The SpokeSman • TueSday, november 29, 2022 A9
PET OF THE WEEK
TRUCK OF THE WEEK
BY NICOLE ROGERS
For The Spokesman
Submitted photo
Meet Ryoki!
A quiet and laid back cat who was surrendered due to the health of her
owner and now is eager for her new forever home. Ryoki’s adjustment here at
BrightSide did take time and patience as she is a lovely senior lady who needs
time to settle into her new surroundings. After much patience and love, Ryoki
has become a gentle cuddlebug who enjoys weaving between potential adopt-
er’s legs and purring loud enough for all to hear. This little lady is looking for a
calm and laid back home to enjoy her kitty-cat retirement.
Come meet Ryoki today!
Truck: Hapa
Owner: Paul Mayhew and
Tanya Welker
Location: Otto’s Landing, 652
NW 7th St
Hours: Tuesday though Thurs-
day, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday
11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday
9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m.
Date opened: June 6, 2022
About the cart: Hapa served
traditional Hawaiian food, in-
cluding classics like musubi, a to-
go-friendly snack. It’s traditionally
made with spam, but the cart has
other variants of rice wrapped in
seaweed available. The cart also
photo by nicole rogers
serves their in-house macaroni
salad — a staple of every Hawai- Hapa, a Hawaiian food truck, is located outside Otto’s Landing.
ian meal. The cart also serves
island favorites like lemonade,
served with a tropical umbrella in and in flavors like blue raspberry, strawberry, peach mango and the classic regular.
Breakfast is available on weekends starting at 9 a.m.
Your first order should be: Tanya Welker says to start with the Hapa plate. It’s a dish with two scoops of rice and
then a split of teriyaki chicken and Kaula pork. The plate comes with a side of teriyaki sauce, a Hawaiian sweet roll
with butter and their mac salad. Welker says it’s “a taste of all the Hapa options.”
Fun fact: The cart will soon add a kids menu as well as dessert options. Welker is also playing with the menu, add-
ing a pupu platter during football season, when Otto’s Landing has lots of sports fans catching games in the afternoon.
Welker chose the name “Hapa” because it means “mixed” in Hawaiian and she is half Hawaiian. She also offers cater-
ing for outside events.
GARDENING CORNER
A brief history of horticultural firsts
I
BY LIZ DOUVILLE
t’s too early to talk of
spring plant selections.
That subject is on the
agenda after January. Should
we plant this or that? The arti-
cles will offer the why’s or why
not’s with information that
will hopefully help make wise
decisions that will affect your
garden budget.
While we wait, and hope for
increased snowfall, or rain to
pull us out of our drought, let’s
look at some horticultural his-
tory.
I am not a hoarder, but I do
admit to saving more than the
average amount of print gar-
dening material. At this time of
seasonal transition, the overly
stuffed files offers inspiration
and reinforcement of how the
horticultural industry has de-
veloped. We are a far cry from
Adam and Eve and the forbid-
den apple.
What really brought the
subject to mind was rereading
the first page of the Deschutes
County Extension Newsletter
from July 1984. It was saved be-
cause the front page featured the
Master Gardeners at the Bend
Saturday Market offering ad-
vice. The Master Gardener at
the Q&A table was my husband.
I had forgotten, but we did
offer bedding plants for sale,
gave out seeds for a new bush
bean plant and gave away
cracked corn to the kids to feed
the ducks in the river.
The article also talked about
a major project called a Com-
munity Garden located on Jones
Road at Hollingshead Park. The
Bend Metro Parks offered the
land and the tilling was done by
Bend Future Farmers of Amer-
ica students. Hoses and sprin-
klers were donated by Oregon
Equipment Co.
There have been so many
wonderful improvements to
that garden over the years in
addition to the development of
additional Community Gardens
that have followed these past
few years.
Also on the front page was a
recap of the Central Oregon Ex-
perimental Station testing a new
“water-filled hotcap.” The hot-
cap had been tested on May 3rd
with six cherry tomatoes and six
sweet peppers. Soil temperature
was 38 degrees F, air tempera-
ture at night was 22-23 degrees.
The plants were divided be-
tween the open ground, no
cover and open ground using
the water-filled hotcap. In case
you haven’t guessed, the hotcaps
became the Walls-of-Water we
rely on for survival of early sea-
son plantings of tomatoes and
peppers.
Within 25 years, develop-
ment advanced to frost protec-
tion using red Walls of Water,
red plastic mulch laid over the
garden, and red grow bags.
Why? It was determined that
the red plastic reflects onto the
plants higher amounts of cer-
tain growth-enhancing light
Douville
waves from sunlight.
A prized piece of memo-
rabilia is “A Brief History of
Gardening” researched and
written by Scott Meyer in 1999
and published in Organic Gar-
dening. The history contains
many items to ponder and think
about.
In 149 B.C. Cato the Elder, in
De Agriculture, urges farmers to
plant grapes and olives (because
they draw moisture and nutri-
ents from the subsoil) instead
of planting drought susceptible
grain.
Tulip mania 1634-1637: Af-
fluent Dutch gardeners bid up
the price of rare or unusual tulip
bulbs. In one instance, a single
bulb sells for two loads of wheat,
four loads of rye, four fat oxen,
eight fat pigs, 12 sheep, two bar-
rels of butter, 1, 000 pounds of
cheese, two casks of wine, four
barrels of beer, a silver beaker,
a suit of clothes and a complete
bed. (And you thought bulb cat-
alogs were pricey!)
Frederick II in 1744 distrib-
utes free seed potatoes to re-
luctant Prussian peasants and
makes them an offer they can’t
refuse. Armed soldiers enforce
his edict that the peasants plant
potatoes or suffer the fate of
having their ears and noses cut
off.
The Shaker religious commu-
nities in New England start the
practice of selling seeds in paper
packets in quantities suitable for
gardener.
In 1801, John Chapman, also
The Shaker religious communities in New England started selling seeds in paper packets as early as 1784.
known as Johnny Appleseed,
arrives in the Ohio valley and
begins sowing — you guessed it
— apple seeds
1889: Johnson and Stokes, a
Philadelphia seed company, in-
troduces the “Brandywine” to-
mato. One hundred years later,
it is the most popular heirloom
vegetable.
So many more developments
in our lifetime, some to be
proud of, some not. I recently
read a writing that bears repeat-
ing and thought.
Over the years, we have con-
tinued to tend to gardens. In
many cases for sustenance, but
also to create beauty, retain a
connection to nature, and enjoy
the simple pleasure of digging
in dirt. For nearly forever, gar-
deners and farmers grew plants
using common sense, careful
observation and the resources
nature provided.
Today, we call that approach
“organic.” But that term became
necessary only to distinguish
those time-tested tactics from
the shortsighted chemical prac-
tices foisted on the public in the
name of progress.
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