Columbia Blossom

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Emily — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:51:03 +0000

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Food Front sign

Emily — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:43:34 +0000

We rounded the corner on the delivery today to find this:

Made our day.

orchard tour

Emily — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:23:26 +0000

Our two favorite coops have banded together to arrange a tour of three farms/orchard in the Gorge. Ours is the first stop in the morning so I hope the sun is out -it’s a good time of day to walk through the trees. And vines.

peach sampling at food front tomorrow

Emily — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:12:44 +0000

This isn’t one of Dad’s favorite things since he doesn’t really like to push his peaches. But ask him a question about the orchard and he’ll talk your ear off.

grapes are super early this year

Emily — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:13:50 +0000

If all of the varieties stick to their usual schedules, they should come on one right after the other. But it’s been a crazy year. The big heat wave in early August actually stopped the peaches from ripening for a bit -as if they were hunkering down and trying not to move like everyone else. And now the Reliant table grapes are almost two weeks early.

a lesser known delicacy

Emily — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:05:36 +0000

cherries are already red

Emily — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:36:51 +0000

We initially thought the season was going to be late this year -after a cold spring. But it seems to have caught up and we’re looking like a regular picking time of mid June.