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Quimper Grange #720
1219 Corona St
Port Townsend WA 98368
360-531-0326
​quimpergrange.org
Connect ~ Learn ~ Benefit
Grange motto: "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity."
August 2025
Special Events
​Aug 3 - Open House & Plant Sale & Ice cream
Sept 13 - Farm Tour
Oct 11 - Keltoi concert
Regular Grange Events
check the Calendar tab for updates
1st Tuesdays 5pm - Ukuleles Unite
2nd Tuesdays 6:30pm - Food for Thought
Wednesdays (all but first) 7pm - Balkan Dancing
Garden Notes​
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Open House & Ice Cream Social!
Sun, Aug 3, 1-4 pm
Come join the festivities at the Quimper Grange’s Annual Open House. Free ice cream, live music, plant sale, and tour the Food Bank Garden complete with its new wheelchair accessible garden beds courtesy of PT Food CoOp’s Farmer’s Fund!
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Plants include fall kale & lettuce, native dogwood, perennial flowers, and many more! Proceeds from plant sales will go toward this garden's summer water bill.
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All are welcome; ADA accessible.
Ukuleles Unite!
Happy Hour:
Open Mic & Singalong
First Tuesday
Happy Hour is open to the public on the first Tuesday of the month starting at 5:00 pm. Enjoy listening and singing along with us. The relaxed atmosphere encourages beginners to advanced groups and individuals to perform. Bring your musical instruments, even a kazoo and play along with us. We do suggest a small donation to help pay the rent.
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Guidelines for Open Mic Happy Hour: Sign up upon arrival if you wish to perform. Solo performers are allowed one song and one singalong song. Groups can perform up to three songs, with one designated as a singalong. Bring singalong music for projection. Kindly maintain quiet and respectful behavior while performers are on stage.
For more info visit: ukulelesunite.com, or George Yount at 360-477-5788 • gyount@olypen.com.
NATURE ALWAYS WINS:
Gardening Strategies to Even the Odds
Tues, Aug 12, 2025, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
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Julia Cordz, a certified professional horticulturist and Master Gardener volunteer, will share ideas for growing ornamentals in harmony with our hooved and furry neighbors. There’s no such thing as a completely animal resistant garden, but there are strategies that can minimize how much of your landscape gets devoured. Bring your animal-garden “horror stories” to this August presentation. We’ll learn and share ideas on how to remove your yard from the deer’s ‘top 10 must see’.
Food For Thought, a free series offered by the Quimper Grange #720, examines ‘’all things food & growing” in our area. For 100+ years, this Grange has supported the Jefferson County community through public programming, concerts, dance, rental space, and a 7,000 ft² all-volunteer garden which donates produce to help food insecurity around our county.
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Doors open at 6:15. All are welcome - the Grange has ADA access.
Balkan Dancing
Every Wednesday (except the first)
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Evenings start with mellow dances & progress to intermediate. Fast paced & fun! No partner needed.
Richard & Susi Watson host. 7:00 pm • donation
Line Dance Classes are on Summer Vacation! Classes will resume Sun, Sept 14th.
​For more info: 360-302-0188
There was a great turnout for the July Musical Items Sale!
Garden Notes
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August 2025
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Busy times mean brief news. Bush beans started to produce. And oh, Mary Beth's tomatoes are spectacular.
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Got flowers? We will arrange them for you to deliver to the Food Bank. Small acts of kindness feed hearts as well as fresh food feeds the stomach.
One interesting exercise was to select the varieties of cover crop that we'll be planting in some beds to give the soil (and us) rest and nourishment. It's best to decide what you're going to plant in the spring to determine the type of cover crop to sow this fall. For much better information, refer to WSU's "Methods for Successful Cover Crop Management in Your Home Garden".
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Contact Barbara to volunteer at the Grange garden: barbaratusting97@gmail.com, or
Contact FoodBankGrowers@gmail.com for a food bank garden near you.
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