmon research season starts this coming week. The Lopez Community Salmon Team will be beach seining at Watmough Bight on Wednesday (May 14th) starting around 4pm. Everyone is welcome to help pull the net and see what the fish are up to
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