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Farmers Go Wild

ByAbby Quillen

My article “Farmers Go Wild” about conservation-based agriculture is in the Winter 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Farmers Go Wild By Abby Quillen “Frogs are an indicator species,” Jack Gray explains, leaning over a small, muddy pond to look for tadpoles. Here on the 170-acre Winter Green Farm, 20 miles west of Eugene, Ore., Gray…

Blueberry Picking

ByAbby Quillen

Today we visited a nearby U-pick farm, and spent a couple of hours picking and eating blueberries. We had a great time, and now we have gallons of fruit for the freezer. Here are a few pictures from our day… I’ll be taking a brief blogging sabbatical for the rest of this week. But I’ll…