14 | EDIBLE PORTLAND SUMMER 2025 CULINARY BREEDING NETWORK EVENT CALENDAR Organic Grains and Pulses Field Day OSU Lewis-Brown Farm, Corvallis, OR Tuesday August 5, 3:30-7:00pm A chance to visit the OSU organic variety field trials and learn from the OSU Organic Agriculture Extension team about grains and pulses. Featured Crops will include: Grains: Barley, Wheat, Rye, Oats, Triticale, Kamut, Durum Pulses: various common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), lentils, chickpeas, favas, mung, adzuki, cowpea, tepary Snacks prepared by Nikki Guerrero (Hot Mama Salsa), Adrian Hale (1000 Bites of Bread), Jordyn Bunting (Food Innovation Center), Andrew Ross and Sydney Baumgardner (Oregon State University). Free and open to the public. Buckwheat Fest WSU Breadlab, Mt Vernon, WA Friday August 8 A tasting to kick off the More Bang for Your Buckwheat research project. Join us under tents outside the WSU Breadlab in Skagit Valley to enjoy an eclectic array of innovative buckwheat-based food products from amazing restaurants and bakeries such as Ben’s Bread, TOMO, Sarah Minnick, Sea Wolf, Café Lago, Magdalena's Creperie and many more! Tickets: buckwheatfest-tasting.bpt.me/ Kids under 5 are free of charge. Dry Farming Field Day Focus on perennial kale, collards, leafy greens, cucumber melons, and more. OSU Oak Creek Farm, Corvallis, OR Wednesday August 20, 5-7pm Join OSU Extension’s Lucas Nebert, faculty with the Organics Team and Dry Farming Program, for a hands-on look at variety trials featuring perennial kale, collards, leafy greens, cucumber melons, and more. The event will include taste testing, resource sharing, networking, and an open discussion about this season’s dry farming experiences. Free to the public. Tomato Fest Wellspent Market, Portland, OR Saturday September 13 // 12-4pm Dry Farming Field Day Focus on tomato, melon, corn, sorghum, cowpeas OSU Vegetable Farm, Corvallis, OR Tuesday September 16, 5-7pm OSU researchers will present on dry farming techniques and current projects, including efforts to manage blossom-end rot in tomatoes, a dry-farmed corn breeding initiative, and variety trials with sorghum, cowpeas, melons, and tomatoes. Following the presentations, attendees will have a chance to taste the results of these trials. Free to the public
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