For Joaquin Ocaña, interning at the Elderberry Wisdom Farm is part of connecting with his heritage. On his father’s side, Ocaña is descended from the Kaqchikel people, an Indigenous Maya group from ...

A few miles south of Salem, the Elderberry Wisdom Farm uses generations of traditional knowledge to grow native plants, ...

From gravel gardens to woodland beds, lady's mantle can thrive alongside other garden favorites, including roses, peonies and ...

like Oregon sunshine. Intermix these with hardscape and groundcovers, including creeping phlox and wild strawberry (supporting a respectable 69 caterpillar species). From 30 to 100 feet, carefully ...

Numerous options abound for covering broad expanses or limited areas of ground with native plants ... repens] (creeping Oregon grape). This low evergreen is one of the most resilient and deer-proof ...

use mulch or live ground covers like creeping thyme, to keep it from evaporating, says Signe Danler, an instructor in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University in Corvallis and a ...

It’s a big weekend for plant lovers in our region. Since 1965, the annual Glide Wildflower Show has featured the largest ...

A native of Oregon, Pettit graduated from Silverton High School and holds a degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University and a doctorate from the University of Arizona. Prior to ...

Especially for those who had left the island many decades earlier, it was monumental to see kalo being planted in Oregon. Now kalo has sprouted thousands of miles from its ancestral home in the ...

The 69-year-old Silverton, Oregon, native is known as NASA‘s oldest active astronaut. Back in September 2024, Pettit marked his fourth spaceflight and first launch into space in 12 years.