I will get into the overall scene of the 40th annual Oregon Country Fair in a subsequent post (it will be one of the only non gardening post I put up on this site), but first I want to show one of the gardens at the Oregon Country Fair.
There are thousands of people who volunteer with their labor at the fair on such crews such as traffic, security, recycling, construction, registration, communications, etc. For over a month these volunteers work on the fair site getting it ready for the three day run of the annual event. A “main camp” is set up with a commercial kitchen to feed all the volunteers. A garden was started on a newly purchased piece of land a few years ago to first supplement and then evolving into supplying much of the fresh produce for the daily meals of main camp.
The area featured in the photos below is called Alice’s garden. The OCF also has the Green Thumb/Flower Crew Garden which supplies flowers throughout the fair and the Site Crew’s two Tree Nurseries, growing native trees that are planted throughout the site.
At Alice’s garden, there are scarecrows scattered throughout the garden, more to add to the traditional artistic expression and flare of the Oregon Country Fair than to scare away the birds…
Greens such as lettuce and swiss chard are prominent in the garden
The snow peas and sugar snap peas were in their last flush of pods…
The greenhouse was only used to start the transplants that were put out in early spring but next year the gardeners plan to use it for early tunnel tomatoes and other hot season crops…
Hydroponics Dictionary
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Going through my magazines, I noticed I have not received a Growing Edge magazine since the Jan/Feb issue. In looking at the website, I gather it is no longer published. Since I received no notice of any kind, I am wondering what sources are available to me now to continue my interest in hydroponics.