Tasting the Trails
This year, Colorado Springs based artist Eric Steen will have the participants of The Long Walk literally ingesting the landscape. Eric is producing a short run beer – with help from Courtney Ford, a brewer at Snoqualmie Brewery, and Jim Demetre, The Long Walk’s intrepid plant expert – crafted with plants that grow along the Snoqualmie Valley Trail....
Walking with Jim
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted but it’s not for the lack of interesting adventures, quite the opposite (for instance right this very second I am distilling essential oil from bear scat. I’m not kidding.) Many Long Walkers have been busy on projects boosted by our collective experience this summer, Jim Demetre among them....
Floraforum
I recently met with Jim Demetre, one of Seattle’s (few) art critics and the publisher and editor of Artdish, an online journal of Northwest art criticism. He is also a noted horticulturist, landscape designer, naturalist, and former gardener for the City of Seattle. We talked about punk rock, the necessity of the sense of discovery...