2009 Corn Festival at Heavenly Harvest (Corvallis)

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2009 Corn Festival at Heavenly Harvest (Corvallis)

The 2009 Corn Festival at Heavenly Harvest is coming THIS WEEKEND — August 21 – 23rd. There will be lots of fun activities for the kids, like duck races, feeding the chickens, face painting, a water balloon launcher and a water balloon war! Forget the kids, where do I get in line?! There’s also going to be live music and food…  a roasted corn buffet (with seasonings and toppings) and veggie shish kabobs. Should be a blast — see you there. Where: Heavenly Harvest Farm 5757 NE Hwy 20,  five miles North-East of Corvallis When: August 21-23, 2009, 9am – 7pm Cost: Looks like entry is free, some events and the food are ticket based. See the website for details.

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Congratulations Rogue Creamery!

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Rogue Creamery’s Rogue River Blue cheese bested 1,326 other entries at the largest cheese competition in North America to become American Cheese Society’s Best of Show for 2009. Nom.

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Local Foodies – check this out

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I got this comment under my last post and it deserves to be a posting of its own… so, here it is. Thank you Andrea from Rural Families! Local foodies – please check this out! The “Bounty of Benton County” is a celebration of what rural Benton County has to offer – while helping to support programs for rural Benton County Families. Participants can travel to 15 sites to enjoy wine tastings, music, displays by local artists, and sample local foods. There are kids activities too! Sites include John Boy’s Mercantile, Tyee Vineyards, Emerson Vineyards, Sunrise Tree Farms, Beazell Memorial Forest, Benton County Historical Museum, Gateway Gallery, Green Gable Gardens, Spindrift Cellars, Hazelnut Hill, Harris Bridge Vineyards, Lumos Wine Company, Alsea Fish Hatchery, the Wine Vault, and the Alsea Anagama Kiln. These sites all feature something special. Kids activities include scavenger hunts, fish printing, hiking, raptor presentations from Chintimini...

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Sunday benefit for the Linn Benton Food Share

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Sunday benefit for the Linn Benton Food Share

click on the poster to go to the website

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Tour of Agricultural Gene Bank & Research Farm (Corvallis)

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Tour of Agricultural Gene Bank & Research Farm (Corvallis)

I received this news release today & wanted to pass it along — sounds like an interesting tour. 7-9-09 OSU, USDA invite public to tour Corvallis farm, gene bank July 18 By Tiffany Woods, 541-737-2940, tiffany.woods@oregonstate.edu Source: Joseph Postman, 541-738-4200, joseph.postman@ars.usda.gov CORVALLIS, Ore. ­ The public is invited to tour an agricultural gene bank and research farm on the outskirts of Corvallis on July 18. The annual event will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Oregon State University’s Lewis-Brown Horticulture Research Farm and the adjacent U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Clonal Germplasm Repository, which is at 33447 S.E. Peoria Rd. The repository preserves thousands of varieties of crops, including hazelnuts, strawberries, hops, mint, pears and blackberries, so they’ll be available for research and whatever needs might arise in the future. Visitors will be able to sample many of the 600 different blueberry cultivars at the site;...

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Shearing Day

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Shearing Day

I have a hobby that utilizes local resources — I spin wool into yarn. Luckily, Oregon is rich with people who raise sheep and other fiber producing animals. Of course, there’s beautiful, natural wool from all over the place, along with independent dyers who create amazing batts and rovings… so I don’t always buy only locally. It’s too tempting. Other spinners know what I’m sayin’. Still! The resources are here. There are also many spinners and yarn producers here, so if you’re into knitting or crochet or other yarn-centric hobby, it’s possible to buy locally! Anyway, today was shearing day out at the Bellwether Wool Company, so we headed over to watch the action. There were about four people wrangling the sheep in the pens, queuing them up for their turn on the shearing platform. Then, the shearer brings one onto the platform and goes to work. (Pictured, professional...

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Vote to help Corvallis-Albany Farmers' Markets win $5,000

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Vote to help Corvallis-Albany Farmers' Markets win $5,000

I voted to help the Corvallis-Albany Farmers’ Market win $5,000 in the “Love Your Farmers Market” online contest, sponsored by Care2.com and LocalHarvest.org. Every vote helps promote local food, family farms and sustainable agriculture. If you’d like to vote, too, click the image above! The Corvallis-Albany Market is currently #71 in the top 100 markets with the most votes — I know they deserve to be higher on that list!

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Rhubarb Crisp

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I am not well-versed in the rhubarb world, but I thought I’d share this rhubarb crisp recipe from Foodwishes, the video recipe blog. Enjoy! (follow the link to get all the recipe details) Updated: Included this on the recipes page.

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Changes

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Changes

What do you think of the new look? I was getting tired of my photos at the top of the page & wanted something more colorful. I’ve also recently decided to change the tone of the blog a little (yes, again!) and make it more personal. I’m going to put up a page about our efforts to go through this quarter of a cow & am going to try to write a little more about our successes and failures in our attempts at living locally and sustainably. Onward!

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Quarter Cow

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Quarter Cow

Well, this will be an adventure… picked up a quarter of a cow today from Bald Hill Farm in Corvallis. There is a LOT of ground beef here. We hardly ever buy ground beef, so we’ll have to come up with some ways to use that. It’ll make some good pots of chili this winter!

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Today's post brought to you by chickens.

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Today's post brought to you by chickens.

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright Remember when I posted back in March, and these guys were all nothing more than little puff-balls? They are 13 weeks old today and each about the size of a medium house cat. With beaks. We really lucked out, not knowing what we were doing when we picked these out — the Barred Rocks are pretty even tempered and hardy. They don’t pick on each other much. The Accidental Rooster keeps everyone in line, but isn’t too mean. Except that he’s selfish when it comes to treats. Oh, we’re giving out a strawberry? WOOSH… that streak was the rooster, grabbing the berry before it hit the ground and darting off to a corner to gobble it down before the girls are any wiser. Oh, Rooster. We haven’t named them...

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2nd Buy Local First Breakfast this weekend (Corvallis)

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This Saturday, June 6, the second of Corvallis’ Buy Local First Breakfasts will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 223 S.W. Second St. The cost is $6 per adult and $4 per child 12 and under. Discount coupons are available at participating businesses.

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