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2 CapitalPress.com June 2, 2017 People & Places Duck eggs fill market niche Anthony Bordessa hatches plan to sell into high-end market segment Western Innovator For the Capital Press Anthony Bordessa Occupation: Owner, Wash- oe Valley Duck Farm Education: Agricultural business degree, California Polytechnic State Universi- ty-San Luis Obispo. Quote: “We strive to produce a product that will only seamlessly benefit our customers in their current healthy eating lifestyles!” Julia Hollister/For the Capital Press Anthony Bordessa, owner of Washoe Valley Duck Farm in Sonoma County, Calif., says people who cannot eat chicken eggs can eat duck eggs. He sells the eggs in the San Francisco Bay Area. duck egg, around six times the amount of Omega-3 fat- ty acids and almost twice the amount of B12 vitamins.” Also, people who cannot eat chicken eggs find that they can eat duck eggs, he said, adding that they are highly valued for their great baking qualities. “They add more loft to cakes, give custards and curds a more creamy, rich flavor, and enhance the overall flavor of any dish in which an egg yolk is highlighted,” he said. He noted that because duck eggs have less water and more protein, cooking over low heat is recommended. They sell for $8 a dozen and $18 for a flat of 30. Today, Bordessa has about 2,800 Kakhi Campbell ducks that are free range on organic pasture. Currently, there are about 18 duck egg produc- ers in California, with opera- tions of all sizes. He said the biggest challenge he faces is educating consumers on why duck eggs are more nutritious that other types of eggs. “Anthony Bordessa is a prime example of the en- trepreneurial young and be- Associated Press Through Saturday June 3 Puget Sound Junior Livestock Show and Sale. Skagit County Fair- grounds, 479 W. Taylor St., Mount Vernon, Wash. http://www.puget- soundjuniorlivestock.org/ Wednesday, June 7 “Our Valley, Our Future” Break- fast. 7:15-8:45 a.m. Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1515 E. College Way, Mount Vernon, Wash. Key- note speaker Derek Sandison, di- rector of the Washington State De- partment of Agriculture, will share his perspective on the trade and economic outlook for Washington and on the Skagit agricultural indus- try. Reservations are required. Call 360-336-3974 or email LindaT@ skagitonians.org. Website: www. skagitonians.org Friday, June 9 Gillian Flaccus/Associated Press In this April 5 photo, vineyard owner Katherine Bryan discusses the wines available for tasting at Deer Creek Vineyards in Selma, Ore. She is launching a marijuana business with her son. “They’re looking for an ex- perience of ‘wine and weed.’” The Steeles leased their land to grow 30 medical mari- juana plants last year, and this year they are growing double that amount to be branded with the same label as their wine. They started with seeds in plastic cups under incuba- tors in their laundry room, and pride themselves on a “seed to smoke” philosophy. This year’s crop also is for medical use, but the Steeles are seeing the benefits of the expanding market from legal recreational pot. Their weed was reviewed alongside one of their white wines in Stoner Magazine, an Oregon canna- bis publication. “That conversation is pos- Sponsored by: To submit an event go to the Community Events calendar on the home page of our website at www. capitalpress.com and click on “Sub- mit an Event.” Calendar items can also be mailed to Capital Press, 1400 Broadway St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 or emailed to newsroom@ capitalpress.com. Farm Practices to Support Beneficial Insects. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. SOREC Teaching Farm, 569 Han- Elizabeth Yutzie Sell .... Advertising Director Barbara Nipp ......... Production Manager Samantha McLaren .... Circulation Manager Residence: Cotati, Calif. By GILLIAN FLACCUS Calendar Capital Press Managers Joe Beach ..................Editor & Publisher Carl Sampson ................Managing Editor ginning agriculturalists that are calling Sonoma County home,” said Kim Vail, exec- utive director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau. “There is a rich tradition of agricul- ture that has long driven the economy in the county and operations such as Washoe Valley Duck Farm will serve to ensure this tradition contin- ues into the future.” Although