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It’s Apple Season At LifeSource! See our handy Apple & Cheese pairing guide for full flavored enjoyment!
LifeSource expects our first delivery of the season of Austin Farm Apples! Delivery very soon. Keep an eye out for an abundance of apple varieties in our produce section this weekend! By Jeremy Scott The Apple Orchard At Austin Farms Life On The Farm. Neil and companions enjoy an idyllic day on the farm.
Ellen and Greg Wilt run a diverse organic farm in Sublimity Oregon. By Jeremy Scott The oldest definition I could find of the word “organic” is “a relationship between elements of something such that they fit together harmoniously as necessary parts of a whole.” This definition seems to embody Greg and Ellen Wilt of Sublime […]
How can we grow tastier vegetables? For some, the answer might be water, or, to be more precise, the lack of it. Can you taste the difference in dry farmed vegetables? The Pacific Northwest has a reputation for being rather wet. It’s a reputation that’s justified, but anyone who’s spent a summer here knows that’s […]
Super Nutrition Gardening by William S. Peavy Linda Spaulding, Reviewer Spring! Most likely a person’s fancy turns to, DIRT, as in earth, soil, that is. Mother Nature coaxes even the most timid to venture into the garden for a spring assessment. Even neighbors don’t complain when clanging metal shatters the morning stillness; implements […]
An article by Jeff Watson, from the May 1996 issue of News In Natural. SPRING GREENS! Jeff Watson You remember, that yucky green leafy stuff some of us really didn’t care for as kids. If Mom said they were good for us, they mustn’t taste good. Good thing Popeye set us straight on that one. […]
Citrus are so good at this time of year! They are refreshing, can be anywhere between sweet, sour or bitter, and they are packed full of Vitamin C! Citrus also have a lot more properties than you would think. For example, just one Navel Orange has more fiber than many bowls of whole grain cereal! […]
Nic Tworog has been a crucial part of the LifeSource produce department for over five years now, but his love for quality food goes back much further than that. Nic spent much of his career in the grocery world, starting at Shop’ N Kart in Ashland and later at a co-op in Coos […]
The world’s biggest living organism is hiding in the forests of Southeast Oregon. This spectacular example of Armillaria ostoyae covers 2,400 acres (about 4 square miles) of the Malheur National Forest. It grew to this immensity in just a few thousand years. Each fall it reveals its edible fruiting bodies – mushrooms – as it […]
