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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Commentary...
Seed to Table Farm
joins Farmers Market
By Audrey Tehan
Columnist
The nonprofit education
farm Seed to Table is thrilled
to join the Sisters Farmers
Market on Sundays from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fir Street
Park. The farm9s booth offers
the community crisp salad
mix, sweet carrots, deep red
beets, rainbow radishes, and
beautiful plant starts.
Despite the cold long
spring, the bounty is plen-
tiful. This will be Seed to
Table9s first year at the
Sisters Farmers Market. The
farm is excited to further our
reach and help provide com-
munities with fresh produce
and student activities.
Spring on the farm brings
out a lot of emotion. First,
there is pure excitement as
the fields and greenhouses
come alive with patch-
works of greens, purples,
reds, oranges and every hue
in between. The field will
slowly reveal the character-
istics of the hundreds of vari-
eties we have swooned over
all winter. Will the Happy
Rich broccoli really produce
by the first week in June? Do
the Monte Gusto pole beans
really grow to 12 feet high?
Are the Ya Ya carrots truly
the sweetest around?
Second, spring brings
waves of anxiety reminding
us that Mother Nature is run-
ning the show, not us. Our
carefully crafted crop plan
was delayed, then restruc-
tured, when a foot of snow
blanketed the farm until
April. While we were grate-
ful for the water, we waited,
and waited some more, to
plant, squeezing the work-
load into shorter timeframes.
Crowded greenhouses
brought pests we had never
seen before. Then came the
rain, leaving us feeling like
we had suddenly been trans-
ported to the west side of the
Cascades. The wet weather
caused seedlings to rot and
allowed cabbage root mag-
gots to thrive.
Spring in Central Oregon
is just hard on farmers.
Lastly, spring brings an
outpouring of determina-
tion. When one member of
the Seed to Table team gets
a little down, others of us
See SEED TO TABLE on page 23
PHOTO PROVIDED
Seed to Table Farm’s produce can be had at Sisters Farmers Market.
Gate on
Road 16
open,
access
challenging
On Friday, May 31, the
Deschutes National Forest
opened the gate on Forest
Road 16 next to Upper Three
Creek Sno-Park for the
season.
Access remains chal-
lenging, as the road is wide
enough for two-lane traf-
fic until Park Meadows
Trailhead, then narrows to
one lane with limited turnouts
for approximately one mile to
the junction of Forest Road
370. Beyond that, vehicle
travel is not advised due to
large snowdrifts the remain-
ing mile to Three Creek
Lake.
<As the warm weather
continues to melt snow,
access to this area will
improve,= said Kassidy Kern,
public affairs specialist with
the Forest Service. <We
appreciate the public9s cau-
tion when traveling on Forest
Road 16 and remind visi-
tors that if an area is blocked
by snow, do not try to get
through it with your vehicles
as this can create resource
damage.=
Be prepared to park at
Forest Road 370 junction and
walk the approximately one
mile to Three Creek Lake.
Upstaging the band...
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
A young visitor to Sisters Farmers Market upstaged the band for
a moment last Sunday at Fir Street Park. The popular country-
folk duo Appaloosa kicked off opening day of the market season
with several rousing music sets, peppered with intriguing stories.
The Farmers Market’s new day and time debuted to considerable
success, with a good crowd and excellent weather. Sisters
Farmers Market has changed to Sundays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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