Our brick & mortar's soft opening was on Saturday, the 2nd of November, and that evening my husband asked what I wanted to do the next day. I told him I didn't want to make plans, I just wanted to let the day take me wherever it wanted to take me... and so I ended up accompanying him to our friend Silas' cidery and farm in Mosier, Oregon.   II am always going to be a country girl at heart having spent parts of my childhood on my grandfather's farm in the Philippines feeding chickens and pigs and helping in...

One of the reasons we love living in Portland are the numerous small farms close to the city that allows you to pick seasonal fruits and vegetables (and also flowers!). Today, we headed out to Sauvie's Island, a small island just north of Portland with beautiful pastoral landscapes. We stopped at a small U-Pick your own fruit orchard and pears are in season.