Water woes – Silverton restricts residential use, adds enforcement

August 2021 Posted in Community, Garden, Other, Outdoor Life | Comments Off on Water woes – Silverton restricts residential use, adds enforcement

By James Day The City of Silverton has responded to this year’s drought by advancing its restrictions on residential water use, a decision that has inflamed social media and led the mayor to take to Facebook to respond to the criticism. The ...

Dig it: Grass roots effort to de-weed Oregon Garden receives outpouring of support

June 2021 Posted in Community, Garden, People | Comments Off on Dig it: Grass roots effort to de-weed Oregon Garden receives outpouring of support

By Melissa Wagoner [caption id="attachment_10034" align="alignright" width="300"] Mary Coleman at The Oregon Garden.HELEN THOMAS[/caption] “This is a call to arms for our community to help save our local treasure – The Oregon Garden,” Mary Coleman wrote in an impassioned post on the ...

Farm-zilla: Spring sign-up time for farm fresh produce

April 2021 Posted in Garden | Comments Off on Farm-zilla: Spring sign-up time for farm fresh produce

By Melissa Wagoner [caption id="attachment_9812" align="alignright" width="300"] Farm-zilla is the newest CSA farm option in the community. Submitted photo.[/caption] Brenda Sparks is a farmer at heart. Raised in California by horticulturist parents on a small, five-acre farm, she grew up helping in ...

Blue Star: Oregon Garden honors veterans with new memorial marker

September 2019 Posted in Community, Garden, People | Comments Off on Blue Star: Oregon Garden honors veterans with new memorial marker

By Brenna Wiegand The Oregon Garden is calling all veterans to the dedication of a Blue Star Memorial Marker being installed to honor the country’s veterans. The Garden is partnering with the Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs to install the marker, ...

Olde Moon Farm: Produce for farmers market, restaurants

June 2019 Posted in Community, Food & Drink, Garden | Comments Off on Olde Moon Farm: Produce for farmers market, restaurants

By Melissa Wagoner Spring has definitely sprung at Olde Moon Farm on the outskirts of Silverton. Where, just over a year ago, there was only green lawn, now nearly an acre of garden plots is scattered over the hillsides. What was ...

Beekeeping traditions: The Honey Haus – pure sweetness and more

April 2019 Posted in Community, Food & Drink, Garden | Comments Off on Beekeeping traditions: The Honey Haus – pure sweetness and more

[caption id="attachment_9130" align="alignright" width="242"] Jennifer Anderson-Rumely of The Honey Haus in Mount Angel. Melissa Wagoner[/caption] By Melissa Wagoner The smell of sweet honey is undeniably in the air in The Honey Haus, a unique Mount Angel shop that offers over eight different ...

Million lights: Garden to shine

November 2018 Posted in Business, Community, Garden | Comments Off on Million lights: Garden to shine

A dazzling display of one million lights will illuminate the seventh annual Christmas in the Garden at The Oregon Garden. This year features an added 250,000 lights in the Rediscovery Forest, an expanded ice skating rink, a holiday concert by ...

Pioneer trees: GeerCrest orchard receives heritage status

October 2018 Posted in Arts, Culture & History, Community, Garden | Comments Off on Pioneer trees: GeerCrest orchard receives heritage status

[caption id="attachment_8708" align="alignright" width="229"] Jim Toler, fifth-generation family owner of GeerCrest Farm, in the farm’s fruit orchard dating back to the 1850s. The grove was recently given Heritage Tree designation by the Oregon Travel Information Council. Brenna Wiegand[/caption] By Brenna Wiegand A ...

Path to merit: Eagle Scout organizes shoreline walkway at Silverton Reservoir

July 2018 Posted in Community, Garden | Comments Off on Path to merit: Eagle Scout organizes shoreline walkway at Silverton Reservoir

[caption id="attachment_8485" align="alignright" width="169"] Frederick’s Eagle Scout project was to build a water-access point and path at Silverton Reservoir. Brenna Wiegand[/caption] By Brenna Wiegand Ethan Frederick, 15, started thinking about his Eagle Scout project when he was 12. Eagle Scout is the highest ...

From the ground up: Oregon Garden Foundation welcomes Holden to board

May 2018 Posted in Community, Garden, People | Comments Off on From the ground up: Oregon Garden Foundation welcomes Holden to board

[caption id="attachment_8415" align="alignright" width="300"] Verl Holden dedicates a bench at the Oregon Garden in honor of his wife Florence Hardesty, who passed away in September. Holden is a new Oregon Garden Foundation board member, as well as one of the ...

Over hill and dale: Tour offers personal touch, chance to meet the gardeners

May 2018 Posted in Arts, Culture & History, Community, Garden | Comments Off on Over hill and dale: Tour offers personal touch, chance to meet the gardeners

[caption id="attachment_8414" align="alignleft" width="300"] Steve Kuhn and Kathy Hunter enjoy the serenity of Kuhn’s creekside garden, part of this year’s Silverton Garden Tour. The self-guided tour admits visitors into eight private gardens in the Silverton area. Brenna Wiegand[/caption] By Brenna Wiegand Silverton ...

Summer brewin’: BrewCamp offers fun for grown-ups, families

May 2018 Posted in Community, Food & Drink, Garden | Comments Off on Summer brewin’: BrewCamp offers fun for grown-ups, families

Craft brew fans familiar with the Oregon Garden Brewfest will discover a lot that’s new at the Oregon Garden BrewCamp June 15-17. BrewCamp is a new take on the Father’s Day weekend experience at the garden.There’s more activities – from yoga ...

Rock on: Painted reminders of shared humanity

February 2018 Posted in Community, Garden | Comments Off on Rock on: Painted reminders of shared humanity

[caption id="attachment_8203" align="alignleft" width="300"] Artwork by: Elyse McGowan-Kidd[/caption] By Melissa Wagoner Rocks, often intricately painted, have begun popping up in the parks, outside of businesses, even in the trees all over Silverton. Three groups, organized using Facebook pages, are responsible for many ...

Holly days: Busy, busy time for couple juggling three businesses

December 2017 Posted in Business, Community, Garden, Other | Comments Off on Holly days: Busy, busy time for couple juggling three businesses

By Nancy Jennings If you are picking up your mail or shipping a package at Silverton’s Postal Connections, there’s a good chance you will be greeted by Don Harteloo. Ask how he is doing on any given day and he will ...

Victory gardens: A revival

March 2017 Posted in Community, Garden | Comments Off on Victory gardens: A revival

By Melissa Wagoner “Uncle Sam says – garden to cut food costs,” proclaimed a victory garden advertisement printed by the US Department of Agriculture in 1917. Used to take pressure off of the food supply during World War I and II, ...