While a heat wave is striking most of the southern and eastern United States and burning up crops, Oregon has now had it’s second consecutive cold wet spring and summer, much to the dismay of many home gardeners and commercial growers.
Silverton and Mt. Angel area students participating in the Marion County Fair, July 2009. Photographs by Kristine Thomas
By Linda Whitmore Bees – whether commercially raised honeybees or native bumblebees – are vital for pollination of agricultural crops and backyard gardens. Today, bees’ existence is threatened across the country – but perhaps not so much in the Willamette Valley. According to the Xerces Society, which keeps tabs on native bumblebees, a radical decline in wild bee population was […]
