Winter hobby 2017/2018 is curing meat! I can barely shoot a clay pigeon much less a real one. My husband, on the other hand, usually brings home everything except the bacon when he goes hunting. This year he has filled tags for an elk and a mule deer (plus assorted…
Fresh from the bog! My parents live on the coast of Oregon, surrounded by berries of all kinds. One is the cranberry, which is farmed in floodable bogs near their house. It’s really cool to see how the berries are harvested, it’s a pretty efficient system,…
The first year of the Timber Garden, my parents asked me how many peas I had planted. ‘Oh, almost a full bed,’ I said. They laughed. A month later I was furiously picking peas every day. Peas are prolific, but any pea grower experiences a sense of loss looking at…
In 2017, The Timber Garden Blog will be linked to the new West Central Mountains Food Coalition website. We will be featuring contributions from Melissa Hamilton, our Valley County Extension Educator, as well as several Valley County Master Gardeners. I’m incredibly excited to expand the blog to cover more local food promotion….