& Out about weekend coast April 16, 2015 arts & entertainment 4 9 12 14 COASTAL LIFE It’s time to spring into the garden Razor Clam Festival Long Beach hosts chowder tastings, contests, music and more ARTS Jesse Lee Falls He’s paid his dues. Now he shares his music and knowledge FEATURE The Maritime (Poetry) Memorial April is National Poetry Month — the perfect time to visit this site DINING Mouth of the Columbia SPE AL CIAL ER T Coast Weekend’s local weekly restaurant reviewer is back! STEPPING OUT........ .............................................................. 5, 6, 7 CROSSWORD.......... .....................................................................17 CW MARKETPLACE....... ....................................................... .18, 19 GRAB BAG ...... .......................................................................... . 23 Find it all online and more! COASTWEEKEND.COM www.coastweekend.com features full calendar listings, keyword searches and easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. coastweekend.com | facebook.com/coastweekend | twitter.com/coastweekend on the cover Astoria’s Maritime Memorial not only honors those who have lost their lives at sea but also, with its poi- gnant epithets, is a monument of real life poetry. Photo by Tayla Fick COAST WEEKEND PHOTOS: JOSHUA BESSEX ADVERTISING MANAGER: BETTY SMITH CONTRIBUTORS: MATT LOVE DWIGHT CASWELL MARILYN GILBAUGH RYAN HUME To advertise in Coast Weekend, call 503-325-3211 or contact your local sales representative. © 2015 COAST WEEKEND Rebecca Sedlak COAST WEEKEND EDITOR rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Creamery, from Cathlamet, had samples of fresh goat cheese. Co-owner Vicki Allenback said the farm allows visitors in at 1 p.m. every day to help feed the goats. (I can’t wait to plan my ¿HOGWULSLVWKHUHDQ\WKLQJFXW- er than a baby animal?) Coast Weekend welcomes comments and contributions from readers. New items for publication consideration must be submit- ted by 10 a.m. Tuesday, one week and two days before publication. To submit an item, contact Rebecca Sedlak See story on Page 12 COAST WEEKEND EDITOR: REBECCA SEDLAK the seminar also included a kids craft section, food demos and WDVWLQJV E\ WKH 1&): UDIÀHV and a large section of vendors offering plants, tools, books and more. There were plenty of or- namentals as well as vegetable NOTES FROM THE EDITOR starts. I walked away with some leeks that are eager to get in the ground, and my friend showed For me, gardening is end of summer,” Retzlaff said. off her evergreen huckleberry peaceful, a way to connect Peppers especially need hot bush. I also picked up a jar of with nature and a source of GD\V WR GHYHORS WKHLU KRW ÀD- gooseberry jam from Water- pride. vors. “Be prepared to do a lot of shed Garden Works, a farm and Sure, the weeding and water- hand holding with that basil.” nursery from Longview. Their ing schedule can sometimes be One melon that’s known jams and jellies — quince, monotonous, but there’s nothing local success is the Minnesota cherry, apple, pear, pepper and like putting your hands in the dirt midget, a softball-sized variety more — are all made from fruit and making something grow. ZLWK VZHHW RUDQJH ÀHVK WKDW grown organically on the farm. Last weekend I attended the takes about 70 days to mature. Gloria’s Garden Gems of- Clatsop County Master Gar- And, of course, other veg- fered cute patio furniture and deners’ Spring into Gardening gies are easy to grow: leafy homemade birdbaths. Starva- VHPLQDU IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH DQG greens like chard, lettuce, peas, tion Alley Farms, an organic WKH HYHQW RYHUÀRZHG ZLWK LQ- broccoli and other brassicas. cranberry farm in Long Beach, spiration for gorgeous gardens. Beyond the presentation on handed out juice samples. This year’s seminar focused vegetables and another on soil, Skamokawa Farmstead on “Food, Glorious Food” with help from the North Coast Food Web — lucky for me, since I like to grow vegetables. Local farmer and NCFW outreach coordinator Tere- sa Retzlaff and NCFW board member Kelly Huckestein pre- sented to a standing-room-only crowd about the best vegeta- bles to grow on the coast. The key, they said, is to choose va- rieties with smaller fruits and shorter growing seasons. There are some vegetable heartbreakers out there: toma- toes, basil, peppers, melons. Big beefsteaks won’t do that well, but cherry and grape tomatoes are more successful. “We don’t get that heat at Phone: 503.325.3211 Ext. 217 or 800.781.3211 Fax: 503.325.6573 E-mail: rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Address: P.O.Box 210 • 949 Exchange St. Astoria, OR 97103 Coast Weekend is published every Thursday by the EO Media Group, all rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced with- out consent of the publisher. Coast Weekend appears weekly in The Daily Astorian and the Chinook Observer. April 16, 2015 | coastweekend.com | 3