Gallery Time: Farm Ageddon

Stephanie and Feral announced one day that the call had come in: a friend of theirs, maybe an hour or so away, had given us permission to glean their peach orchard. Gleaning means to simply collect the fruits that have fallen to the ground following the initial harvest, and so we spent a focused few hours …

Gallery Time: Mussel Beach

This was about the most perfectly conceived and executed end-to-end gastronomic event of our stay in Oregon. Stephanie, fed up with the heat, announced we were headed to the coast in order to cool down, dip our toes in the ocean, and knock some mussels off the rocks at a secret location and accessible only …

Farm Ageddon & Naked Chicks

Much has happened, all terrific.  Long post here, but for the visually inclined some pictures are embedded and there are several related galleries up for perusal. *** We’re in southern Oregon. Early one morning I was enjoying a cup of coffee with Leonie in Stephanie’s kitchen, surrounded by the hundreds upon hundreds of peaches that …