Cubanisimo Vineyards, Redhawk Winery and Orchard Heights Winery, all have a fun Labor Day weekend planned for you. Count on good food, wine and music at all three wineries. Check-out the 2009 photos on Cubanisimo's website of dancing customers. Also, Brown's Towne Lounge is hosting a Brewers Dinner and benefit for
Drawing inspiration from the Oregon Bounty Wanderfeast, this week I headed to the Willamette National Forest in search of the elusive huckleberry. The Oregon Cascade Mountains can satisfy your needs for exploration and adventure in so ...
Here's some news sent in from our friends at the Friends of the Salem Saturday Market. Friends of Salem Saturday Market (FSSM) will host its final "Chef @ the Market" of this season on Saturday, September 4 at 11 a.m. Prudence Uncorked's new chef, Mujib Simms, will demonstrate a recipe using local, seasonal ingr
Here's more good legal news for the vast majority of Oregonians who want our state to stay as green as possible -- both environmentally and economically. Hot on the heels of a Marion County District Court judge's reversal of the...
Big day here on the farm. First of all, Sydney started first grade. First grade. Full days, every day, with a new teacher, at a new school that has lots of kids, compared to the itty bitty pre-school/Kindergarten Syd attended...
USDA said today it will finalize by year's end the conditions under which it will deregulate Roundup Ready sugar beets for the next two years.The agency also said it's issuing permits immediately to seed producers, who are ready to start growing the seed that will be used in 2012.Check back for updates.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 1, 2010Contact:Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263Children's March & Rally at the Oregon State Capitol to highlight Need for
Originally posted at the Reform Immigration For AmericaDriving home our point: Immigrants boost the economy
"Slum Textures" 35 Royalty-Free Textures. Back in April and May I spent 10 days in the
In memory of the loss of my father, and in remembrance of my mothe
(Don't forget, Wild Pear is open until 9 PM every First Wednesday.) One of my favorite summer activities? Taking the time for a leisurely lunch with a friend. Friend Shirley and I rarely let life's changing demands prevent us from carving out some time for each other. Although, I'll admit, we keep our goal attainable. W
Ah, it feels so good to let in the light, to freshen the atmosphere, to relieve the pressure of a claustrophobic enclosure. Not anywhere outside -- within our psyche. All we need to do is keep open a crack in...
From the Cattlemen's Beef Board:Consumers are always in the driver’s seat when it comes to selling products, beef included. That’s why success in the beef industry during the coming decade will depend so heavily on the industry’s ability to give consumers what they want – no matter how often they change their minds.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has made a big deal about wanting to entice young people to stay in agriculture, and in particular ranching, where the number of producers is reportedly dwindling.But the National Cattlemen's Beef Association raises this question about the rule proposed by the Grain Inspectors, Packers
3-Course Dinner for Two $39 Starter: Mozzarella, tomato & artichoke hearts. Choice of Entrees: Baked Atlantic fillet of salmon with tomato and asparagus risotto; Chicken Parmigiana with creamy garlic polenta and sauteed spinach; or 8oz. Grilled Top Sirloin with roasted truffled potatoes and vegetables. Desserts:
For the record, being financially responsible is BORING!I'm going more than a bit stir crazy. Summer is ending, and I have a profound urge to be out doing stuff, attending festivals and fairs and celebrating the wonderful weather that is left. Instead I sit around plugging numbers into budget spreadsheets that tell me I don
My wife loves horses, but we don't have one. So she's always on the lookout for good trail rides. We've paid our money and taken our chances with quite a few stables in the Willamette Valley and central Oregon. Almost...
Blogger and radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt writes for the Washington Examiner:The American Enterprise Institute's Arthur Brooks has quite accurately described America as a 70/30 nation, with the 70 percent presently massively underrepresented in the federal government, the Manhattan-Beltway media elite and academia.The 70
(at my studio) It’s been a bit of time since the last post on August 16th. Some major changes have been occurring in my professional life. I am no longer full-time Associate Director at Willamette Academy, but now Creative Director (~24 hours a week). And a full-time professional photographer. I’m heading down t
Nothing like Gilbert and Sullivan to brighten the day!
