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About Applegater. (Jacksonville, OR) 2008-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 2025)
Applegater Summer 2025 •••BIZ bits••• Dormouse Farm. Dormouse Farm, owned by the mother-daughter team Cindy and Morgan Krepsky, has brought their bakery to Jacksonville. Located at 55 North 5th Street, the shop (or “shoppe,” as they like to call it) is open Thursday through Sunday, 10 am-6 pm, and features products from their own farm and from three Applegate farmers and two other local businesses. Their art gallery features several Jacksonville artists. This spring, Cindy and Morgan also opened the Dormouse Garden Shoppe, at the 5th Street location, offering starts from the farm’s 74 tomato varieties and many varieties of flowers, vegetables, and herbs. 541.702.2020 • DormouseFarm.com. • • • English Lavender Farm. Paula Rice, who sells her hand-dyed, block-print scarves at the open-air markets in Medford and Ashland, will be offering classes in block printing at the English Lavender Farm, starting in June. Participants will learn to carve a lavender design into a block and then transfer it to a napkin or dish towel. The first class will be on June 30. Sue and Derek Owen, owners of the English Lavender Farm, will provide lavender lemonade and all the materials. For more details, contact Sue. The farm will open for visitors on June 13 and will be open through July, Friday-Monday, 10 am-4 pm. Stop by during the Lavender Festival, June 20-22 and July 11-13! 8040 Thompson Creek Road • 541-846-0375 • sue@englishlavenderfarm.com. • • • The Lindsay Lodge. Anna Eastman, co-owner of the Lindsay Lodge, is happy to announce that the Myrtle and Goldmining rooms finally have showers. The Applegate Evening Market, at the Lindsay, started on May 14 and will be open every Wednesday, from 5-8 pm, throughout the summer. The restaurant opened for summer hours in May. Dinner is served Thursday through Sunday, 4-9 pm. Come and enjoy a cocktail, a glass of wine, or dinner on the deck of the lodge, in the bucolic atmosphere of the Applegate River flowing under the green bridge. 15100 Highway 328 • 541-846-6690 • anna@thelindsaylodge.com. • • • Mama Bees Flower Farm. Lots of new things are happening at Mama Bees Flower Farm! Starting in July, the flower fields will be open for U-pick—come stroll through rows of vibrant blooms and make your own bouquet. Mama Bees is now included in the Rogue Valley Farm Tour on July 20. Swing by to see behind the scenes of farm life and enjoy some goodies. The farm store is opening soon (date TBA) and will be filled with fresh flowers, unique gifts, farm eggs, locally made goods, and more. A new driveway will take guests right down to the field and farm store (hopefully finished by press time!). 10561 North Applegate Road • 541-248-8533 • Brittni Doyle, IG @ Mamabeesflowerfarm. • • • Provolt Store. The Provolt Store is celebrating 150 years! Established in 1875, the Provolt Store has served our community for all those years. Officially called the Provolt Country Store and Deli, they serve amazing, made-from-scratch soups, sandwiches, pastries, and pizzas, and have, by all accounts, the best carrot cake in the west. They also serve authentic Korean barbecues in the summer. If you haven’t been there—or if it’s been years since your last visit—come by, experience a bit of living history, and make the Provolt Store a regular stop when you’re in the Applegate. Open daily, 7 am-8 pm. Corner of Williams Highway and Highway 238 • 541-846-6286. Diana Coogle • diana@applegater.org BizBits highlights businesses new to the area, holding special events, or offering new products. If you are a business owner, let us know when you move into the area or to a different location, hold a special event, expand your business, or mark a milestone. Email gater@applegater.org. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We welcome letters to the editor but ask that all submissions be signed and include contact information for verification purposes. Anonymous letters will not be published. We’d also like to thank the kind individual who sent an anonymous letter along with a generous donation. While we can’t publish the letter, your support is appreciated. Annika Hodges, Editor in Chief, Applegater Newsmagazine EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Part-time Layout Editor Applegater Newsmagazine Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, Inc., an established nonprofit organization in Applegate Valley, Oregon, seeks a layout editor for the Applegater, a 24-page quarterly newsmagazine that is printed and mailed to all residents of the Applegate Valley. Must have design abilities, be proficient in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, and be able to meet hard deadlines. Excellent grammar and editing capabilities desired. Prior experience in newspaper/magazine layout for print preferred. Paid by the job as an independent contractor. For more information about our organization and to view Applegater issues, visit applegater.org. Send resume to diana@applegater.org. 19 REPORT FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD Strengthening the Applegater team BY DIANA COOGLE On behalf of the Applegater’s Board of Directors, I am thrilled to welcome our new board members—Ash Martell, Heather Paladini, and Chris Loeffler. (See page 3 for details.) Thanks so much to these three people for saying, “I’d like to serve the Applegate community by helping keep the Applegater a vibrant vehicle of communication among us.” It warms my heart to know that Applegaters step forward in this way. What a boost of energy and enthusiasm! I am constantly amazed by how people in the Applegate volunteer to help wherever help is needed—not only for the Applegater, but for many nonprofits throughout the valley. At the Applegater, they serve as writers, photographers, copy editors, proofreaders, and distributors. Every couple of years, the board likes to give all those volunteers a party, to express our appreciation. The board is planning that party now, so if you’re one of those volunteers, you’ll be receiving an invitation. We do appreciate you! Another way to volunteer for the Applegater is to serve on the editorial committee. This group is responsible for reading the submitted articles to make sure they adhere to our policies and are appropriate for our readers. If you would like to serve on the editorial committee, let me know. We always appreciate letters and comments. If you have a comment about any of the articles, a suggestion for a story, a recommendation for “They Live Among Us,” or a desire to serve on a committee, let me know. Jobs that you could do without having to be on the board include insurance coordinator, donations manager, storage manager, and others. Or if you have, you know, a contribution, a thank-you, an appreciation, a nudge—I’d love to hear from you! Diana Coogle • diana@applegater.org Chair, Applegater Board of Directors Follow us on Facebook.com/ applegater.newspaper
