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wildlifeacoustics.comEcho Meter Touch 2 Active Bat DetectorTurn your smartphone or tablet into an active bat detector, and conduct citizen science from the palm of your hand.

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Want to listen to bats? @wildlifeacoustics.com is running a bat week sale (& a bat year sale) on their Echo Meter Touch 2, which works as an ultrasonic microphone for smart phones (connecting via USB-C charging port). With their free app it lets you listen to bats and identify the species you hear.

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These are the bat detectors we use for bat listening events at Hummel, Mountain, and Eagle Lakes, and for bat visits to count how many individual bats are using roosts.

We had a delightful book party with the Lopez Library last night. Here are some of the dishes we shared (photos by Lopez librarian Darren Hoerner). Qáyexw (Malus fusca) curd (which was also available mixed with cream and piped into cream puffs)

And fresh kw’ólexw (chum salmon) caviar from local Reef-net caught fish! (This recipe is also on our website)

Not pictured are moqem ti (Labrador tea) and the puffs stuffed with qáyexw and t’áqa7 cream fillings.

Ts’éxts’ex (stinging nettle) lemon cupcakes, made from ts’éxts’ex leaves that were steamed and frozen in the spring (the recipe is available in the Food Security section of our website).

Fresh t’áqa7 (salal) jam. Made with raw t’áqa7 that were frozen in the summer and thickened with chia seed. It was also available as a surprisingly pink t’áqa7 cheesecake cream filling in creampuffs. (The fresh t’áqa7 jam recipe is also on our website).

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We're celebrating qáyexw (Malus fusca) season at our book launch tomorrow. Come talk to us about Indigenous plants and devour some qáyexw flavored treats. Lopez Library from 5:30-7pm.

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We're celebrating qáyexw (Malus fusca) season at our book launch tomorrow. Come talk to us about Indigenous plants and devour some qáyexw flavored treats. Lopez Library from 5:30-7pm.

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adamapples.blogspot.comYellow BellflowerThis shapely apple dates from colonial New Jersey.

They have a "lush texture" in pies! No lecture anticipated.

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We have the first ripe Yellow Bellflower apples from LeMaister Farm at the farm stand. These long yellow apples have a delicious sweet-tart flavor (somewhat similar to Gravenstein) when eaten fresh and a lush lecture when baked into pies (and other apple confections).

You can also try a seedling cooking apple we call Suntide. It keeps a nice firm texture when cooked, and makes great chunky apple preserves.

There are also Kings, and a few Wealthys available (and a new batch of apple Zines). Pay what you wish!

They keep well, but have delicate skins that are easy to bruise. We will stock more as they ripen.

theorcasonian.comNative pollinator presentation by Russel Barsh coming to Orcas Library||| FROM JENNIFER DEGROOT for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| More than 200 wild bees and flies are native to the San Juan Islands, but many are threatened by pesticides, loss of nesting habitat, competit...

Come to the Orcas Public Library on Saturday, October 24th at 1pm for a native pollinator presentation by Russel Barsh. Russel will be available following the presentation to answer questions you may have about identifying and protecting native pollinators. This event is free and open to all.

Our next apple tasting and community press is with the Orcas Museum on October 17

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We brought some Qáyexw (Malus fusca) for folks to try too--they could chose between hard ripe (like in this photo from a few weeks ago) or soft ripe. Both are very tart (high in citric acid) but I think there is more complexity in the soft ripe (and they are fun to suck out of the tough skins!)

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heritagefruitproject.orgSan Juan Islands Pomona - Pomona (descriptions)Heritage Apples documented as planted in the San Juans before 1915: varieties in bold have been located still growing on at least one island. Arkansas Black Autumn Strawberry Baldwin Belmont Ben Davis...

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You can find more of the apples that grow in the island at @kwiaht.org's San Juan Islands Pomona. This tasting only featured the mid season varieties that are ripe now, there are many, many more.

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islandsweekly.comApples, art and community connections - Islands' WeeklyBy Linda Ann Vorobik

Want to see some of the apples?

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Today is our fourth annual heritage apple day with the Lopez History Museum and Lopez Island Family Resource Center gleaning program. Apple tasting and community pressing from 1-4pm. Bring a mug and a jug and apples if you have them!

Island connections and an opportunity to make, share, and buy Lopez Island apple art

This Saturday, October 10th we have events on both Lopez and Orcas. On Orcas we're teaching a workshop on testing drinking water for arsenic. It's at the Library from 1-3. It's free to attend and testing kits are provided.

On Lopez @arbutocrat.bsky.social will be identifying mystery apples at Fruit City's Apple Fest from 1-3pm (the fest goes to 4) & then teaching a canning refresher for the Lopez Library with applesauce at Taproot Community Kitchen from 4-6pm (apples and jars provided--take home some sauce!).

We share our Tribal colleagues' concern; we have been part of this long term bottom-up zooplankton study since it started and would like to continue collecting and sharing this critical data on the salmon (and Orca) food web.

Northwest Treaty Tribes@nwtreatytribes.org

The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe has serious concerns about the loss of funding for the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project, which supports long-term valuable data sets that the tribe has been building for a decade. nwtreatytribes.org/tribe-feelin...

