The Eugene Permaculture Guild hosts an annual, free Spring Propagation Fair that I recently attended. The event included a fruit tree grafting portion, a seed swap area and several speakers throughout the day talking about things related to edible gardening. I have always been curious about how fruit tree grafting works so I went to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'events'
Eugene Grafting Fair
March 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: events · trees · workshop
Oregon Country Fair
July 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I experienced a truly unique, Eugene event this weekend: the Oregon Country Fair. This is an annual event held every year on the outskirts of town. Booths and stages are built into a forested setting and people buy tickets Friday through Sunday, either for the whole weekend or just one day. There are various food [...]
September Orchard Tour
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Last year I went on the Orchard Tour at One Green World in October. This year I won’t be around for the October 11th tour, so I went on the September tour yesterday instead. I ended up going solo - just my travel mug and some motown music. It was a lovely drive to Molalla, [...]
Tags: events · food forest · trees
Orchard Tour this Weekend
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments
My favorite local nursery, One Green World, will host their first of two orchard tours this weekend! I might bring a travel mug of tea with me, to keep fighting whatever lingering bug I have, but at this point I am just excited to attend. We went last year on their October tour and had [...]
Tags: events · food forest · plants · trees · vines
Seattle Meetup
September 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Sunday we drove up to Seattle and back for a NW Garden Bloggers meetup. It makes me feel like a huge nerd to say that out loud - partially because I think I sound like a nerd when I say I have a blog, and partially because this demonstrates my obscene obsession with plants and [...]