In the Denver Post's coverage of Friday's Fort Collins livestock hearing:Celebrate the good news and recognize that everyone in the cattle industry is dedicated to offering the greatest product, said Robbie LeValley, a Hotchkiss rancher and president of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association, cajoling her peers to work toward
Women Ending Hunger has come up with a clever visual to demonstrate the amount of hunger that exists in young people in our community. This is a copy and paste from a press release sent in from Neigborhood Harvest of Salem. They need lots of people and it only takes a few minutes. Join the FOOD FOR THOUGHT STAND-IN, 5-5:2
Editor’s Note: Our Cheese and Chocolate Cuisinternship Winner, Lisa Graff, recently completed her week long adventure in Southern Oregon at Rogue Creamery and Lillie Belle Farms. We’ll be posting her recaps over the next several ...
I've been underwhelmed by the religious'y "Restoring Honor" Glenn Beck rally held in Washington D.C. yesterday. Beck's big message was faith, hope, charity. Wow. What a non-big, and vague, theological surprise. Our country would supposedly do better if people had...
As the days grow shorter and the temperature slowly drops, get out and see color change before your eyes at Oregon’s urban and rural forests. From bright reds to deep yellows, leaves of maples, dogwood, ...
Let's put it this way . . . N and I went so you don't have to. Just call us "sacrificial diners". You're right. You rarely see a negative review on eatsalem. There are a few, you just have to dig a bit to find them. It's something the eatsalem contributors talk about amongst themselves. We know we should b
Ooh, I love it! A judge gets into a slapdown. Not literally, of course, but judicially. A front page story in today's Statesman Journal tells the tale: "Judge blocks 43-lot subdivision in south Salem." Download SJArticle-Laack subdivision I had the...
On August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his historic "I have a Dream" speech (originally titled "Normalcy, Never Again") on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The goal of the event was to pressure Congress and the Kennedy
From the National Farmers Union:WASHINGTON (Aug. 27, 2010) – Amid much anticipation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) held a joint workshop focused on competition in the livestock industry in Fort Collins, Colo., today. The workshop had 1300 individuals registered, including Farmer
Portland, Ore.--Join the Oregon Latino Health Coalition and CAUSA, Oregon's Statewide Immigrant Rights Coalition in Portland for a Latino Health Policy Assembly on September 23rdThe purpose of this assembly is to bring together policy makers, healthcare advocates and legislators to discuss:
"All you blog about anymore is diving!" a friend said to chastise me. "What about your gustatory adventures, your hippie cuddle-slut crap, or your crafts?" Um... yeah. I'm still doing all of the above, and admit that elements of each do deserve reporting. Time is at a premium, however,
This week, my adventures across Oregon takes me to a place that used to be a true hot zone of volcanic eruptions, magma flows and a birthplace of mountains – evidence that’s obvious not only ...
Mobilize, a conference put on by GigaOm, is an amazing mobile event. The theme this year is called “Mobile, Meet Cloud”. But the topics on the panel discussions and keynotes vary and are all interesting. This is one Silicon Valley event that is put on in an informative and interesting manner. Mobilize is a
Today's Capital Press editorial weighs in on the infighting that's going on among national beef organizations, which we detailed last week. It starts with some history:Back before the turn of the last century, the nation's farmers got all worked up over the power of the railroads, their only ticket for moving large quantiti
I'm a cliche. But then, who isn't? My philosophical approach to life falls squarely into the cliched "I'm spiritual but not religious" vein that we hear so much about nowadays -- using spiritual in a decidedly non-supernatural sense. So even...
Originally posted at the Reform Immigration For American Blog
Call me old-fashioned, but even though I enjoy Stephen Colbert's humorous take on truthiness, it still seems to me that social policy debates go better when people on both sides of an issue respect the facts. Such as: Oregon isn't...
The eatsalem.com gang is getting together Thursday night at 7pm at Jonathan's on High St. downtown to talk restaurants and blogging or whatever. Anyone is welcome to come down and say hello and have a drink or bite with us. Eatsalem.com is a loose affiliation of folks who like to talk about local food. The blog started out
Fox News' Kristin Brown reports:Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack reportedly said that he offered to resign over the department's handling of former employee Shirley Sherrod - furthering Vilsack's insistence that the blame lies with him, despite Sherrod's assertion she was told that the White House was behind the decisio
This summer is the first summer in the last four years that I haven't spent my days on a boat wearing waders. I wasn’t covered in Klamath Lake's algae nor did I use my skill of spotting a sucker amongst hundreds of other fish or try to keep the midges off my lunch.It is also the first summer ever that I haven't been abl