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Artichokes got heart

By: webmaster January 18, 2020February 16, 2020

Eventsartichokes, digestive health, edible garden, green globe, heart, imperial stars, minerals, mulching, raised beds, veggies, violetto, vitamins, well-amended soil

January is the perfect time to plant artichokes, a vegetable with a heart full of goodness. There are more than a dozen tasty and healthy reasons to grow them, and luckily for us,

Juniper

By: webmaster May 16, 2019October 13, 2019

Eventscentral Oregon, compost, eastern Oregon, fungi, grassland ecosystem, juniper, manure, mineral dust, raised beds, topsoil, worm castings

If you are thinking about building raised beds this year, we highly suggest using Juniper. While cedar and fir are often preferred building materials,

Stewarding Your First Garden

By: webmaster March 12, 2019November 22, 2019

Eventsclay-like, compost, habitats, horticultural, manure, mulching, pollinator, rain gardens, raised beds, sandy, silty, symbiotic relationships

I love Portland for its bastion of dedicated gardeners, green thumb heretics, and impassioned seed savers. For the pollinator habitats, rain gardens, and sheet mulching hacks happening on every corner. Though, for first-time gardeners,

Shifting miracles

By: webmaster November 30, 2018

Eventscabbage, cauliflower, garden, grapes, landscapes, leaves, mulch, raised beds, season, tomatoes, vegetables

Perhaps it’s an inevitable cliché —starting your gardening blog by talking about the weather. But, as a season moves in, a season moves out, and with it, we gardeners witness these interrelated, shifting miracles:

Spring

By: webmaster April 5, 2018May 4, 2018

Eventsonions, permaculture, potatoes, raised beds, soil, spring

Spring is here, and this is our favorite time of the year! Even though the temperatures can vary in Portland you can get a lot of veggies in the ground. This is the ideal time to plant your potatoes, brassicas and onions in the ground. I like to get creative with how I plant my…