Tasting award-winning pies will be as easy as…well, pie, on Thursday, August 5, at the Buckman Portland Farmers Market, when the winners of the Pietopia 2010 contest will be presented, along with a general pie sampling extravaganza.
More and more Portlanders are planting a garden this year, large or small, new or well-established. But garden or no garden, anyone who enjoys putting together meals when produce is the most fresh and varied, will head to a local farmers market occasionally this summer for fruit and veggies and possibly other Oregon and Southwest Washington products to eat, drink and beautify their homes.
New Zealand based merino wool pioneer for the outdoors, Icebreaker, launched its new range of merino technical knits for runners at this month’s leading Outdoor show which was held in Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance in Germany.
Got a hankering for wild mushrooms? The Portland Farmers Market may be your ticket.
When Fletcher visited one of the market’s six locations, she found a mushroom vendor that had “incredible” wild mushrooms at a price she never would have seen at her local market.