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CONTENTSThe Dig attracts both master gardeners and children Page 4

Bigs rewards for a small farm Page 6

Art rooted in the garden Page 8

The Dalles Home Improvement Page 11

Hood River Home Improvement Page 12

ON THE COVER:

Blayney Myers and her husband

of Quercus Farm in Underwood,

Wash. Photo by Chelsea Marr

Hemingway’s Havana home to get $900,000 in US improvements MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press

HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. foundation will ship nearly $900,000 worth of

supplies to Cuba to build a state-of-the-art facility to preserve Ernest

Hemingway’s books, letters and photos. It’s the first major export of

construction materials to Cuba since President Barack Obama loosened

the trade embargo on the island.

The Boston-based Finca Vigia Foundation has been trying for years

to help Cuba stop thousands of pages of documents from slowly

disintegrating in the baking heat and humidity at the home where the

American writer lived and worked outside Havana from 1939 to 1960.

Officials with Cuba’s National Cultural Heritage Council, which runs

the Finca Vigia, have been enthusiastic about building a conservation

laboratory but said they didn’t have the funds or supplies to do it.


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The DigBy Derek WileyThe Dalles Chronicle

attracts both master gardenersand children

Derek Wiley photo

But it was the Imagination Garden on Google’s property in The

Dalles that sold her.

“We were walking our dog and when I saw this garden and saw what

the master gardeners here were doing, I decided we were moving to

The Dalles,” O’Hern said. “It’s such a great community effort.

Wanting to move to the gorge area to be closerto family, Kathy O’Hern, a master gardener inMontana, looked at houses in Hood River,White Salmon and Lyle.


The garden itself says so much about the community. It says to me that a

community cares about its residents. That’s why we moved here.”

The garden was the brain child of master gardener Charlotte Link and

former head of the Google data center in The Dalles Ken Patchett.

Patchett offered the property to the Wasco County extension service as

long as it was used as a children’s educational garden.

An agreement was signed in 2008 and work began in 2009.

Grass was removed and a wall put up to protect children from the river.

The Dalles High School construction team built a shed for a classroom

and storage.

Google provides the water.

Now, the garden has 25 beds, which are all raised because there’s

not a lot of top soil due to it being river level. Since each bed is meant to

teach something, they are different heights or made of different materials

like traditional wood, cement block or boulders from the river.

“You can do raised beds just about anyway,” 4-H Youth Development

Faculty and County Leader Lynette Black said.

Growing in the beds is cabbage, tomatoes, green peppers, cilantro,

onions, herbs, alpine, lavender and corn.

To attract children, there’s a Little Red Hen, Jack and the Beanstalk,

Tales of Peter Rabbit and Winnie-the-Pooh garden. A library houses

books for each garden so parents can read the story and do activities

with their child.

The garden also has a demonstration on different ways to compost.

Since Black and O’Hern can’t be at the garden all of the time, they’ve

tried to make the lessons self-explanatory, posting signs and putting up

as much information per garden as possible.

For the third year, Coffee at The DIG will take place Saturday

mornings at 9 from June through August. Some of the topics in July

include growing garlic, picking vegetables and deer protection.

Two camps will also be held this summer: Art in the Garden, where

children will create garden art from recycled materials, produce and

flowering plants on July 1, and Harvest Camp, where children will learn

ways to use produce from the garden for fresh eating, simple ways to

process for later eating and using plants for artistic purposes on

August 26.

While the community is invited to come and visit, produce grown in

the garden is not intended for the public. Any crops that are not used by

the camps or other pre-planned activities are donated to the food bank.

4-H Youth Development Faculty and County Leader Lynette Black, left, and Kathy O’Hern, a master gardener from Montana, have spent a lot of time getting The Dalles Imagination Gardenready for the summer. Derek Wiley photo

BIG REWARDS for aSMALL FARM


Hers is a small, organic farm, located on steep terrain that makes

gardening by hand a necessity. She grows vegetables, berries, fruit,

flowers and plants on about three quarters of an acre.

“We don’t grow a lot of anything,” she said. “We’re not talking Hood

River Valley-scale agriculture.”

But she does grow enough to sell at the Gorge Grown Farmers’

Market, held every Thursday at Hood River Middle School from 4-7

p.m.: Winter and summer squash, potatoes, tomatoes, fava beans,

strawberries, figs, plums, raspberries, blackberries, cherries … and

the list goes on.

A landscape architect, Myers and her husband moved to

Underwood full time in 2009 after nearly a decade of commuting

between her native New Orleans and their Washington property.

“I didn’t know until I became a landscape architect that I was

interested in growing food,” she explained. “To grow my own potatoes

and tomatoes and eat them is wonderful … I’ve never had a tomato

that tasted as good as the ones I had here when we started growing

our own.”

Myers began gardening right away, even before coming to stay,

first with an herb garden, then with blueberries. Now, with hoop

houses, she’s able to grow produce regardless of the season.

For Blayney Myers, gardening is a thrillBy Trisha WalkerHood River News

Myers of Quercus Farm inUnderwood, Wash., believes in the power of gardening.

