Monday, July 26, 2010

Linn County Fair, da Vinci Days, OSU Research Farm

Last weekend we went to the Linn County Fair and walked around for a bit. I had no idea what the latest fashion for sheep was, apparently it's speed suits!


I'll be honest, pigs kind of freak me out. Especially when they are this huge.


Saturday we headed over to the OSU Research Farm, they were having an open house. They had 4 or 5 stations with people at each stop to explain what kind of research they were doing. I didn't get a picture of the honey bee station, but we got to sit and pick a very smart bee expert's brain for a while. They had their hives surrounded in black mesh, so you could watch him open the hive up without suiting up.
Over 11 types of cherries to sample!


They are experimenting with growing cherries in tunnels, you can read more about it here. Annie is our neighbor, and we definitely got a few bags of these delicious cherries from her.


They also have this blueberry genebank - with over 100 varieties of blueberries. We were allowed to walk through and sample these too. Although most of them were very, very small.



Some photos from da Vinci Days on Saturday:






3 comments:

sarah said...

speed suits...LOL!

i didn't know the research farm had an open house! that's so cool - and 11 types of cherries? YUM. that article was cool - i'd like to be a cherry taste-tester :)

you two do cool stuff, erin!

Erin said...

Thanks Sarah! It sounds like they do this open house every year, you should mark your calendar!

Amber said...

I second the you two doing cool stuff comment. No wonder you haven't blogged. Bees, chickens and sheep oh my! I do hope aarron feels better!