Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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Medicinal Harvest

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Humans prefer to make rosehip tea or pulverize the rosehips into a powder and take them as capsules.

We love that the chimpanzees take them in their natural state.

In addition to the wild flowers, I randomly (and quite late in the season), planted sunflower seeds and some marigold starts to accompany a few tomato plants. I think Missy might be onto the fact that there are tomatoes in this garden. Hopefully we can harvest a few before the weather turns cold!

Can you believe it’s almost October?! Lots of good things happen in October, starting with HOOT! (the online auction opens in just a few days and the in-person event is Friday!), and ending with the most important day of the year: Jamieween.

Happy harvesting – whatever that means to you!

 

Terry’s Tendency Towards Tiny Things

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Terry is a big chimpanzee who pays particular attention to tiny things.

His fascination with flowers has less to do with the flowers themselves and more to do with any tiny insect that he can detect and examine.

Chad wrote a blog post a while back with a poem he penned, and photos to go along, entitled Teeny Tiny Terry.

That poem caught the attention of Mary Lee Jensvold who sent it along to her daughter Hannah who made a very special illustrated and hand bound for an online auction.

I can’t say that we have any hand-bound books in our upcoming HOOT! online auction, but we do have some really great items, including our first ever CSNW yearbook that caregivers Jenna and Ellen have been putting together just for the event!

The online auction is open to anyone and runs October 1st – October 6th.

We also have some really amazing and fun items for the in-person event. Time is running out to get tickets, so if you are anywhere near Seattle, reserve your space now!

If you are unable to attend the in-person event, be sure to RSVP to watch the livestream of the HOOT! program.