the duck farm is only four years old, sales are growing fast. “We sell our eggs at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Mar- ket in San Francisco, high- end restaurants, bakers, health-conscious consumers and foodies,” Bordessa said. “We are in a select 50 mom- pop markets and numerous Safeway stores in the greater Bay Area.” He said he enjoys his work. “The most fun in my day is caring for the ducks, knowing that we are producing the best quality product possible and then hearing from the con- sumers how much they love the eggs,” he said. Some Oregon vineyards try hand at pot farming JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — Bill and Barbara Steele moved to this sleepy corner of Oregon to start their own win- ery after successful, high-pow- ered business careers. Now, more than a decade later and with award-winning wine to show for their hard work, they are adding a new crop: marijuana. Oregon’s legalization of recreational pot two years ago created room for entrepreneur- ial cross-pollination in this fertile region abutting Califor- nia’s so-called Emerald Trian- gle, a well-known nirvana for outdoor weed cultivation. Recreational marijuana won’t be legal in California until next year, but a few miles north of the border in Ore- gon, a handful of winemakers are experimenting with pot in hopes of increasing their ap- peal among young consumers and in niche markets. “Baby boomers are drink- ing less. Millennials are com- ing into their time, economi- cally, where in 2016 they were the fastest-growing consumers of wine, both in dollars and volume,” said Barbara Steele, who runs Cowhorn Vineyard & Garden in rural Jacksonville with her husband. Established 1928 Board of directors Mike Forrester Steve Forrester Kathryn Brown Susan Rana Mike Omeg Corporate Officer John Perry Chief Operating Officer By JULIA HOLLISTER COTATI, Calif. — As a high school student, Anthony Bordessa was on his computer researching ways to improve his pasture poultry operation when something intriguing popped up: an ad for duck eggs. “When ‘duck eggs’ popped up I clicked on it and started to research,” he said. “I found that the people who had tried them loved them, but there was not a consistent supply of fresh duck eggs.” Although he was born and raised in a Sonoma County agricultural family, duck eggs were a leap of faith. In 2013 he look that leap and opened Washoe Valley Duck Farm. With the help of his parents, he kept the enterprise going while he was in community college and at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo Duck eggs are different from chicken eggs in many respects. “Duck eggs are valued for their high nutrient content,” Bordessa said. “There is close to 10 grams of protein in one Capital Press ley Road, Central Point, Ore. This is Day 1 of a two-day class to raise awareness of on-farm beneficial in- sects and birds and how to identify them. Learn about the role they play in farming hand-in-hand with nature and how to create “farmscaping” to attract and promote active benefi- cials. Day 2 is June 30. Cost: $15 one/$25 two from the same farm. Website: http://bit.ly/JacksonSmall- FarmDream. Saturday, June 10 PDX Hempfest Expo. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Drive, Portland, Ore. More than 100 exhibitors and 40 speak- ers on subjects such as best prac- tices. Cost: $20. Website: http:// pdxhempfestexpo.com/ Wednesday, June 14 Six-week Forestry Short Course. 9 a.m.-noon. Federal Building meeting room, Seventh Street and College Avenue, St. Maries, Idaho. This course will be six successive Wednesdays. The $38 fee includes resource material. Register by phone at 208-245-2422 before June 7. Thursday-Friday June 15-16 2017 Interpera Congress. Wenatchee Confluence Technolo- gy Center, 285 Technology Center sible here because our quality — the agricultural possibility — is so high. This is an amaz- ing growing region,” Barbara Steele said. It’s hard to know exactly how many in the wine indus- try are looking at pot here, but there’s plenty of buzz sur- rounding the subject. Some vineyards are rip- ping out portions of grapes in favor of marijuana plants or leasing land to private grow- ers. Others are talking about wine-and-weed tourism, in- cluding high-end shuttles that would stop at local wineries for tastings and at marijuana farms for glimpses of how pot is prepared for market. “There are a few