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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, [...]

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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 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Ayers Creek Farm will be at the Hillsdale Framers Market this Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM.
It has been a brutally busy week, so this update is brief and borrows a bit from previous editions. Here is what we will have:
Cherries: Montmorency, Balaton and Danube.
Balaton and Danube are Hungarian [...]

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Please join us at the Hillsdale Farmers Market this Sunday, 5th of July. The market is located next to Wilson High School, and starts at 10:00 am. Before listing what we will bring, here is a eulogy to a victim of Oregon’s regulatory foolishness.
Farewell Frikeh I
Several years ago, we started experimenting with various [...]

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