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BUSINESS MyEagleNews.com Wednesday, March 11, 2020 A3 New leadership hired at Silvies resort Harrison Ranch Produce offers community supported agriculture boxes By Rudy Diaz Blue Mountain Eagle Blue Mountain Eagle The Retreat, Links and Spa at Silvies Valley Ranch announced that a new leader- ship team will provide “hands on” oversight of the ranch resort in 2020. Recruited by Silvies Valley Ranch owner Scott Campbell, Major Lee White IV will lead operations and staffing as general man- ager, joined by Spa Director Tara Colegrove and Director of Golf Roger Porzak. White comes to Silvies Valley Ranch as a seasoned executive in the golf and hos- pitality industry, working as a general manger for several Discovery Land Company properties throughout the U.S., Mexico and Caribbean, including El Dorado Golf and Beach Club, Diamond Creek Golf Club, Congaree Golf Club and Bakers Bay Golf and Ocean Club. “Silvies Valley Ranch is a special place with opportu- nities for golfers, friends and families to be immersed in the Pacific Northwest,” said White. “I’m looking forward to applying my experience in the industry to help grow the great reputation that Silvies is building in frontier Oregon.” Roger Porzak joins the Retreat as the director of golf at the resort. Porzak, along- side his son Adam, is the co-founder and director of player development for the Porzak Golf Academy in San Diego, California, and is recognized for develop- ing top-ranked juniors, col- legiate players and tour pro- fessionals worldwide. Porzak has a proven record for man- aging worldwide tourna- ments, including the IMG Academy Junior World Golf Championships. Tara Colegrove joins Sil- vies as the spa director of The Rocking Heart Spa facility at the center of the ranch resort. As an Idaho native, Colegrove brings 15 years of experience in the luxury wellness indus- try, including earned mas- sage therapist and estheti- cian authorizations. Since joining the team at Silvies, Colegrove has already insti- tuted improvements to the huge new facility by introduc- ing unique offerings to pro- vide year-round visitors with uninterrupted wellness and rejuvenation. “We are very excited to welcome top professionals in the hospitality, golf and well- ness industries to our team at Silvies Valley Ranch,” Camp- bell said. “We continue to evolve our offerings to ensure that every guest experience is amazing, and know that Major, Roger and Tara will be able to elevate the unique experiences already available at Silvies Valley Ranch.” For more information, visit silvies.us. Contributed photo Scott Harrison from Harrison Ranch Produce makes sure that each mem- ber receives a generous amount of produce in the weekly boxes of- fered. Contributed photo The items provided in the boxes from Harrison Ranch Produce vary each week as the produces changes along with the season. Contributed photo For Harrison Ranch Produce’s last community supported agriculture box of 2019, Scott Harrison provid- ed garlic, celery and onion powder along with squash. ers to enjoy. When it comes to quantity, Harri- son and McAndrew avoid skimping out and make sure that each mem- ber receives a generous amount of produce. “To give an idea of how the boxes are, one guy had a banana box with a lid with it and one time he had to take the lid off to fit two banana boxes worth of produce into one,” Harrison said. “Most peo- ple brought a cooler for the melons and eggs and then they bring either boxes or reusable bags for the rest. I mean there was one week they got a 25 pound bag of potatoes and onions.” Harrison and McAndrew said the resources for their products are organic and local. Harrison uses hand labor and cultivation to dis- courage weeds and incorporates organic products to handle insects, weeds and diseases as much as possible. Members will receive their pro- duce starting in June, but Harrison is taking payments now so that he can plan for the amount of produce he will need to supply for the sea- son. People who sign up prior to March 31 will receive a $50 dis- count from the $200 sign-up fee, which is included in the overall $700 price. The remaining $500 will be paid in payments of $125 scheduled for June 16, July 7, Aug. 4 and Sept. 1. An option to reduce the $700 is available by working approxi- mately 30 hours a week and help- ing with planting, weeding and har- vesting. This will reduce the cost to $350 