Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Garden on Sep 25th, 2011
Shown is today’s tomato harvest from our garden, one day after the equinox and minutes before our first big rain in a long time. Considering how summer took so long to arrive here and how we’ve had less-than-stellar results growing heirlooms in past years - we are a bit surprised and thrilled at the results. [...]
Posted in Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Markets & farms, Ramblings, Smoking/Dehydrating on Oct 19th, 2010
We became proud owners of a Big Chief electric smoker this summer, a find we made passing by a yard sale in our neighborhood. Smoking food wasn’t on my radar, but the unit was too eye-catching and the price was too right to pass it up. 15 bucks and it was ours.
It found a home [...]
Posted in Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Markets & farms, Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2010
Although we’ve had lousy weather for a good month here - a true damper on the area’s strawberries crops - there are still some good ones to be found.
Out of all the food preserving Amy has accomplished the past couple of years, my personal favorite - and there’ve been many great ones - is a [...]