Beans from the garden of Blayney Myers. Photos by Chelsea Marr.


“Being able to use your garden year round is a neat trick,” she said.

“Growing food is a very specialized kind of gardening … it’s a steep

learning curve. Having been gardening my whole life, I can tell you that

growing food is harder than growing flowers.

“I know I have learned so much in the 14 years we’ve been here,”

Myers said. “I’ve been working on it pretty hard. The learning curve is

steep to grow an assortment of things.”

But the learning curve shouldn’t deter anyone from trying, she

said — the Gorge is blessed with numerous resources, such as the OSU

Extension Service (she can’t say enough good things about the Master

Gardeners program) and Gorge Grown Food Network, both of which are

at every Thursday market.

“They’re there to answer questions,” she said. “They can identify

plants, tell you what to do for your aphids — and if they don’t know,

they’ll look it up. For free. It’s a really good resource for beginners or

anybody. I ask them questions all the time.”

Another resource are the farmers selling at the market, for everything

from gardening tips to ideas on how to use the produce they grow and

sell.

“They’re experts — learn from them!” she said. “There are some

incredible farmers at the market.

“I learn something new every market — the creativity of farmers blows

my mind. I think it’s wonderful to see new things and learn about new

foods.”

For those without a lot of space for a garden, Myers suggests

incorporating fruit, vegetables and herbs into existing landscape.

“You can plant edible things in any landscape anywhere, and it always

made sense to me (to do so),” she said.

And for those looking for more of a challenge, she suggests adding

animals.

“When we came here, one of my greatest accomplishments was

learning how to raise chickens,” she said. “…Farmers always had

animals, and now I know why — if you’re going to be a farmer and

grow food, you need animals to complete the circle.”

“You can plant edible things in any landscape anywhere.”


Art rooted in the garden:Artist, and expert gardener too: Exhibit looks atFrida Kahlo’s love of nature, Mexican flora

Show explores Kahlo from new angle —

This 2015 photo provided by The New York Botanical Garden

shows cactuses, colors and textures of Frida Kahlo’s Mexico

on display at the “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life” exhibit at

The New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, N.Y. The show runs

through Nov. 1, 2015. AP Photo/Ivo M. Vermeulen

By Katherine RothAssociated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — In a sprawling, multi-

disciplinary show, The New York Botanical

Garden focuses on a long-overlooked side of

artist Frida Kahlo: her deep connection to

Mexico’s plants and flowers, and how they

inspired her art.

“Flora is a very important part of her

creativity,” said guest curator Adriana Zavala, a

specialist in Mexican art and director of Latino

Studies at Tufts University

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Even those who thought they knew everything about Kahlo, Zavala

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The exhibit, “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life,” includes 14 of Kahlo’s

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Azul (Blue House); plentiful photos from Kahlo’s life; and various Mexican

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A good place to begin is in the huge, glass Enid A. Haupt

Conservatory, where the focus is on the gardens of Casa Azul, where

Kahlo was born in 1907, lived for years with muralist Diego Rivera, and

died in 1954. Pathways are lined with sunflowers, marigolds, fuchsia,

palms, jacaranda, oleander, and numerous succulents and cacti, many of

which still grow at Casa Azul, now a museum.

The lush, indigo-blue walls of Kahlo’s home have been vividly

rendered, as has her garden’s Aztec-inspired pyramid, designed by

Rivera, who painted it dazzling rose, blue and yellow. Here, it holds an

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“When we learned about Kahlo as a truly sophisticated gardener,

who also happened to be a great artist and cultural icon, we were

blown away,” said Todd Forrest, the botanical garden’s vice president for

horticulture and living collections.

Over time, Kahlo transformed Casa Azul into an expression of her

deep connection to the natural world and to Mexico.

Her studio overlooked the garden, and the plants came to play an

important role in her art.

“As we studied Frida Kahlo through her plants, two important themes

emerged: those of duality and of hybridity,” Zavala said.

Both themes are illustrated in the 14 artworks on view at the garden’s

LuEsther T. Mertz Library art gallery. In Kahlo’s 1931 “Portrait of Luther

Burbank,” the horticulturalist, whose garden she and Rivera had visited,

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“Two Nudes in a Forest,” painted in 1939, shows a light-skinned

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Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird,” Kahlo, impassive

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tropical vegetation and animals, including a black monkey and cat,

surround her and appear to be on the verge of overtaking her.

In conjunction with the show, the garden is offering an array of

cultural offerings to celebrate the artist.

“Frida liked to have fun. She had a love of life. This project is a

celebration of Mexico,” said Zavala. “In addition to taking in Frida’s

paintings and Frida’s plants and what they meant to her, we hope people

stay to enjoy some food and music from Mexico.”

There are Mexican cocktails and food; cooking lessons; textile

demonstrations; music; an “Octavio Paz Poetry walk”; a native plant walk,

and even a Mexican-themed puppet theater and “Frida’s Kitchen” exhibit

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Wall texts throughout the show are in Spanish and English.


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