A Grower Perspective

 You never know what secret talents people you work with my have. Take Scott Cully for instance. He's the General Manager at Fall Creek Farm & Nursery. Just a stone's throw away from our nursery, Fall Creek is the world's leading blueberry nursery stock grower. They're an amazing operation, if you're not familiar with them. Well, apparently they hire some pretty amazing people too. I recently learned that Scott is a Guinness Book of World Record holder for carving the largest pumpkin (weighing 1689 pounds). However, it's not just about the size of the pumpkin, the designs he carves are incredible. (See photo in Register Guard article linked here.)

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 I believe High Schools would benefit from having giant swing sets, so would corporate offices, I'm sure. Everyone needs recess to recreate, regenerate and just relax. Today I had recess. Three of us from the nursery went to Maryann's nursery, Clearwater Nursery just on the other side of Mount Pisgah from us. Lorenzo and Pedro went to deliver plants. I went to ogle plants. I could have stayed there all afternoon, filled up our truck with Maryann's plants and been very happy. But my recess was 20 minutes long and just a taste of inspiration. Clearwater Nursery is full of all shapes and sizes and colors of evergreens and other plants. They propagate unusual and collectible plants and are doing some for us so I visited the babies and saw the parent plants the cuttings came from. In planning a new display garden for our nursery, I played pick with many of her larger plants to add as focal points. So I had a sunny recess which will allow my creative juices to flow all afternoon.

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  I realize that I'm pretty easy to please and little things make me happy most of the time.  We were having a little get together at our home this weekend.  As I was sprucing things up, I realized our deck planters were looking pretty sad.  Towards the end of summer I had horribly neglected them and the endless heat of August and September had taken their toll.  I mentioned it to Dave and he kindly cleaned them up and replanted them.  When I came home, I was so happy to see what he had done.  

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Here is a photo of Ted and his beautiful pumpkins. Ted heads up the Youth Farm in Springfield, a part of Food for Lane County. On a precious piece of open land in the middle of apartments and houses, not far from the new hospital or Gateway Mall is a farm, an oasis for birds, kids learning to garden and work, volunteers who want to get their hands on some great soil and Ted who runs the whole show. How are we connected to Ted and the Youth Farm? Ted has a fundraising (seed money) plant sale in the spring which we donate some of our healthy, beautiful plants to and Ted is on my husband's softball team, that is how we know Ted.  Tuesday I went to the farm to pick up our fall food order.  The farm is offering potatoes, onions, tomatoes, squash and more for folks that want to stock up for the winter, lovely produce and a very reasonable cost. I got boxes for Josh, Ashley and me.  Ted sent along the most beautiful bright orange Cinderella pumpkin, lovely to look at, tasty to eat, for Amy.  That is the best connection ever, sharing our best with each other. For more information on the Youth Farm and their produce check out the Food for Lane County web site www.foodforlanecounty.org or call 343-2822.

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