BEE Aware Pollinator Fair!
Saturday May 28th: find out how you can help the pollinators this summer! Information on Honey Bees, Mason Bees and Monarch Butterflies. Plus transparent hives (find the Queen Bee!), Mason Bee Houses (filled with live native bees), Honeycomb Planting Boxes, Rhuls Bee Supply, Native Plant Trailer, 30 mins Master Gardener Talk on “Planting For Pollinators” at 10am, kids Monarch Butterfly coloring sheets, free Bee Plant Seed Packets and free Milkweed Seedlings (limited supply)! Farmers and growers will have bee-friendly plants and veggie starts, herbs for sale too. Give Bees A Chance…that’s what we say!
Many of our farmers and growers are Bee-Friendly, Certified Organic, Certified Naturally Grown, or growing sustainably. Ask them what they do for the pollinators as so much of what they grow depends on the bees, both honey and native. Forest Edge Winery (Oregon City) for instance has always grown their grapes using permaculture methods (working with and protecting the natural ecosystems) and they tend their land and grapes using organic practices. This week they will have their Sparkling Chardonnay to taste!
Berry season is here! Strawberries, Raspberries, even a few early blackberries grown under plastic. Want some for the Memorial Day BBQ? Get to market early and don’t be disappointed. Stop by the Market Kitchen, Chef Deborah from On A Whim in Lake Oswego will be cooking market veggies with honey and balsamic vinegar.Pick up a recipe and get cookin’!
The pasture raised whole chicken from Birkeland Farm is just $4 lb and now you can buy it cut up too! Their grass-fed and finished beef is available in cuts now also, plus Lynn will have her frozen bone broth. Seafood coming this week will be Oregon Chinook, Ling and Black Cod, Dover Sole and shellfish, including fresh shrimp, clams and more. Scratch Meats and Shy Ann Meats will have plenty of brats, in fact sausages of all kinds for the BBQ. Pick up some fresh-picked market cabbage and mix up a slaw to go with.
This week the kids POP Club welcomes back the OC Lions Club…with their Lions Strides Program. Kids (ages 5-12yrs) complete the activity course to be entered to win great prizes at the end of the summer season. ‘Lions Strides’ activity happens every 4th Saturday of the month through October.