Hipster brewers in the Northwest, you are about to get schooled by some old dudes. And by old dudes I mean really old dudes. Think add...

It was almost exactly five years ago that my friend Lindsey gave me cutting from her beloved rhubarb plant. It had grown to an immense s...

There's the easy way and then there's the slow way. In describing how Anthony and Carol Boutard process the Roy's Calais Flint...

Dr. John Navazio, a senior scientist with the Organic Seed Alliance and Organic Seed Research & Extension Specialist at Washington S...

Dinner is my nemesis. I know it sounds weird for a food lover, not to mention someone who writes about the subject for a living, to say t...

Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm is keeping me updated on the Great Horned Owl nest in the top of a snag near their house. This mornin...

If you've noticed little bees buzzing in your grass, with tiny piles of dirt pushed up around little holes in bare patches, you might ...

Spring is a slippery girl in Oregon, always teasing us with temperatures that can swing up into the 70s then plunge south 20 degrees, oft...

I'd gone to Ayers Creek Farm to help with some chores, but the first thing I did was to head out behind the house where I knew Anthony...

There's a lot of buzz about the importance of pollinators to our food system and a big push for home gardeners to include more bee-fr...

When the sun has comes out,  the last thing I want to do is be sitting at the computer checking Twitter or Facebook for the umpteenth tim...

Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm is keeping me updated on the Great Horned Owl nest in the top of a snag near their house. This mornin...

There are a few annual events that make me extra happy to live here: Jim Dixon's Olive Oil Garage Sale . The apple tasting at Portla...

This week's newsletter from the Beaverton Farmers Market had some valuable information for market shoppers who might be asking, ...

Living here in the densely populated land of plenty that is Oregon's Willamette Valley, it's easy to forget that there's anoth...

At some point contributor Jim Dixon of Real Good Food must have lived a past life in New Orleans, so in love is he with the people, musi...

Sometimes I start jonesing for a particular food or flavor. Awhile ago it was curry, then beef braised in a chile rojo, both satisfied w...

Dang! With just five nights left, it looks like I'm not going to be making it through my picks of restaurants to hit during Portland...

"This evening we were visited by Comowooll the Clatsop Chief and 12 men women & children of his nation…The chief and his party h...

Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm is keeping me updated on the Great Horned Owl nest in the top of a snag near their house. And yes, th...

They're unofficially called "butcher's cuts," those not-so-frequently-seen-in-meat-cases pieces of lamb, beef or pork. ...

My friend Kim has a flock of around 40 pastured hens on her property in Happy Valley, a diverse collection of heritage breeds like Amerau...

There are all kinds of terms used in what is called the "food movement" in this country, and I find it confusing. Fair food. Sl...

While most of our garden still slumbers under a tangle of fallen sunflower stalks and the weeds and grass that are beginning to take it o...