winer- ies setting up very large rec- reational grows right now,” said Brent Kenyon, of the marijuana consulting business Kenyon & Associates, based in southern Oregon. “The ‘weedery’ and the winery. I think that’s huge, and we see it developing.” But that enthusiasm comes with a caveat. Marijuana is still federally illegal, and win- eries must keep their wine and weed businesses separate or risk losing a federal permit that allows them to bottle and sell wine. That means establishing two distinct lots for tax pur- poses and keeping two licens- es with the state, said Chris- tie Scott, alcohol program spokeswoman for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which also licenses recre- ational marijuana. Vineyards that grow grapes but don’t have a liquor license, how- ever, could get a recreational marijuana license, she said. In the nearby Illinois Val- ley, Katherine Bryan is tack- ling these challenges as she launches a marijuana business with her son. She owns Deer Creek Vineyards with her husband, but her pot operation will be called Bryan Family Gardens and will operate on land next to the vineyard. “We want to be as trans- parent as possible because when you’re under the federal government umbrella for your wines, you have to be very, very careful,” Bryan said. She plans to grow several hundred marijuana plants with a focus on organic cultivation and an eye toward a high-end market. They already have some buyers lined up and are install- ing greenhouses and lighting as they await approval of their recreational license. “I get $2,000 a ton for my Pinot gris grapes, whereas I can make potentially $2,000 or more per pound of canna- bis,” Bryan said. “We have 31,000 plants out here for grapes, so I’m pretty sure I can handle 300 to 500 canna- bis plants.” Mark Wisnovsky, of Valley View Winery in Jacksonville, says some vintners are upset because of the stigma associ- ated with marijuana. But his family’s winery was the first in the Applegate Valley in 1971, and everyone thought they were crazy then, too, he said. The family isn’t cultivating marijuana now, but Wisnovsky has been a vocal supporter of those who want to do so. Diversifying with weed could save vineyard owners who have overplanted grapes for years, he added. GASES / WELDING / SAFETY / FIRE www.oxarc.com Way, Wenatchee, Wash. The con- ference features presentations from world experts on emerg- ing pear varieties, high-density planting, root stock, harvest and packing house mechanization, integrated pest management suc- cesses, export trade flows and successful practices for building consumer demand. http://ncwctc. com. Friday-Sunday June 16-18 Glenwood Ketchum Kalf Rodeo and Bull Bash. Glenwood Rodeo Grounds, Trout Lake Highway, Glenwood, Wash. The Bull Bash starts at 7 p.m. June 16, followed by the rodeo, which starts at 12:30 p.m. June 17-18. Website: http://business.gorge.net/ glenwoodrodeo. Saturday, June 17 Forest Thinning and Pruning Field Day. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. University of Idaho Extension office, 1808 N. Third St., Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Whether you have problems with insects, disease or concerns about fire, the response from foresters is nearly universal: Thin your forest. Presentations about thinning and financial assistance will be followed by a field trip to a thinned stand. A $20 fee includes a field notebook or publications. Register by June 9. 20 Northwest Locations Tuesday, June 20 Trees and Taxes workshop. 5-7:30 p.m. Coos County Extension Office, 631 Alder St., Myrtle Point, Ore. This class is for anyone with forest management expenses, re- cent forest income or planning for future income from their forestland. Tammy Cushing, Extension special- ist in forest economics, manage- ment and policy, will explain topics many landowners are unaware of and the special provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that per- tain to forestland and income gen- erated from the land. This session will help improve the records you keep on your forestland as well as minimize the taxes that you pay for income generated by your forest. Pre-registration is required by June 16. For questions, call Shawna at 541-572-5263. Web- site: http://extension.oregonstate. edu/coos/. Tuesday-Wednesday June 20-21 Center for Produce Safety Re- search Symposium. 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