Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Garden, Winter garden on Sep 13th, 2009
“I’m DONE with pickles.”
These were my co-author’s first words after she spent two near-full days of a splendid weekend cleaning, cutting, boiling, mixing, sealing, etc – in other words, canning - what is intended to be a two-year supply of staples here at the ranch.
A few days ago Amy made a special run to [...]
Posted in Appetizer - dips, Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Garden, Recipes, Specialty stores, Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2009
Buying a plant start of an unknown vegetable variety can be risky business. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is a story about a winner.
Coming off of a successful tomatillo experience in 2008, we decided to expand our horizons this year. A few months ago we drove down to Territorial Seed Company in Cottage [...]
We did a lot of business at Lane Forest Products this spring. We made about a dozen trips to dump off sod strippings and to pick up soil amendments and mulch for our lawn-to-crop conversion in the front 40. Part of Lane’s check-out system is a drive-by display of their bulk products. It’s a totally [...]
I’m back from a month’s hiatus from blog posting and lots to report. Thank goodness Matt posted occasionally so you weren’t totally in the dark.
Getting chickens was perhaps one of the best decisions we have made - we get so much enjoyment out of watching them and petting them, not to mention eating their eggs. [...]
The rewards of our urban farming endeavors are showing up now in miniature form. A couple of weeks ago, we found the first egg laid by our most modest hen Buffy. It was tiny. A few days later, she went teeny tiny – maybe half the size of the first.
These eggs are in good company, as some of our [...]
Posted in Garden on Apr 4th, 2009
Our dozen blueberry plants are in the ground, finally. We planted them on the west side of the house, along the hedge. We managed to document most of the process to share with you, in case there are others out there considering blueberries. We are currently on a little weekend jaunt in Bend, OR and [...]
Posted in Garden on Mar 31st, 2009
I have been feeling guilty for not posting more updates recently, but our kitchen has been kind of a boring place. We have been cooking, but mostly stuff that we’ve already shared with you. Most of our time and effort has gone into the garden.
This past weekend, we started prepping the blueberry bed. The native [...]
Posted in Garden on Mar 25th, 2009
We have watched a lot of NCAA basketball the last week, but we have also spent a lot of time in the yard. After planting the 11 fruit trees, we decided to tear up more grass and plant about a dozen blueberries. When he wasn’t watching basketball last weekend, Matt was shoveling away sod to [...]
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 [...]
I spent the latter part of last week in Portland for Organicology and then stayed through the weekend to spend time with friends. Many of the sessions at Organicology were appropriately focused on farmers, but I took away tons of valuable information even as a non-farmer. There was a particular focus on seeds, which I [...]
