Springville Farms

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12/31/2024

🌚 Tonight is a rare double new moon known as a Black Moon (like a blue moon, the second new moon in one month)! 🍄 Heirloom Gardening perspectives have long looked to the dark of the moon as a time for deep rooted growth among plants and a time to go inward for us. The Black Moon offers a portal through which we might glimpse and consider new perspectives, elevate consciousness, manifest breakthroughs and recharge energy. Given proximity to a new year, tonight would be a great night to light some candles or go into the dark night to ponder what has been and all you hope to manifest in the new year 🌘 Image: New and Full Moon from the First Book in Astronomy, 1844

11/20/2024

Every year, owners of the Forest Park Drive-In on Northwest Skyline Boulevard in Portland adorn the mid-century landmark with Christmas decorations, including a tree.

The drive-in has been closed for decades, but the owner still maintains the property -- and decorates for the holiday season.

Read the full history of the Forest Park Drive-In: https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2022/01/beacon-of-the-past-how-a-quirky-portland-drive-in-helped-a-wwii-veteran-heal-old-wounds.html?utm_campaign=theoregonian_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

📷 Beth Nakamura

10/11/2024

Have you ever eaten a Hardy Kiwi fruit?
We love this type of kiwi plant because they grow so well in the PNW and their fruits don’t have any fuzz layer. That means you can just pick and eat the entire fruit without cutting/peeling/scooping or anything else.
They taste like the common fuzzy kiwis sold at stores, but because they don’t store/ship as well, they’re less commonly sold.

There’s lots of great uses for hardy kiwi fruit, but we’ve found that they’re so tasty that all the fruit just gets eaten fresh and none is ever left for preserving.

The Hardy Kiwi vine grows similar to a grape vines.
They can eventually form a strong, thick woody trunk, but produce lots of fast growing new vining shoots each spring. This allows them to be trained onto trellises or other structures very easily.
Because they are powerful plants like grapes, they do require a sturdy structure to climb on.

They’re very little fuss to grow. They thrive in our climate and produce tons of delicious fruit each year.

The main maintenance required is pruning them up each winter and maybe a bit in the spring to keep them contained where you want them to be growing.
Pruning also increases fruit production.

They’re stunning lush vines. So have a great value as an ornamental part of a landscape. They are also deciduous and their leaves turn lovely shades in fall.

Hardy kiwis require both a male and female plant next to each other to produce fruit, both types are clearly marked at our nursery. One variety, “Issai” is self fertile, if you have limited space and can’t fit two plants.

The fall is the ideal time to plant a Hardy Kiwi Vine.

09/11/2024

Amazing resource:

The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be a member to use it.

08/25/2024

08/24/2024

Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine by Steven Foster and Rebecca Johnson
Excerpt:
Lemon Balm Melissa officinalis
For most of its long history, lemon balm has been used as a sedative, antispasmodic, and antibacterial. The genus name, melissa, comes from the greek word for "bee" because plants belonging to this genus are so attractive to honeybees. Traditional and current uses; in addition to being considered a cure-all, lemon balm has been used to heal wounds, soothe bites and stings, to prevent and treat cold sores, and to relax nerves.
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08/09/2024

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07/06/2024

Maupin-based Imperial Ranch Farms and Shaniko Wool Company have helped provide wool to Ralph Lauren for the last three Winter Olympics and Paralympics ceremony outfits. The wool company helped with the summer games for the first time this year, providing wool for the opening ceremony blazers.