There’s a new post up over at the new MWV Local site: finding farms and orchards to visit this fall, plus a link to a baked pumpkin pudding recipe. Please head over and check it out!
Archive for the ‘Farms’ Category
28 Sep
Got Milk?
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Flipping through the October, 2009 issue of Bon Appétit magazine, this little item about home milk delivery caught my eye. Curious if there were any dairies which provide home delivery in Oregon, I hit up Google. I found one and I have to [...]
9 Sep
More about Red Hat Melons
Okay, I suspected that Red Hat Melons was where my neighbor was going and bringing back these fantastic, awesome, best-ever melons and sharing with us — and our neighbor confirmed that this is the case. My husband is the melon fan in our house and he has been over the MOON about this. Even I [...]
2 Sep
Bounty of Benton County this weekend
Check out the article in today’s GT about this event.
I just went and looked again at all the participating sites and I realize, I’ve only ever visited four of them. What a great opportunity to visit some new places and help a worthy cause at the same time.
The event runs from noon to 5pm on [...]
1 Sep
Red Hat Melons & Kisler Farm (Corvallis)
I noticed a temporary stand on the corner of Hwy 20 and Garden Ave. (that’s the street by Texaco) — Red Hat Melons. If you like melon, you might want to get out there and check it out before they are gone.
I also wanted to point out Kisler Farms. They are a bit off the [...]
27 Aug
Weekend Events – August 28-30
(I also put this post up at the new URL – I’ll probably duplicate for a while until that site completely fixed up.)
Here are a couple of things going on this weekend…
Of course, the Oregon State Fair starts this weekend in Salem. Mmm… fair food.
August 28-30: 2009 Wah Chang Northwest Art and Air Festival in [...]
20 Aug
2009 Corn Festival at Heavenly Harvest (Corvallis)
The 2009 Corn Festival at Heavenly Harvest is coming THIS WEEKEND — August 21 – 23rd. There will be lots of fun activities for the kids, like duck races, feeding the chickens, face painting, a water balloon launcher and a water balloon war! Forget the kids, where do I get in line?!
There’s also going to [...]
14 Aug
Local Foodies – check this out
I got this comment under my last post and it deserves to be a posting of its own… so, here it is. Thank you Andrea from Rural Families!
Local foodies – please check this out!
The “Bounty of Benton County” is a celebration of what rural Benton County has to offer – while helping to support programs [...]
9 Jul
Tour of Agricultural Gene Bank & Research Farm (Corvallis)
I received this news release today & wanted to pass it along — sounds like an interesting tour.
7-9-09
OSU, USDA invite public to tour Corvallis farm, gene bank July 18
By Tiffany Woods, 541-737-2940, tiffany.woods@oregonstate.edu
Source: Joseph Postman, 541-738-4200, joseph.postman@ars.usda.gov
CORVALLIS, Ore. The public is invited to tour an agricultural gene bank and research farm on the outskirts [...]
15 Jun
Quarter Cow
Well, this will be an adventure… picked up a quarter of a cow today from Bald Hill Farm in Corvallis.
There is a LOT of ground beef here. We hardly ever buy ground beef, so we’ll have to come up with some ways to use that. It’ll make some good pots of chili this winter!
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