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.
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.
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.
Remembering Geoff McNeely, a founding Whidbey Island landscape steward and beloved friend of this movement, with an invitation to his celebration of life on Whidbey, Saturday, July 18.
On Friday, July 17, Regenerate Whatcom hosts the first bioregional mapping workshop among our landscape groups, a full day at Rome Grange tracing the waters, soils, species, and stories of home.
A recognition of presence for Vashon and Maury Island, written for the summer solstice: not a land acknowledgment but a living practice of relationship with the Swift Water People and the island that holds us.
