Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Saving seeds By Kym Pokorny As the gardening season winds down and you pick the season’s last vegetables let some plants go to seed and harvest them for planting next year. “Saving seed can be really fun and is a great way to learn about plants,” said Weston Miller, a horticulturist with Oregon State University Extension Service. “If you choose the right types of vegetables, you can keep them going year after year without buying them again.” The key to saving seed is selecting open-pollinated or heirloom plants, which produce offspring...
High-water mark of Oregon’s postwar-timber-era culture Pixie kitchen By Finn J.D. John It goes without saying that Oregon has changed in the 50 years that have gone by since the Tom McCall era. People who remember Oregon in 1967 look back on a sort of Edenic place, comfortably conservative in some ways and progressive in others; a place with plentiful good-paying jobs and high levels of public services and low taxes and excellent roads, all paid for by a booming timber industry. It went away, of course, when the mills started mechanizing and t...
