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 [...]
Oregon Country Fair
July 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tour de Coops Recap
July 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The 2008 Tour de Coops was last Saturday and we estimate somewhere between 125-150 people came through our yard from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. By the end, I felt like I was slurring my words from talking so much that day. I had my “chicken-experience-in-a-nutshell” down to about two minutes.
As you may recall, I [...]
Tags: events · urban chickens