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. North Coast and Peninsula TU ES for 22 $ Mon-Fri 4-6pm ECIAL! Happy Hour! Y P IZ Z A DA Piz 2 zas SP I putter around here all day just to be on time for the $1 off Draft Beers or a Well Drink Seaside 451 Ave U Golf Seaside Course 503-738-5261 seasidegolfcourse@gmail.com 503.755.1818 www.camp18restaurant.com Favorite stop to & from the Coast 503.325.7414 bakedak.com #1 12th Street, Astoria, OR ILIES FAM OME! C WEL Hungry Harbor GrillE 3 8TH & L, ON THE S EAV IEW BEAC H APPROAC H 3 60-642-7880 3 13 Pa c ific Hw y, Do w n to w n Lo n g Be a c h, W A 3 60-642-5555 • w w w.hu n gryha rb o r.c o m DEPOT DEC K NOW OPEN –– COM E EN JOY OUR K ITE ROOM ! –– Buy 1 Meal, Get 1 1/2 off (of equal or lesser value) Monday-Thursday Offer expires 8/31/18 303 1st Avenue South, Ilwaco, Washington 360-777-3740 • travsplace.net OPEN AT 4 AM COURTESY CLATSKANIE FARMERS MARKET 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.