OREGON COUNTRY FAIR
called “Music From the Center,” he said.
“From 1975 to 1977 I was working at the
KLCC booth which started, like most of us,
in Community Village.”
In 1977, because of Black’s association
with KLCC and access to local musicians,
the fair asked him to be the stage manager.
‘The mainstage is
the party stage,
where people can
really shake a leg!’
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“A couple years into the ’80s I became the
overall coordinator, which entailed every-
thing! I was the coordinator, the MC, the
manager, the booking person, the budget per-
son,” Black said. In that capacity, he got to
decide how much money to spend on enter-
tainment and who gets it. He estimates he has
overseen the spending of a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars bringing entertainment to the fair.
“The mainstage is the party stage,” he said.
“It’s where people can really shake a leg!”
Black estimates that KLCC’s broadcasts
from the fair reach a third of Oregon’s pop-
ulation, many listening “in their hammock
or in their backyard, if they don’t want to
interface with the activity of being out on
the path and living it live.”
He has gone on to work closely with
the Eugene Celebration and Springfield
Filbert Festival as a result of his fair connec-
tions.
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Alice’s Wonderland
The OCF community garden grows
with the fair. ■ By Martha Calhoon
M
ost Oregon Country
Fair regulars are
familiar with such twists
and turns on the Oregon
Country Fair path as the
Community Village, Chela
Mela Meadow and Energy
Park. But one little-known
corner of the OCF wonder-
land, the community gar-
den, has become an integral
part of fair operation in
recent years.
Run by a crew of nine
Dylana, a garden crew volunteer, does some weeding
on a beautiful Sunday afternoon before the fair.
volunteers, the garden is an
all-organic garden on an adjacent plot of land now called Alice’s Wonderland.
Because the land was purchased from Veneta resident Alice Fuller in 2001, the name
was an obvious choice. It was already a rich garden under Fuller’s care and owner-
ship, so OCF General Manager Leslie Scott says the plot of land with its 20 x 100-
foot greenhouse seemed like the perfect place to continue growing food after the fair
bought it. Now, produce from the garden goes to create free meals for the volunteers
before, during and after the fair.
The garden crew is currently cultivating basil, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, cab-
bage, chard, kale, snow peas, snap peas, strawberries, lettuce, zucchini, summer
squash, pole beans, culinary herbs, tea herbs and recently added blueberries.
Establishing garlic and leek plants is a goal for garden workers in the coming seasons.
Fruit trees, raspberries, marionberries, grapes and rhubarb also remain from Fuller’s
original garden, which she cultivated into her 80s.
Garden workers have to focus on early market crops that will be ready by early to
mid-June when the Pre-Fair Kitchen opens. Volunteer chefs then prepare nightly
meals for fair staff including anything from stir-fried kale to “big, fat green salads,”
Scott says.
Apart from feeding the staff, the garden fulfills the fair’s goal as an educational
operation. The fair-sponsored teen camp, Culture Jam, is held every August on Alice’s
Wonderland. Youth from the camp also participate in maintaining the garden, learning
about ecology and sustainability in the process. “Some kids go home from the Culture
Jam saying that they want to start growing their own food and eating more vegeta-
bles,” Scott says, satisfied.
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