Pick a Pepper

By Jaret Foster, Senior Market Manager of Portland Farmers Market A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of being invited to attend a sweet pepper tasting conducted by my friend Lane Selman. Lane works with the Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative (NOVIC) cultivating, among other things, sweet pepper varieties on several Willamette Valley [...]

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I’m Going to Carve You Like A Pumpkin

And that’s exactly what you can say to a pumpkin this Saturday at our PSU Market. PFM’s annual pumpkin carving contest is this Saturday at 9am. We provide the squash for free – you provide the artistry. Between 9 and Noon – or while supplies last – pick a pumpkin, carve it up, compost the [...]

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Behind Burning Eyes

Article by Miriam Garcia In the course of the year, there are a few special days when ordinary social rules are turned upside-down for a brief spell. On Halloween, for example, normally mild-mannered citizens roam the streets at night. They threaten respectable householders with mean tricks. They gorge on normally forbidden foods. And that’s just [...]

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Lazy Saturday

Photos & Article by Elizabeth Miller I have decided to give in. The rain, the chilly nights, the fact that sunset creeps closer and closer to 5PM each day—I get it. It’s autumn. In what can only be called a completely unexpected move on my part, I have chosen to not dread the upcoming endless [...]

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Food Day & PFM

This weekend you might hear talk about Food Day. This isn’t the FOODday, the one our friends at the Oregonian publish on Tuesdays, the one we contribute a bi-weekly article  called Market Watch to, this Food Day is like Earth Day, only for food. On October 24, Food Day promoters encourage people to Eat Real. [...]

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Liz Crain has an idea on how to spend that $5 in your pocket

We heart Liz Crain at the Market. She is generous with her time, willing to dive in to any task, and a lover of food. What more do you want from a friend? Liz, Market vendor Dave Barber (Picklopolis & Bingo) and George Winborn have teamed up to organize this Thursday’s Fermentation Fest at Ecotrust. Earlier [...]

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First Pears, Last Tears

Eternal Summer of the Bosc-less Mind Article & Photos by Aaron Gilbreath While picking Italian plums in a friend’s North Portland backyard recently, I angered some yellow jackets, climbed up a light pole, and eating the fruit as I picked instead of sorting and washing, I ingested part of what might have been insect larvae. [...]

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iFruit

Eris, the goddess of discord*, threw a golden apple on the table and said it belonged to the fairest one, next thing you know…the Trojan War. The apple wasn’t any more calming for Adam and Eve, yet the fruit carries much less baggage in the rest of the bible – it’s invoked to signify favor [...]

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Under Pressure

Chris Roehm and Amy Benson are farmers. Together they work Square Peg Farm located in Forest Grove, about 30 miles outside Portland. They are also forward looking – this includes everything from sustainable and organic methods to farm direct sales to communicating with their customers and future customers via a website and blog. It has [...]

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Cheese Lovers Unite this Saturday

Posting from Carrisa Sauer of Oregon Dairy Products Commission Artisan, specialty, and farmstead cheesemakers from throughout the Northwest will converge in Portland on Saturday, October 8, 2011, for The Wedge: Portland Celebrates Cheese Festival. The farmer’s market-style event is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Green Dragon Bistro & Brewpub.  The festival is [...]

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