Photo by Max LaMonte. Picture is taken from the tallest tree on our hillside. Waiting for Tomatoes Our tomato patch is right outside the kitchen window this year. Almost every plant is growing robustly, and some are ridiculously robust. Everyone on our crew has 20 – 40 tomato plants to[Read More…]

Honeybee swarm Bumblebees Gales Meadow Farm has been a Flagship Farm for the Oregon Bee Project since 2017. This means that staff from the Oregon Department of Agriculture have trapped and helped us to trap bees on our farm to provide data on the distribution and numbers of all the[Read More…]

Photo by Max LaMonte. Picture is taken from the tallest tree on our hillside. Garden Starts, aka Baby Plants Seeds need heat to germinate. Baby plants need less heat to grow, but they do need as much light as possible. Everything growing so far is hardy, meaning it can stand[Read More…]

Photo by Max LaMonte. Picture is taken from the tallest tree on our hillside. It’s time to order seeds again  I am going to repeat some of the material from last year’s column about seeds, because I want my neighbors in Gales Creek and Banks to have seed buying information[Read More…]