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A Tomato-Only CSA Is Here for BLT Lovers

Copihue Farm offers over two dozen tomato varieties, many of them Chilean.
Avatar photo by Katherine Chew Hamilton

The chronology of summer in Portland goes something like this: Bike Summer kicks off in June, rivers and lakes get mobbed with paddleboards and partiers in July, and heirloom tomato season shifts into full gear in August. Every restaurant and their mother serves BLTs and caprese salads; fights break out at the farmers market over […]

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New Strawberry Just Dropped!

Could Finnito be the next Hood strawberry?
Avatar photo by Katherine Chew Hamilton

Hood strawberries just might be the Portland area’s most famous food product other than Voodoo Doughnuts or Salt and Straw ice cream. But as any local strawberry lover will tell you, Hood season is sweet but painfully short—about ten days, according to Megan Hallstone, vice president of Columbia Farms on Sauvie Island. In fact, Hoods […]

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