for the season with a $150 sign up fee. The remaining $200 will be paid in payments of $50 and follow the same payment schedule. Baking is not included with the $700 for produce. To add bak- ing boxes with the weekly CSA boxes, the price is a $100 sign-up fee and four payments of $65. Sign up before March 31 and get a $25 discount. People will pick up their baked goods and produce at the same location. “My favorite part of this experi- ence is providing people with fresh produce and hearing comments that it’s lasting them more than a week,” Harrison said. “This is truly local produce, and I enjoy hearing what people are doing with the produce.” For more information, con- tact Harrison at 541-733-8778 or 541-932-4718. Hutchison the first Whitetail Properties broker in Oregon Real estate company specializes in hunting properties, ranches, farms and timber lands By Rudy Diaz Blue Mountain Eagle Whitetail Properties, a real estate company specialized in hunting properties, ranches, farms and timber lands, expanded to the west side of the United States with help from their first land special- ist and broker in Oregon, Brandon Hutchison. Hutchison, who was born and raised in the Blue Mountains, has almost 10 years of experience in the outdoor industry and sales. When he started looking for a job in the outdoors, a friend who works for Whitetail Properties rec- ommended Hutchison work for the company. “They were looking to branch Contributed photo Brandon Hutchison is the first land specialist and broker for Whitetail Properties in Oregon. out further west so I reached out and contacted them, and long story short, I decided it was the job I wanted and I was the guy they were looking for to represent them BETTER TV FOR LESS! Terms and con ditions Code: DIS apply. Call for DONATE YOUR CAR H100 details . Offer ends 7/15/20. Serious speed! 1-844-533-9173 /mo. Subject to availability. Restrictions apply. Internet not provided by DISH and will be billed separately. 1-866-373-9175 Se Habla Español Call 7 days a week 8am - 11pm EST Savings with 2 year price guarantee with AT120 starting at $59.99 compared to everyday price. All offers require credit qualification, 2 year commitment with early termination fee and eAutoPay. 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Yet this person hesitates to advertise, saying that advertising doesn’t pay. Finally, when his non-advertised business is going under, HE’LL ADVERTISE IT FOR SALE. Then it’s too late. AND THEY SAY ADVERTISING DOESN’T WORK? DON’T MAKE THIS SAME MISTAKE Advertising is an investment, not an expense. Think about it! Blue Mountain Eagle S177413-1 Harrison Ranch Produce is in its second year of providing commu- nity supported agriculture boxes, giving members a wide variety and quantity of fresh produce. The CSA food boxes are pro- vided on a weekly basis start- ing in June and ending in Novem- ber. The items provided vary each week as the content changes along with the season. The first box deliv- ered in July of 2019 provided spin- ach, kale and romaine lettuce while the last box in November provided butternut squash, sunshine squash, hubbard squash and other types of squash. “When people ask me, ‘What all do you grow?’, it’s easier to say what I don’t grow because there’s pretty much all your varieties, and I am not worried about overproduc- ing because I focus on having a lot of stuff,” owner Scott Harrison said. No matter the type of produce provided, each box contains a dozen locally produced and picked eggs. Other items members could receive are recipes for the content in the box, jelly and variety of veg- etable based powders. Patti McAndrew, who is in charge of providing baked goods, compared the cost of a box received from Harrison to what the content would cost at a large supermarket and concluded that members are getting $80 worth of produce for $35. “He is also giving really good, flavorful produce that is not grown elsewhere and then trucked in,” McAndrew said. “Pretty much everything they’re getting is on the day it was picked or the day after.” Harrison plans to expand this year by providing CSA boxes for 25 people instead of 10, growing more produce, and working with McAn- drew to provide a baked goods box that varies from a loaf of bread to sweets or dinner rolls and cinnamon rolls. Each week there will be two different baked items for consum- MyEagleNews.com Don’t get left behind, call today! Kim Kell 541-575-0710
