Warming oceans could mean more bycatchĪ recent study published by OSU suggests that salmon bycatch is on the rise in the Pacific hake (aka whiting) fishery - the largest commercial fishery on the West Coast. Michelle Estates (the largest wine producer in the Northwest and Washington’s oldest winery) has dropped 40% of its Washington grower contracts but plans to keep Oregon’s contracts, NW News Network’s Anna King reports. Less than a month away from harvest, Ste. They’ll have crops like sorghum, millet, cowpeas and sesame and offer tastes of dry-farmed melons and tomatoes. to see the diverse dry-farmed crops being trialed at OSU’s Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture. Oregon State University’s field day showcases African and Middle Eastern cropsĬome to Corvallis on Wednesday, Aug. Oregon’s cherry growers are requesting disaster declaration after California’s long wet spring pushed their cherry season back by long enough to overlap with the Northwest season and flood the market. We say, put up or shut up! (That sounds harsh, but Aesop’s The Ants and the Grasshopper fable always rings true.) Besides, canning jars have a special Oregon connection - do you know what it is? Read on to find out! More climate change challenges, new dry farming crops for the Northwest, a wine behemoth cuts back and good things in gardens and marketsįreshly picked morsels from the Pacific Northwest food universe: For some Oregon fruit growers, life is not a bowl of cherries Everything ripens seemingly at once, and whether you grow your own or love hitting the U-picks and farmers markets, it starts to feel like there’s too much of a good thing. For folks with a penchant for food preservation, this is only the beginning of the busiest time of year.
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