Saturday morning was a balmy clear blue sky day. In search of summer produce beyond our own tomatoes and zucchini (we harvested our first Friday) I hit Port Orford’s Farmer’s Market. It’s high season now and there was everything from mesclun mix to apples. Even tomatoes! My particular favorites: the variety of peppers and those [...]
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Saturday’s Bounty
Posted in Environment, Oregon, Western Travel Writing, tagged Curry County Oregon, Port Orford Community Garden, Port Orford OR, Port Orford OR Community Garden, Port Orford OR Farmer's Market, Valley Flora Langlois OR on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tomato Fare
Posted in Environment, Literary Nature Writing, Natural History, Oregon, tagged Curry County Oregon, Oregon Coast Tomato Growing, Oregon Spring Tomato Photos, Port Orford Community Garden photos, Port Orford OR, Port Orford OR Community Garden, weather on September 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve found people who grow vegetables plant their gardens for a variety of reasons. Some like to dig in the dirt; some like to know where their food comes from and what’s in it; some just love to see the brown earth of a spring plot yield to vegetables green and yellow and orange. Some [...]
Spring in the Garden
Posted in Environment, Oregon, tagged Community Gardens, Curry County Oregon, Horizons Farms, Piedmont VA Organic Farm, Port Orford OR, Port Orford OR Community Garden, Thomas Jefferson Tomato Faire on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday we checked out our plots in the Port Orford Community Garden. We rented two for ten bucks apiece: Each is about eight feet long by four feet wide. That gives us about 64 square feet of garden. They’re raised beds filled with great black loamy looking soil and the water is free. They are about [...]
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