It wasn't an auspicious beginning to a meeting. As I sat down to talk with Josh Alsberg, aka "Fruit Monkey" and proprietor ...

No matter how you say it, spring in the Northwest is a much-anticipated season. Gardeners are getting out their seed packets and determin...

As Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm is fond of pointing out, we here in the Northwest live in a maritime climate, on the same latitud...

In case you've been living in a cave the past couple of weeks, it's time to peek out and smell the strawberries. Or, as Josh Alsb...

I noticed it a few weeks ago. Little yellow buds had appeard on the forsythia outside my kitchen window, one of the first signs that spri...

Despite what you think, true winter in the Pacific Northwest, at least as far as most of the country is concerned, is a fleeting thing. Y...

It's time for the fall edition of In Season, where I sit down to talk with Josh Alsberg of Rubinette Produce  (above) about what we...

"Strawberries strawberries strawberries!" are the words spilling out of Josh Alsberg's mouth when I ask what's going to...

in·flo·res·cence noun 1. The complete flower head of a plant including stems, stalks, bracts, and flowers. 2. The arrangement of the fl...

It's mid-June and already heads are spinning among farmers, produce buyers and customers. Last year's spring temperatures brought...