Saturday, May 2nd Wine & Cheese Tasting Midway Farms, 6980 NW Hwy 20, Albany, OR 97321 1pm to 6pm “Come spend a relaxing day at Midway Farms sampling fabulous cheeses made by Willamette Valley Cheese paired with decadent wines of Eola Hills Winery. Walk through our gardens & gaze into the sky while listening to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Willamette Valley’
26 Mar
New local mustard company – tasting on Friday!
Mmmmmmm. Mustard! This is the truth: the “bio” line on my Twitter account used to say “I like mustard.” Come to think of it, I don’t really know why I removed that… Mustard! Not just mustard. LOCAL mustard, made with local ingredients like beer from Oregon Trail Brewery, local brown mustard seeds from Wild Garden [...]
12 Mar
Chickens arrive at MWV Local HQ
For those that don’t follow my other blog… behold my first attempt at backyard chickens & the most local of local eggs! (Well, eventually with the eggs.) We got six Barred Rock pullets & they are super cute. They seem to be quite hardy, which is great but isn’t keeping me from being a little [...]
6 Mar
Saturday
Reminder of tomorrow’s events: The OSU Empty Bowls Project (6-8pm) Cracked Pots’ UnGarden Art Show (11am-6pm)
4 Mar
Ask yourself why you do this
In early February there was a blurb in the Seattle Times about a Salem man who called off his attempt to eat only local foods for a year because he realized he was causing more damage to the atmosphere by driving “around the state” to shop. Well… okay. Driving around the state for your food [...]
26 Feb
Living Culture television series
Living Culture is a monthly television series based in Salem that focuses on the food, gardening and culture of the mid-Willamette Valley. I’ve really enjoyed catching up with the segments that they have featured on their video archive page, and look forward to watching in the future!
24 Feb
CSA Page Updates
I’ve started updating the Community Supported Agriculture page with information for 2009. I know there are more farms out there in the Willamette Valley that offer CSA programs. If anyone wants to drop me a line with details, send it to mwvlocal at gmail dot com. Meanwhile, I’ll keep searching online.
15 Aug
Winter gardening? It’s not too late.
According to the winter chart over at Territorial Seed Company (located in Cottage Grove, OR!), there’s still time to get several things into the ground in order to enjoy a winter harvest! What are some things you can plant? • Sow seeds for endive, kohlrabi and spinach now, the cutoff time is mid-August. • By [...]
7 Aug
Recipe of the Week: Sophie’s Zucchini Bread
The Recipe of the Week page is now updated with a delicious zucchini bread recipe!
30 Jul
Challenge updates… we have challenge updates…
Wow, time has a way of just running off on me. If we do this again next year, I’m going to need a co-blogger for sure. Okay, so it’s been a few (coughfourcough) weeks, what’s everyone been up to? Delicious, mouth-watering stuff, that’s what! Read on: In week five, Pat at Cooking from the Market [...]
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