Ray Ewing
If you’ve been traveling the up-Island farm stand circuit, I’m sure you’ve noticed – and hopefully tasted – those beautiful and delicious vegetables at the Beetlebung Farm farm stand on Middle Road. Or maybe you’ve seen the eye-popping Mokum carrots, that stunning Reine des Glaces (“Ice Queen”) lettuce or the unusual white Itachi cucumbers at the farmers’ market. Either way, it’s likely you may have wondered who (and what) might be the secret to growing these exceptional vegetables.
The who are Kate Woods and Nick Doherty, the new co-managers of Beetlebung Farm who arrived on the Island in February. And they have dream résumés. Both of them are veterans of Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Tarrytown, New York, having worked a combined six-plus years on the farming side of this renowned nonprofit educational and culinary mecca – but not always at the same time.
Lane County garden resources: A primer and a planner for planting season
What to know for this year s planting season
With winter harvest over and spring planting on the horizon, gardens are now in a lull between fresh offerings.
“April and May are the hunger season,” said Ravi Logan, the executive director of Dharmalaya, a collective promoting a holistic dharma (enlightenment) in personal, social and ecological spheres.
Empty grocery shelves in early 2020, for example, reminded people that hunger season arises quickly for an unprepared people. Food doesn’t simply show up for consumption as if by magic. If any of the intersecting stops from raw to packaged product are hindered, empty shelves might thwart the ambitious consumer.
20 of the best Pacific Northwest garden books: See authors at the Great Grow Along virtual festival
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Are you ready to get your hands back into soil? Now’s the time for seasoned gardeners to plot their harvest schedules and for those new to gardening to plan their next step. It’s estimated that 16 million Americans started gardening during the coronavirus pandemic.
Across the Pacific Northwest and beyond, people turned ignored patches of their yard into fertile plots to grow their own organic vegetables, herbs, berries and fruit.
As spring planting takes place, local nurseries and garden centers are prepared to provide information and materials.
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