Where The Harvest and Hillsdale Meet — Sundays 10am – 2pm

This week marks the last of the weekly markets at Hillsdale. Next month we assemble but fortnightly. The market starts at 10:00 AM, and is located in the parking lot of Wilson High School.

We do want to take a moment to acknowledge Eamon “Shoehorn” Molloy and the Hillsdale Farmers’ Market volunteers. Sometimes [...]

We start our seventh winter market season at Hillsdale Farmers’ Market this Sunday, 15th of November. The market opens at 10:00 AM, regardless of rain, snow or even overly bright sunshine. So long as the market can be operated safely, it will open. Heavy winds are the biggest safety concern.

Some farms [...]

This Sunday will be our swan song of the summer season. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We will return for the our seventh winter season at Hillsdale on the 15th of November.

Like Norma Desmond, our summer crops are showing the ravages of time. The berries, once sweet and [...]

We will be at the Hillsdale Farmers’ market this Sunday. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The showers Wednesday afforded an opportunity to mow the chestnut and walnut plat in dust free comfort. We need to have low vegetation so we can find the nuts. At this time of [...]

We will be at the Hillsdale Farmers’ market this Sunday. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Berries
We will have some Chesters, likely the last of the season. Because of the weekend’s rain, they will be delicate. Use them with due haste.
Pole Beans
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We will be at the Hillsdale Farmers’ market this Sunday. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We will have good selection despite the rain. Over the last couple of weeks, some ComCast customers have received the newsletter late, or not at all. Not sure what is going on, [...]

We will be at the Hillsdale Farmers’ market this Sunday. The market runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We are at the most frantic point in our season, so we will just stick with the basics again.
Berries
Chester
Plums
Seneca, a lovely prune.
Table grapes
Sweet Seduction.
Cucumbers
Preserves
The selection is getting thin, but we still have loganberry, red [...]

We will be at the Hillsdale Farmers’ Market this Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM.
Frikeh III – Fixing the Problem
Food, Inc., King Corn, Omnivore’s Dilemma, and a host of other films and books have identified the substantial flaws in our food supply. These problems seem remote and insurmountable, and the best we [...]

We will be at the Hillsdale Farmers’ Market this Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM.
It was an interesting month in the Wapato Valley. We have been pumping water from an irrigation canal for the last 9 years without a hitch. Last September, a blue-green algae bloom in the canal clogged the [...]

Ayers Creek Farm will be at the Hillsdale Farmers Market this Sunday, 19 July, from 10 AM to 2 PM.
Frikeh II
In the first installment of “Farewell Frikeh,” we noted that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) defines “food processing” as the “. . . cooking, baking, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, [...]