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Tomato plants and the Oregon coast are not easy friends. Our coastal region has so many challenges for tomato plants to overcome–cooler days and nights, a shorter growing season, less daytime heat to encourage ripening, summer mist and rain–sometimes it can feel like a huge effort to grow a tomato plant all for the thrill…
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Lately there has been a trend on social media for people to post photos of themselves from a decade ago, the year 2016. And while I’m not much for participating in ‘post a photo from x specific situation!’ trends, it has gotten me thinking about 2016. The photo above might seem to you like any…
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Beans: fruit or vegetable? Technically beans are a fruit, because they carry their seeds on the inside of their skin. (It’s more involved than that, but that’s basically the gist of it.) Perhaps it’s because beans are mostly eaten in savory recipes that they are usually grouped with vegetables, along side other ‘fruits’ like tomatoes…
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At the start of my farming career I would never have predicted that winter squash would become one of my favorite crops to grow and sell. I thought of them mainly as decorative, and wasn’t familiar with cooking with them much beyond the widely available acorn or butternut types. I liked winter squash, and certainly…