BLOOM AND GROW

Visit colorful flower farms in Mt. Hood Territory in spring for the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival and fall for fields of dahlias. Taste Oregon through its freshly picked blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Discover the color and variety of heirloom vegetables, lavender, and herbs at over 40 farms. Do it yourself at U-pick and U-cut farms. At the plant nurseries and garden centers stock up on hanging baskets, annuals, native and wetland plants, wildflowers, and a wide array of trees and shrubs.

Oregon farm and garden tours offer a little something for everyone and are great places to go with families. Go on a hayride, hop aboard the rail road that takes you through the farm. Meet farm animals including alpacas, llamas and miniature donkeys. Relax in The Territory’s gardens or bring your curiosity to the Hopkins Demonstration Forest.

Learn how Oregon farmers grow sustainably or what it was like to be a farmer in the pioneer days at Philip Foster Farm. Try your hand at cooking with a class at Our Table Cooperative Farm or the Kitchen at Middleground Farms.

TRIP IDEAS

Fox 12 visits Red Pig Garden Tools

We recently did a live video at Boring, OR-based Red Pig Garden Tools. The experience was so much fun that we thought even more people needed to see it. So we told Joe V. from Fox 12 Oregon about thi...

Bob Denman grinds a new tool at Red Pig Tools in Boring, OR

More flower events now that the tulip festival is done

If you're anything like us, the the end of the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival kinda feels like the day after Christmas as a kid. But like a kid who's birthday is only a month or so after Christmas, we do...

pink dahlia and bee oregon's mount hood territory

Making shoes at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival

We always talk about how gorgeous the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival is, and for good reason. It's amazing! Acres and acres of tulips of every known variety. But the amazing thing about the festival...

Closeup of red tulip and bud with blurred red tulips in background in Wooden Shoe tulip field

Adventuring with Friends in Mt. Hood Territory

Grab your friends and paddle, yoga or hike your way through Mt. Hood Territory while still leaving time for some delicious craft beverages. So that takes it from a trifecta to a superfecta, right? Wh...

Six helmeted whitewater rafters and their guide lift their paddles as their blue raft floats through the river's ripples.

Tulip Festival Signals Spring

The Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival signals the arrival of spring in Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory. I know because my news feed fills up with gorgeous photos of friends and family in front of tulips, tracto...

Field of multicolor tulips with blue & white windmill against an approaching storm dark sky at Wood Shoe Tulip Festival

Tulip Or Not Tulip, That Is The Question

2018 Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival Dates: March 23 - May 6 If tulip is the question, then the annual Wooden Shoe Tulip Fest in Woodburn, Oregon is the answer. Gather your friends and family and grab your...

Close-up circular photo of pink, yellow and red tulips at Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn.

Hello Dahlias!

August is an exciting time in Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory, as the fields erupt in a sea of color at Canby's Swan Island Dahlias. Swan Island Dahlias is celebrating their 90th year in business...

Two magenta dahlia blooms at Swan Island Dahlias in Canby.

Out in the Garden Nursery - rare plants and fun animals in Molalla

What do you get when you cross rare ornamental plants with friendly goats? No, it's not the worst lead in for a joke ever, but the premise behind Out in the Garden Nursery in the country town of Mola...

Manicured lawn walkway through show flower garden at Out in the Garden Nursery with inviting table to have a picnic lunch.

2017 dahlia festival primed to amaze

Mt. Hood Territory is home to the largest display of dahlias put on by one grower in the entire country, and that event is coming up fast. You could say Swan Island Dahlias in Canby is kind of a big...

Circular close-up photo of Checkers, a red with white tips dahlia bloom, one of the thousands found at Swan Island Dahlias.

A world in bloom at Rogerson Clematis Garden

Photo courtesy RogersonClematisCollection.org Imagine a beautiful garden, filled with numerous types of blooming clematis. Or, better yet, just go to the Rogerson Clematis Garden in West Linn, and exp...

Single dark purple clematis bloom at the Rogerson Clematis Garden at Luscher Farm in Lake Oswego.