PORT ANGELES — “Loco over local,” say posters publicizing North Olympic Land Trust’s 11th annual StreamFest on Sunday, Aug. 29.
“We’re really not advising people to go crazy, but the slogan is in the spirit of StreamFest SEmD an event designed for fun as well as inspiration and information,” said Greg Good, land trust executive director.
The free event will take place from noon to 6 p.m. at the Ennis Arbor Farm. The festival’s entry is located down a tree-lined trail lot opposite Peninsula Golf Club, 824 E. Lindberg Road in Port Angeles.
Proceeds from food and drink sales and a silent auction will raise funds for the land trust.
Tickets for the StreamFest smorgasbord, which cost $15, are on sale now, with 500 available.
Most of the food was grown locally, and all will be prepared by area chefs.
Meatballs, steamed clams, barbecued oysters, sweet and sour vegetables and scones will be new additions to the salmon, corn-on-the-cob, fresh vegetables, bread and berries known from years past.
StreamFest also will offer a market for buying fresh produce, as well as chef demonstrations.
Mystery Bay Seafood Catering’s owner, Leonard Johnson, will share secrets for enjoying food from local waters, including how to open oysters.
Participants can dress up as vegetables, fruits and animals for StreamFest’s third annual Procession of Species costume parade at 4 p.m.
Meagan Uecker and Mattias Jarvegren will host a booth for making costumes from recycled materials.
Local organizations, agencies and businesses will offer exhibits and activities. Automobile agencies will display their most environmentally harmonious vehicles currently available.
Other activities are:
• Retired teacher Toni Wade will help visitors to the “Pond Critters Open House,” open from noon to 4 p.m., to get acquainted with animals living in and near ponds that help filter storm water from nearby development before it reaches Ennis Creek.
• Dungeness River Audubon Center Director Bob Boekelheide will lead a bird-watching walk at 1 p.m.
• At 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., fisheries biologist Coleman Byrnes will provide background about fish habitat needs while escorting participants to a place on Ennis Creek, where Arthur D. Feiro Marine Life Center Coordinator Bob Campbell and other stream specialists will provide information about the creek.
• Olympic Park Institute educator K.C. Nattinger will lead walks at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. that focus on local geology.
• Other 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. walks will feature staff from Merrill & Ring forestry and land management talking about local trees, and Jim and Robbie Mantooth, who own Ennis Creek Farm, telling about permanently protecting qualities of their property through the land trust.
• At 4 p.m., Jim Mantooth will help children dig potatoes to take home.
• In Ennis Arbor Farm’s band shell, local musician members of the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will donate a performance and singalong from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• At other times between noon and 4 p.m., DJ’s Howard and Leslie Fisher, known as Double Exposure SEmD The Celebration Specialists — will host recorded music and trivia games emphasizing topics related to the environment.
Free shuttles
Shuttles, provided by All Points Charters and Tours and 7 Cedars Casino, will provide free transportation between the Eagles parking lot, at the corner of U.S. Highway 101 and Penn Street, and Ennis Arbor Farm, about a mile away.
The golf club will provide a golf cart so land-trust volunteers can provide rides for those not feeling up to walking the approximately block-long trail.
People with special needs also can be dropped off and picked up by shuttles or their own transportation just outside a gate by the Mantooths’ driveway, at the east end of Lindberg Road.
Julie Grattan, a volunteer leader who has helped plan StreamFest’s food and drink serices, said farmers, restaurants and other professionals who grow, harvest and preserve local foods are donating a great variety of foods and drinks.
Desserts and drinks will be available for purchase between noon and 5 p.m.
Smorgasbord tickets can be purchased at Port Book and News and Feiro Marine Life Center, in Port Angeles; Pacific Mist Books, Sequim; Sunny Farms Farm Store, between the two cities; or at the land trust website www.nolt.org, or office, 104 N. Laurel St.
Any remaining tickets will be available for purchase during StreamFest.
Small “kids plate” tickets also can be purchased there for children 10 and younger at $7 each.
Products and services for the StreamFest silent auction are listed on the land trust’s website as donations from local businesses and individuals come in.
For more information, see the land trust’s website or phone 360-417-1815.