Join Sunnyside Nursery this year at Sorticulture, at our retail booth & at one of our talks!
Sorticulture is a three-day outdoor festival that celebrates the best parts of Pacific Northwest outdoor living. Hosted in the seaside city of Everett, WA, Sorticulture is the premier festival for garden art, local plants and flowers and handmade outdoor products. There is FREE admission, a great lineup of artists & vendors (including US!), excellent bars and restaurants as well as a few snack vendors AND classes by us & THE Ciscoe Morris, as well as some great music acts lined up on the Sunnyside Nursery Garden Stage this year!
In 2021, Sorticulture was moved to Downtown Everett to meet the state's COVID guidelines for outdoor events. At the time, the intention was to move the festival back to Legion Park in 2022. However, vendors and festival goers alike preferred the new downtown location; therefore, we will continue the event downtown on Colby Avenue in 2023.
The downtown location offers the following benefits:
Guests do not need to take a shuttle to get to the event and parking is ample and free on the weekends
Better accessibility for folks with limited mobility
Simple, drive-up package pickup for guests and easier load-in for vendors
Walking distance to local attractions, shopping, dining, museums and hotels
Much-needed economic support for small brick and mortar businesses and local restaurants
I thought it might be fun to kick off the new year in style with some gardening resolutions, a practice that may both motivate us and help to maximize our gardening potential. It goes without saying that there are many ways any of us can improve in our lives, community, relationships and even workplace. Setting goals is always useful (year around for that matter), but it seems like at the New Year holiday, resolutions large and small take center stage. I will skip the topics of…