The daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1961-current, August 16, 2018, Page 13, Image 22

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    AUGUST 16, 2018 // 13
Garlic Festival flavors farmers market
A garlic braid with ornamental
oregano.
CLATSKANIE — The Clatskanie
Farmers Market Garlic Festival
takes place 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat-
urday, Aug. 18, at Cope’s Park.
This year’s festival features
several vendors selling numerous
varieties and strains of garlic:
Music, Mt. Hood, Italian Late,
Spanish Roja, Blanak, Inchelium
Red, Turk Giant, Deerfield, Viet-
namese Red, Georgian Fire and
Metechi to name a few.
Some garlic geeks will be
looking for Porcelain varieties.
They contain the highest levels
of allicin, the broad-spectrum
anti-bacterial element that garlic
is known for. Others know about
the Rocamboles. These amazing
bulbs roast up creamy with that
intense classic flavor.
Others may come for the
Vietnamese Red, our local chef’s
favorite. At least one vendor
will feature braided soft-neck
garlic with dried flowers woven
through the bulbs.
Place these on a kitchen wall
Dining Out
for the decorative effect, then
begin using them this winter.
The cured bulbs will last until
April.
The Clatskanie Farmers Mar-
ket always has fresh produce,
live music, children’s activities,
a food cart and arts and crafts,
but on this day you should come
for the flavor of the season.
Vendors will offer garlic tasters:
roasted garlic on toasted artisan
bread, gazpacho, pestos, salsas
and more.
Go to the festival to stock up.
Some varieties will last well into
the spring. Go to the festival
if you want to plant your own
garlic patch; the growers at the
festival earmark all their largest
bulbs as seed stock. Go to the
festival if you like garlic, garlic
and more pungent, savory garlic.
The Clatskanie Farmers Mar-
ket just received the Innovative
Market of the Year Award from
the Oregon Farmers Markets
Association.
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The 2017 Garlic Festival.
Pull the purple menace
North Coast Land
Conservancy is seeking
volunteers for a stewardship
day dedicated to pulling out
purple loosestrife along the
Columbia River, 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25.
The Conservancy’s Wolf
Bay Habitat Reserve is near
Svensen, east of Astoria.
The invasive plant grows
along the lower Columbia
River and spreads easily,
threatening to overwhelm the
diverse wetland ecology and
crowding out native plants
such as cattail and wapato,
which feed native wildlife.
Loosestrife isn’t hard to
pull; the roots separate easily
from the saturated soil in the
tidal bay. Volunteers lay the
pulled weeds on high ground,
where they dry out and
decompose without causing
further harm.
Wear rubber boots and
gloves. The Conservancy
COURTESY NORTH COAST LAND CONSERVANCY
Volunteers pull purple loosestrife at Wolf Bay Habitat Reserve
in 2017.
will provide the needed tools.
Bring your own drinking
water and lunch. There are
no toilets or potable water
on site.
This stewardship day is
part of a two-year marsh
restoration effort the Conser-
vancy has undertaken for its
properties along the lower
Columbia, funded in part by
Oregon Watershed Enhance-
ment Board.
If you’d like to help,
contact NCLC Project
Manager Amy Hutmacher
at 503-738-9126, amyh@
nclctrust.org, for details and
directions. More details are at
NCLCtrust.org.