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Hobby Farms Climate Is A Challenge For Growers Across The Globe Shifts in temperature and other climate changes present challenges for growers and farmers, but some folks are working on finding solutions. 1.4K views PHOTO: Courtesy of Dr. Jim Myers It’s always something. It could be flea beetles on the broccoli. Or blossom end rot on the tomatoes. Or powdery mildew blanketing the pumpkin patch. (Maybe all of the above!) G...

Visit C. Oregon awarded $40K for pilot Bend-Sunriver-Bachelor luxury shuttle Visit Central Oregon BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Visit Central Oregon, in partnership with Oregon-based charter company Northwest Navigator Luxury Coaches, has been awarded a $40,000 match by Travel Oregon’s Destination Ready investment program to run a pilot shuttle service in Sunriver and Bend called “Navigate Oregon.” Destination Ready applicants were encouraged to apply for “shovel-ready” projects that bolster t...

Two Junes June was approaching and with it, my 70th birthday. They wanted to give me a party, the grown children. I was horrified. At 3 score and 10, who needs a big party full of one’s progressively enfeebled contemporaries raising their glasses to propose sloppy toasts? Well, what do you want, they said rather crossly. What I really wanted—I had known this for several increasingly arthritic years—was a new garden. That was two Junes ago. The garden they gave me is simply the old gard...

Registration for SOLVE’s statewide volunteer event, the Oregon Spring Cleanup, presented by Portland General Electric, is now live. Thousands of Oregonians are expected to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Earth Day by signing up to volunteer on April 17. The Oregon Spring Cleanup event has over 70 participating volunteer projects, ranging from beach cleanups and inland cleanups, to restoration projects and native tree and shrub plantings. Project locations range from Astoria to Bandon, Me...