Oregon State University is known for its College of Agricultural Sciences. The school offers 25 Major and Minor options that include but are not limited to Botany, Animal Sciences, and even Fermentation Sciences for you beer lovers out there. The ...
By Mitch Lies for Growing Oregon Magazine This is not your father’s farm. Father-and-son team Tom and Jason Hunton have created a farm that does everything from grow and clean grass seed to produce beans for soup mixes that help ...
By Mitch Lies for Growing Oregon Magazine In 2001, Mike Omeg, a cherry grower from The Dalles, planted native plants near one of his orchards to attract beneficial insects to help suppress black cherry aphid. The response was better than he ...
By Rachel Bertone for Growing Oregon Magazine Each summer, organizations bring the dinner table outside to local farms, allowing guests to experience fresh food while learning about where it came from – straight from the source. Plate & Pitchfork founder Erika Polmar ...
By Mitch Lies for Growing Oregon Magazine First came the transition from overhead sprinkler irrigation to drip. Then the benefits started pouring in. By watering only where and when their hops plants need it, Gayle and Glenn Goschie, a brother-and-sister ...
By Mitch Lies for Growing Oregon Magazine The sheer size of the combine stops the children in their tracks. Then come the questions. “Can I sit in it?” the children ask. “Sure,” says the farmer. Score another memory for Adopt ...
Thistledown Farm is a family owned and operated business where the peaches drip off the trees and the Walla Walla Sweet onions pluck themselves right out of the ground. The Henderson family does an amazing job of making you feel ...
By Rachel Bertone for Growing Oregon magazine Families own the majority of the nation’s farms, and when it’s time to pass on that legacy, a farmer usually looks to his children. When a young entrepreneur who doesn’t come from a family ...
