Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Markets & farms on Jul 27th, 2009
This week has been cherry madness in our house. We ended up canning 16 half pints of cherry jam, several pints of cherry dessert sauce, drying some, and still yet making two half gallons of cherry sherry and one half gallon of cherry vinegar. As Matt mentioned in his previous post, cherries are my favorite [...]
Posted in Markets & farms on Jul 20th, 2009
We had a great cherry orchard adventure this weekend at Hentze Family Farm. This fruit is my co-author’s favorite and they rate in my top 3. The farm hosted a festival on Saturday, but we went a day later.
We proceeded directly to the retail shop thinking we’d just pick up a few varieties and [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Fruits, Grains & legumes, Markets & farms on Mar 27th, 2009
After purchasing twelve blueberry plants this week, I had blueberries on my mind. Luckily, we still have lots in the freezer from last summer. This recipe is a healthy breakfast treat, a great alternative to our standard toast with butter and jam. It has almost no sugar in it, just a little brown sugar for [...]
Posted in Garden, Markets & farms on Mar 11th, 2009
All eleven fruit trees arrived within a couple days late last week, so we have been digging a lot since last weekend. So far, we have seven of them planted - with two pears and two cherries left to plant. The Danube cherry and Mirabelle plum were purchased from Raintree and the rest were purchased [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Markets & farms, Soups on Mar 6th, 2009
Matt has been feeling under the weather most of the week and chicken soup was the perfect antidote. The broth tastes much like chicken tortilla soup. It has a little kick from the dried chile and cumin, which I think is better for sinuses and dulled tastebuds than plain chicken soup.
The soup was also a [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Markets & farms, Salads on Mar 2nd, 2009
I am still reeling from an amazing weekend and will hopefully be posting a recap of Organicology and our visit to Beast in a future post. For now, I will share a great recipe, again out of the Heirloom Beans cookbook. The recipe recommends Wren’s Egg beans, but I used Ayers Creek Farm borlotto lamon [...]
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Markets & farms, Portland, Soups, Vegetables - cool weather on Jan 11th, 2009
We made our first winter squash soup of the year with the Sibley Squash that I picked up at the Hillsdale Farmer’s Market this morning . Our main purpose of going to the Hillsdale Farmer’s Market was to procure some Ayers Creek Farm heirloom beans but I couldn’t resist when I saw this beautiful squash [...]
Posted in Bandon, Dark Days Challenge, Markets & farms on Jan 2nd, 2009
The holidays are over, but I still wanted some local cranberries. Every time I am in the produce section at the grocery store, I look at the box in hopes to see Oregon cranberries. Instead I walk away disgusted that a grocery store in Eugene buys cranberries from Wisconsin. What the heck?
We did manage to [...]
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Markets & farms on Jan 1st, 2009
Beans and grains have become a bit of an obsession around here. We are headed to the Hillsdale Farmer’s Market next weekend in search of some beans. A helpful reader turned me on to Ayers Creek Farm (thank you!), owned by Anthony and Carol Boutard. I have exchanged a few emails with Anthony and read [...]
Posted in Markets & farms on Dec 29th, 2008
I wanted to follow-up my last post, Pot Beans, with some more information on local beans and grains. I mentioned the Southern Willamette Valley Bean & Grain Project in that post, but thought such an exciting project deserves more than a mere mention.
I learned about the Southern Willamette Valley Bean & Grain Project through my [...]
