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."
July 2026
Regular Grange Events
check Calendar for updates
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Sundays, 1 pm & Mondays, 6 pm - Line Dance Classes
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1st Tuesdays, 5 pm - Ukuleles Unite
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Wednesdays, July 8, 15, 22, 29, 6:30 - 8:30 pm - Dance Balkan
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Notes from the Garden
Save the Date!
Open House - Sat, August 29 - Festivities tba
Food for Thought Series will return September 15
PT Community Dances will return in September~ dates tba
Last year Food Bank Growers donated over
40,000 pounds of produce to Jefferson County organizations
Read the July issue of the Jefferson County Food Bank Association Newsletter.
Thanks to all our dedicated volunteers and donors for helping bring food security to our neighbors in need.
"Clients have been known to burst into applause when Garden Manager Barbara Tusting delivers fresh produce from the Quimper Grange Garden to the Port Townsend Food Bank."
Welcome to our new partner,
Return to Earth Community Compost
Quimper Grange is hosting a drop-off location for the community near Dundee Hill neighborhood. Register to drop ALL your food scraps in the bin (yes, even meat and bones!)
For information and to register visit: https://www.rtecompost.org/
Line Dance Classes
Beginning Line Dance Class
No Experience Necessary, Drop-ins Welcome
Every Sunday at 1:00 pm
90 minute class
$10 Suggested Donation
Intermediate Line Dance Class
One should have some line dance experience before attending.
Every Monday at 6:00 pm
90 minute class
$10 Suggested Donation
For more info: 360-302-0188
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 and play along with us. We suggest a small donation to help pay the rent.
Guidelines: 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.
For more info visit: ukulelesunite.com or George Yount at 360-477-5788 • gyount@olypen.com
Dance Balkan
Wednesdays
(except the 1st Wednesday of each month)
July 8, 15, 22, 29
6:30 - 8:30 pm
No partner needed
Evenings start with mellow dances & progress to a mix of slow, fast, and intermediate. Dances from the Balkans, with Greek, Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatia, as well as international.
Fast paced & fun!
Hosts Richard & Susi Watson • by donation
Garden Notes
July 2026
Alex and Hunter cut flowers for the Food Bank customers
July kicks into high gear with this recent heat wave. Our first tomatoes are ready to pick, the basil crop is booming, and the flowers outstanding. Salad Mix alone accounts for nearly 50% of our total June weight of over 190 pounds. Our salad mix has included lettuce (of course), mizuna, arugula, orach, scallions, beet greens, carrots, peas, herbs, and edible flowers and is packaged as a beautiful presentation right here in our garden.
As well as the beautiful sugar snap peas, scallions, basil and other herbs we've been harvesting, we have beautiful boquets of flowers supplied to every food bank delivery - some from volunteers' homes, many from our pollinator garden (see photo above). And the raspberries just kicked in full-bore!
Now, even before our peak harvest season kicks in, we are planning ahead about what to plant for Fall harvests, and what we want to harvest throughout the winter months.