I'm getting back to this series because the last few days of our visit to BC's Okanagan deserve their time in the sun. This stage...

"I am not an academic, historian, anthropologist, or botanist, but just an adventurous cook and a lover of the natural world who del...

You know the post I wrote about the lacinato kale in the garden that I can't seem to pull out? The one that recently started produci...

"I'm ceding the field to Chloe today," said Jack Czarnecki, master mushroom and truffle hunter. He'd just been bested b...

I've written about the sweet hideaway that is Fehrenbacher Hof in the Goose Hollow neighborhood. Today Dave and I stopped in, the lo...

Sláinte!

Nascar and monster trucks have their fans, but for me an afternoon spent out in the fresh air listening to the heaving breath of big hors...

I'd heard about Oregon truffles. I'd eaten Oregon truffles. But I'd never had the opportunity to go out and dig them myself. ...

Speaking of gardening , there are some lessons that I've had to learn the hard way. My recent Waterloo came in the form of a friend o...

Jack Czarnecki is a busy guy. Not only does he spend countless hours tramping through the woods looking for mushrooms and Oregon truffles...

When I planted those lacinato kale seeds in the garden last spring, I figured I'd get some good eating from their greens later in th...

If you love our Northwest oysters as much as I do, then there's a good chance you'll be shucking oysters at some point. But if you...

My friend Linda Colwell isn't what you'd call an excitable sort, but when it comes to the goodness coming from the fields of an ...

The e-mail's subject line was enough to grab my attention: "Oink oink." Turns out my friend Matt Berson, winemaker under ...

Recent noontime visits to this trio of newcomers revealed much promise, with a side of newbie-itis. With big bro Autentica holding cou...

Nothing scarier than a five-week-old Cardigan Corgi puppy…so cute your head could explode. I know because it happened to me. Yikes.

Pssssst…don't tell anyone, but despite dire predictions of blizzards and storms, the daffodils are coming up around the neighborhood,...

Year-round farming in the Willamette Valley is not for the faint of heart. But let's face it, there's not much chance of getting ...