Hi. I’m Camille Storch, and I’m running for Position 3 on the Philomath School Board. If you live in the Philomath School District, I would appreciate your vote in the May 16th election. I’m a lifelong Philomath resident and product of Philomath public schools (PHS class of 2001). I’m a parent of two children currently […]
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As things warm up around here, Henry’s been starting to schedule 2013 honeybee extractions. (I’m using the term “honeybee extraction” in this post to mean the act of removing unwanted honeybees that are living on their own in people’s barns, garages, rotten trees, etc.) The next month and a half or so is the best […]
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My mother in law is a certified Master Food Preserver (kinda like a Master Gardener) and an active volunteer at our local food bank. A couple years back, she combined her passion for food preservation with her desire to better serve individuals and families who couldn’t always afford good healthy food by starting a program called Jamming […]
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Last Thursday, Henry got a call in the early afternoon from a contact (Wade) who works at the Thompson Sortyard (a distribution center where logs come in from the woods, are graded, get auctioned off, and then get trucked out to their final destinations). Apparently, Wade had been running a specially designed forestry excavator with […]
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Sooo…I got a job. Actually it feels less like a NEW job and more like a homecoming, something so familiar but yet challenging and inspiring. Starting this week, I’m the official social media manager and blogger for Gathering Together Farm (GTF), an organic mostly direct-market vegetable farm in Philomath, OR. I’m going to use this post […]
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The Marys River Grange is holding its November monthly meeting tomorrow (Wednesday, November 2) with a potluck at 6:30 and business at 7:00. I tell you this because I really want you to come and be a part of this unusual and […]
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After graduating from high school, I worked at Gathering Together Farm in Philomath, Oregon for five seasons. In that time, I spent countless hours of each August and September picking and picking up melons. Literally tens of thousands of pounds of melons. In addition to harvesting cantaloupes almost every day for over a month, I […]
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The Grange (Order of Patrons of Husbandry) is a national agrarian organization that is dedicated to community service. Founded in the post Civil-War era, The Grange served as a gathering place that allowed farmers the opportunity to communicate with one another and advocate for higher prices for their commodities and for fair treatment in business […]
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