Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Celebrate Earth Day with Waste Loop and the Leavenworth community!

Join Waste Loop, Sustainable NCW, and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts for a screening of the heart warming documentary Landfill Harmonic. The film follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage pieces found in the landfill where their community is settled.

Preserving food before it spoils will not only reduce waste, it will also allow you to enjoy nutrient rich in-season produce well past harvest season, a win, win! The final class in this five part series will dive into the world of canning meats and soups.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Preserving food before it spoils will not only reduce waste, it will also allow you to enjoy nutrient rich in-season produce well past harvest season, a win, win! The fourth class in this five part series will dive into the world of jams, jellies, and pie fillings.

Preserving food before it spoils will not only reduce waste, it will also allow you to enjoy nutrient rich in-season produce well past harvest season, a win, win! The third class in this five part series will dive into the world of fermentation and pickling.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Preserving food before it spoils will not only reduce waste, it will also allow you to enjoy nutrient rich in-season produce well past harvest season, a win, win! The second class in this five part series will dive into the world of  tomatoes - canning and making salsas.

Preserving food before it spoils will not only reduce waste, it will also allow you to enjoy nutrient rich in-season produce well past harvest season, a win, win! The first class in this five part series will dive into the world of pressure canning.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Does your favorite pair of wool socks have a hole on the sole? Or maybe your well loved jeans could use some TLC. Visible mending is a fun and beautiful way to repair and enhance clothing. 

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Celebrate the winter holidays with Waste Loop, Mary Charlee Designs, and Small Change Creative Reuse with a night of upcycled crafting. We will be repurposing old holiday cards, gift bags and tissue paper into ornaments and holiday decorations, making mini birdhouse ornaments from salvaged lumber, and collaging together all sorts of fun paper scraps into holiday cards - choose to work on one project or all of them!

Introduction to usage and safe handling of hand power tools. What is the difference between a drill and a driver, and more!! The workshop is held in partnership with NCW Woodshop.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Seasonal Abundance: a low waste cooking series is a hands-on workshop bringing together community members to share in the seasonal bounty of NCW. Participants will learn low waste cooking techniques from local chefs while preparing several recipes using a featured produce item and other regionally bountiful ingredients. In November the featured ingredient will be potato!

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Introduction to usage and safe handling of hand power tools. What is the difference between a drill and a driver, and more!! The workshop is held in partnership with NCW Woodshop.

Seasonal Abundance: a low waste cooking series is a hands-on workshop bringing together community members to share in the seasonal bounty of NCW. Participants will learn low waste cooking techniques from local chefs while preparing several recipes using a featured produce item and other regionally bountiful ingredients. In October the featured ingredient will be pumpkin and other winter squash varieties!

Introduction to usage and safe handling of hand power tools. What is the difference between a drill and a driver, and more!! The workshop is held in partnership with NCW Woodshop.

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.

Seasonal Abundance: a low waste cooking series is a hands-on workshop bringing together community members to share in the seasonal bounty of NCW. Participants will learn low waste cooking techniques from local chefs while preparing several recipes using a featured produce item and other regionally bountiful ingredients. In September the featured ingredients will be tomato, pepper, and corn!

Repair Cafes are a community space which brings together skilled volunteer fixers and items that need repair. These events foster community, reduce waste, and build up the circular economy in NCW.