The specific program that lost funding is the Puget Sound Zooplankton Monitoring Program, which has been administered by (and funded by the State legislature through) the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Botanical illustrator Linda Ann Vorobik is curating a pop up art show featuring Lopez Island apples, and teaching a watercolor class using Lopez apples, on the weekend of October 24th and 25th.

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...Consider the fun of attending the Heritage Apple Day and Community Press for inspiration! (Sunday, October 11th at the Lopez Island History Museum;...

...For those interested in the workshop: the limit is 12 participants, I am good with beginning and accomplished artists, and I will bring in a selection of Lopez apples from @arbutocrat.bsky.social as possible subjects."

Botanical illustrator Linda Ann Vorobik is curating a pop up art show featuring Lopez Island apples, and teaching a watercolor class using Lopez apples, on the weekend of October 24th and 25th.

...I won’t take a commission but you will be juried in, you must sign a liability waver, share cleanup, and be respectful and supportive of the workshop in the south room. I will advertise the show in as many venues as possible...

...Time of show is 10 am through 2 pm Saturday and Sunday, October 24 & 25. If enough are interested, we could do a small opening at 5 pm on Saturday. I am especially interested in artists with pieces inspired by our Lopez apples and other colors of autumn. ...

Botanical illustrator Linda Ann Vorobik is curating a pop up art show featuring Lopez Island apples, and teaching a watercolor class using Lopez apples, on the weekend of October 24th and 25th.

From Linda: "Many of you know I have been offering botanical art workshops at the Lopez Island Grange, such as on October 24th and 25th. For these workshops I use the south room, but I would like to share the north room with artists ....

...who might like to show and sell their art with some of their images and other work fitting the theme of 'Fruits and Form Featuring (but not limited to) Lopez Apples and Autumn Colors'. Cost is $20 per day for showing and selling your work; ...

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I am looking for help getting more old Fallawater apple tree samples submitted for genetic fingerprinting. Do you have or have access to old Fallawater trees? The samples are a few green leaves dried in silica and sent in to Washington State University through the MyFruitTree project

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I finally sent my Fallawater tree samples to the MyFruitTree project lab at Washington State University, and now we have a mystery that you might be able to help us solve. My samples matched a tree labeled Fallawater at Tower Hill, but not the one at USDA Geneva. So we are looking for more samples

centraloregondaily.comThese 130-year-old Central Oregon pioneer apple trees are still bearing fruitApple trees planted by Central Oregon's first homesteaders 130 years ago are still producing fruit, and some varieties are so rare that DNA tests came back as unique.

The Heritage Apple Corps have found trees in central Oregon that are genetic matches for some of the rare "lost" apple varieties we find in the islands. With more sampling, both here and there, we hope to be able to properly identify these varieties and bring them back into production.

We have a map of historic apple trees in Friday Harbor! You can download if from the Food Security page of our website or come to our apple tasting Sunday with the San Juan Island Grange and get yourself a hard copy. Funded by the Town of Friday Harbor Lodging Tax.

There are quite a few seedling trees to visit as well. And two of the biggest native qáyexwilch (Malus fusca) we've ever seen (back behind the old Convalescent Center/soon to be new Library)

Come taste historic apple varieties from Friday Harbor (and the rest of the islands) in Friday Harbor tomorrow. We'll be at the Grange from 3-5 with hard copies of the apple map.

Back at Spring Street International School there are three big Glowing Coal trees right out front. A very unusual early ripening variety, the large fruit are very juicy, with a honey flavor.

If you head out to Evergreen Park (a small square of lawn off of Spruce Street), you'll find a Baldwin growing from the neighbor's yard out over the park. Baldwin is a great keeper, ripening late and staying pretty (and tasty) all winter.

Peeking over the fence at the Land Bank's parking lot is a Red Gravenstein, based on when it would have been planted it was very likely grafted from the blood red sport discovered in Olga on Orcas Island around 1905. And there's another of the same with the King behind the Museum of Art.

Right along the road across Argyle Avenue from the Land Bank is a big beautiful Belmont tree. This variety is rare, perhaps because it is too delicate to ship or store, but is a delightful tart dessert apple.

You'll find King of Tompkins County, for example, behind the Masonic Hall, alongside the Key Bank parking lot, behind Spring Street International School, and behind the San Juan Islands Museum of Art

There are two yellow Gravensteins in the county annex across from the court house, and one in the front yard of the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank's office.

farmtourssanjuans.comFarm Tours | Orcas Island

Orcas Island Farm Tours are this weekend! The stop at Lum Farm includes historic orchards. The trees along the driveway are Baldwins, Rhode Island Greening, and one of the oldest quince trees in the islands. You may also see Gravenstein, Belmont, Westfield-Seek-no-Further, and Fallawater.

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Scenes from an apple tasting (🧵)

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The previous Saturday we (@Kwiaht) held an apple tasting with the Orcas Museums and folks had 60 different apple varieties to try. I'm going to post some of them below.

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San Juan County News Flash

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All San Juan County Beaches Closed to Recreational Shellfish Harvesting https://www.sanjuancountywa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=2250