Hungry Hill Farm, based in Scio, is a new vendor at the Albany Farmers Market! They’ll be providing produce and sheep wool fiber (yarn and spinning batts) each week this season. Here are a few items you can expect to see this week: Lettuce Rhubarb Spinach Mint Radishes Green onions Chives Thyme Sheep wool...
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It may not have been clear in my previous posts, or on other stories around the web about the City of Corvallis ordering the Bald Hill Farm store to close, but they are still open! They’re open daily, 10am to 6pm. Right now they are taking reservations for holiday prime rib, lamb leg, or...
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A seed grower from the Willamette Valley, along with other plaintiffs, has successfully sued the USDA and APHIS for failure to require an environmental impact statement prior to deregulation of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beet plants. Deregulation opened the door for transgenic sugar beet production in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, one of the...
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In my previous post about the Bald Hill store closure, I mentioned that there is a 299-page staff report on the violation and the farm’s appeal. The site that hosted that document was not easy to navigate, so I turned the entire document into a PDF. It can be accessed here on my site...
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Based on different interpretations of a land development code, the city of Corvallis has ordered the Bald Hill Farm store to close. The farm recently sent out this e-mail, which Amanda gave me permission to post: Dear Friends, We have some unfortunate news about the future of our little farm store. The City of...
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Wow, fall really arrived in a blink. It’s time to head out to the farms and orchards for pumpkins and some fresh cider! A couple of websites I turn to when I’m looking for farms to visit are Local Harvest and Pick Your Own. On the Local Harvest site, you can search by state...
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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 say, I really thought there would be more. It seems like...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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