GARDEN CLUB POTLUCK With a threat of a sprinkle which held off until the business meeting, The Gales Creek Garden Club met at the home and gardens of Sharon Hundley for the annual summer picnic potluck. With a little surprise birthday celebration tucked in for KenErskine, and a tour of the gardens,[Read More…]
Gardening
Column | On the Farm: Waiting for tomatoes, garlic, when to plant for fall and winter
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…]
Column | Gales Creek Gatherings: Preparedness and Preschool Pumpkin Planters
PRESCHOOL PUMPKIN PLANTERS A sixteen year tradition began with a simple field trip to Anne and Rene Berblinger’s Organic Farm. The Portland Tillamook Preschool was the ‘alma mater’ of Anne’s niece 16 years ago whose new alma mater is UBC. But a new generation of pre-schoolers has come out every year since,[Read More…]
Column | On the Farm: Bumblebees, Honeybee Swarms, and Tomato Stories
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…]
Column | Gales Creek Gatherings: Chick day, Garden Club, and Strawberry Festival
Sharon Hundley CHICK DAY!!! You’ve undoubtedly seen calendars with certain holidays printed in red. As a child, I would sit down with the newly acquired calendar, and after perusing the beautiful pictures, I would take note of all the “Red Letter Days”. Nowhere did I ever see Chick Day marked in red. It[Read More…]
Column | On the Farm: Garden Starts, Oregon Legislature
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…]
Column | Gales Creek Gatherings: Gardening, church, and food
Sharon Hundley SEED TO SUPPER Planning and planting your garden, soil sampling and amending, container gardening, mulching, watering and weeding, gardening for health, cooking from your garden, and others are class topics in this 6 week course happening at Gales Creek Church which began February 22. Seed to Supper is a free[Read More…]
Seed Swap gardening event returns to Forest Grove
The 2018 Seed Swap. Photo: Joe Hundley FOREST GROVE – A popular gardening event is returning to Forest Grove on Saturday, February 16 with the Dairy Creek Community Food Web’s Spring Seed Swap, held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Bede Episcopal Church 1609 Elm Street. Participants at[Read More…]
Column | On the Farm: Seeds, Okra, Seed Swaps
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…]
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