Puyallup

Environment-Friendly Rain Gardens Transformed This Puyallup Neighborhood

Environment-Friendly Rain Gardens Transformed This Puyallup Neighborhood

With help from Rain Dog Designs, one Washington community gets greener.

A rain garden stands out with bright yellow from black-eyed Susans, lavender from Russian sage and pink from Autumn Joy sedum.

Elaina Friedman

In Puyallup, Rhubarb Grows on the Dark Side

In Puyallup, Rhubarb Grows on the Dark Side

A Puyallup farmer is growing winter rhubarb indoors, in the dark—and the results are remarkable

Forget the pie—when Tim Richter was a kid, he’d peel the skin off ruby rhubarb stalks, straight from the field, and pour sugar down the scooped center. “That was it,” he says. “That was our Sour Patch [Kids]!” Today, the fourth-generation farmer doesn’t eat nearly as much rhubarb as you might expect, considering his family…

Chelsea Lin

Datebook: The Puyallup Fair

Sure, there’s the rodeo and all manner of sticky fair food, but the fair is serving up an impressive

REASONS TO ‘DO THE PUYALLUP’Sure, there’s the rodeo and all manner of sticky fair food, but the fair is serving up an impressive scoop of classic American music, too. First, catch one of country’s greatest renaissance men, Kenny Rogers (9/13, 7:30 p.m.) who, after six decades in the business, still knows when to hold ’em…

Seattle Mag

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