Nella Mae’s 7 tips for starting your tomatoes and producing healthy transplants.
I urge the Oregon Legislature to support SB 440 and SB 555 which fund the Double Up Food Bucks program.
It is time to prepare your garden for the inevitable coming frost. You can keep most of your plants going through the early, light frosts. Read on for tips on when, how and what to protect.
I have been pulling my head out of the sand about the threat of wildfires to our farm inch by inch over the last year. Many of us were deeply disturbed by the fire the destroyed Paradise, California. Paradise felt so familiar to many rural mountain towns. I pulled my head out of the sand a little more as my family and I planned to build a house in the woods on our farm. We have made design choices to maximize fire resistance.
I have done a lot of reading and research in the last year about wildfire, and I finally have an evacuation plan and “go bags.” I want to share here what I’ve learned so far. I hope you take it to heart, make your plan, and get prepared for something I hope you don’t have to face.
August is usually a time when the mowing, weed eating, weeding and other garden chores ebb and the harvest peaks. A few yellow leaves off the cottonwoods are starting to fly, and the nights have that edge-of-fall chill. It may feel like harvest and canning time, but it is also time to start planting for […]