On August 20 we introduced Regenerate Vashon to the Vashon-Maury Community Council: what bioregionalism means at island scale, where our initiating team actually stands, the mapping workshop ahead, and what a partnership could look like.
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On July 30, the South Willamette Valley Landscape submitted a letter of inquiry to The Rising Foundation seeking $20,000 to launch a one-year planning initiative connecting education, community organizations, and employers across the region into a shared regenerative learning ecosystem.
On July 17, Regenerate Whatcom hosted the first bioregional mapping workshop by any Regenerate Cascadia landscape group, bringing two dozen residents of the Nooksack watershed together at Rome Grange. On Friday August 28, the group gathers at Inspiration Farm to harvest what those maps surfaced.
More than a hundred canoes are moving down the Salish Sea for the 2026 Paddle to Nisqually Medicine Creek Potlatch. This week they were hosted at Suquamish and at Puyallup, and the leg between them ran the length of Vashon and Maury.
At its July 25 meeting, Regenerate Vashon set a date for the island’s bioregional mapping workshop, heard a full debrief of Whatcom’s, and started mapping how a 501(c)(3) and the Vashon-Maury Community Council can do things together that neither can do alone.
June 26th Regenerate Whatcom/Whatcom Permaculture met in Jeanette’s food and medicine forest in a suburban neighborhood! Driving to her home one drives through manicured lawns and neat bushes and trees. […]
Saturday, September 12, 2026 10:00 AM to Friday, October 9, 2026 5:00 PM https://www.rurallivelihoods.org/upcoming-events/fall-2026-eco-municipalism-internship The fellowship consists of three parts and two tracks. First off, everyone will engage in “bread labor” – […]
The BioFi Project’s new essay “Becoming Inhabitants,” by Felix de Rosen, on the return of the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress after seventeen years, and why it matters. A recommended read.
David McCloskey, who named Cascadia as a bioregion and spent four decades mapping it, passed away on July 3, 2026. A tribute to the mapmaker who taught this region to see itself.
