www.takerootmagazine.com Winter 2015 $5.95 ® Chickens & Eggs Chicken and Bee Care | Tribal Lifeways | Delicious Recipes Poultry Farms | Soup and Broth | Local Food and Wine [ search engine powered by magazooms.com ] DISTRIBUTION WHOLESALE RETAIL BULK DISTRIBUTION WHOLESALE RETAIL BULK LOCAL FAMILY OWNED NATURAL GLUTEN-FREE KOSHER ORGANIC NON-GMO www.glorybee.com [ search engine powered by magazooms.com ] Vol. 4 No. 2 Winter 2015 FEATURES 18 24 30 Essential Partners Tribal Lifeways Raising a Farm Embracing complexity and unseen The Grand Ronde tribes keep their Diggin’ Roots Farm is growing up partners makes Vitality Farms possible. traditional lifeways alive and well. alongside the family who runs it. TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Publisher’s Note 18 Essential Partners 44 Tasting Room Vitality Farms Analemma Wine 6 TAKE ROOT News 24 Lifeway Traditions 48 Eat Fresh 10 Bee Aware Grand Ronde Tribe Farmers’ Markets Beekeeping Basics: Winterizing for Spring 30 Growing Up 49 THRIVE Marketplace Diggin’ Roots Farm Support Local Businesses 12 In the Barnyard Keeping Your Chickens Warm in 34 Chef’s Pantry the Winter Sybaris Restaurant 14 Stow It! 40 Central Oregon Soups The Great American Egg 16 In Good Health 17 Bone Broth 48 RECIPES 17 Bone Broth 43 Spicy Chicken with Peanuts 48 Salsa Lentil Soup Cover photo: ©leisuretime70 | 123rf.com Bone both photo: Magdalena Kucoval | 123rf.com Salmon photo: Michelle Alaimo, courtesy of Smoke Signals www.TAKEROOTmagazine.com TAKE ROOT willamette valley | Winter 2015 3 [ search engine powered by magazooms.com ] Vol. 4 No. 2 Winter 2015 PUBLISHER’S NOTE Frosty, rainy and chilled to the bone! Welcome to winter and our Publisher: Debbie Duhn latest issue of TAKE ROOT Magazine. With a spectacular lineup of Production Director: Gwen Rhoads stories, including articles on bone broth and soups, we hope it Copy Editor: Jon Bell takes your mind o the cold and rainy weather. TAKE ROOT Contributors: In this issue, we introduce a couple of poultry farms that do Alan Turanski more than just raise chickens. We also discover how traditional Bill Bezuk “lifeways” of the Grand Ronde Tribe are passed down through generations and Brenda Sanchez Chris Peterson how a small farm is working to become more diversi ed. As we all know, living Elyse Grau in the Willamette Valley o ers great places to eat and drink wine. Check out the Kara Kuh Chef’s Pantry, where passion leads a chef and creativity drives his desire to share Kelsey Ivey amazing artisan food at Sybaris. Stop by our Tasting Room, featuring Analemma Megan French Melissa Wagoner Wines, a small boutique winery in the Columbia Gorge. Riki Saltzman Yaakov Levine, NTP, Herbalist Our departments are full of great information, including winter care for bees and chickens. We have many great local advertisers throughout the magazine and in Advertising Information the THRIVE Marketplace. Please consider supporting them and their brands when [email protected] Phone:541-952-0300 you shop local. We appreciate them and all who support TAKE ROOT Willamette Valley. TAKE ROOT® Willamette Valley is published quarterly by Duhn and Associates and is distribued throughout Now, grab a hot cup of co ee or tea, sit down, relax and enjoy our winter issue of the mid-Willamette Valley and Central TAKE ROOT Willamette Valley. Oregon. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used without written permission from the publisher. Every eff ort is made to avoid errors, misspellings, and omissions. 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Pantry” community bulk buying event drew a record 1,500 The November ballot was divided down the middle, with a shoppers on Sunday, Nov. 16, at the Lane Events Center difference of less than 1,000 votes. Even though the measure in Eugene. In four hours, sales topped $44,000 for 27,500 ended up failing pounds of staple and storage crops. Ten Rivers Food Web by a slight margin hosted the Fill Your Pantry event at the Benton County Fair- after the recount, grounds in Corvallis on November 2nd, sales doubled over it made history, the previous year. The OSU Extension Master Food Preserv- coming closer ers were also on hand to demonstrate how best to store than ever before bulk foods at home. to passing a GMO Storing food in households is a tangible way to support labeling initiative small family farms. Many local farms grow staple and stor- despite being age crops that can be stored and consumed throughout the outspent three- winter months, but not all of them have storage facilities to-one by the op- to hold crops through the winter while selling only a few position, which pounds each week at market. Many more farms would likely included many pesticide and junk food companies. For more grow more food if they knew they could sell it all to consum- information on the issue, visit www.OregonRighttoKnow.org ers just after harvest. If farmers can sell their entire winter squash or onion crop to customers in the late fall, and have consumers store that food in their homes, then consumers Diagram below shows ideal storage areas that help become a critical part of the local food system. Find out preserve your food for the winter. more at www.extension.oregonstate.edu. Curing onions, Attic –hot, dry to Chancey places for food storage drying herbs very cold, dry in extra cold weather Areas in a house Unheated Room (25˚F–50˚F) Extra refrigerator that could be used Cool dry-onions, for storage canned goods Basement Storage Room (Cold 32˚F–40˚F) Window Well Very Moist Unheated Cellar moist Basement Room with Furnace (Cool, moist 35˚F–40˚F) Root crops, Apples, (Warm, dry 55˚F–60˚F) potatoes pears Ventilation system Pumpkins, winter squash, Potatoes ripening tomatoes Pears Apples Dirt floor 6 Winter 2015 | TAKE ROOT willamette valley www.TAKEROOTmagazine.com [ search engine powered by magazooms.com ] Bountiful garden at SAGE helps feed those in need CORVALLIS — Despite the cold and advancing dusk, food from SAGE is a dozen people gathered one evening in Starker donated to local food Arts Park to harvest vegetables from the Starker pantries and soup Arts Garden for Education, a 1-acre garden tucked kitchens, providing away in southwest Corvallis. SAGE is a partnership fresh vegetables between the city of Corvallis, which donates the year-round to families land and water, and the Corvallis Environmental struggling to make Center, a local nonpro t that oper- ends meet. Stone ates the garden as part of its Edible Soup kitchen used 90 Corvallis Initiative. Every Tuesday percent of the fresh from April to November, com- vegetables produce munity members drop by to help from SAGE in 18,000 free meals they will serve this year to with planting, weeding, watering people in need. With more food still in the ground, the and harvesting. By the end of the total harvest for SAGE is expected to top 5,000 pounds year, more than 600 people will this year. have helped at the garden. They For more information, contact SAGE@CorvallisEnviron- pick hearty winter crops — kale, mentalCenter.org or visit www.corvallisenvironmental- cabbage, cauli ower, broccoli and center.org chard —and take them to the shed to be sorted and weighed. The YOUR LOCAL DAIRY Enjoy all of Lochmead’s delicious products, from fresh milk, to juices, to quality ice cream. From our family to yours. For more on our family owned, single source dairy, visit: www.lochmead.comwww.lochmead.com www.TAKEROOTmagazine.com TAKE ROOT willamette valley | Winter 2015 7 [ search engine powered by magazooms.com ] TAK E NEWS ROOT Prepping the next generation of farmers in Oregon through hands-on training Two generations ago, most farmers learned the tools of the knowledge as well as trade on the family farm.