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Approaching from the west, as those traveling from Portland often do, the journey along what is referred to as the Waterfall Corridor begins with a step back into history. Built more than a century ago, the Historic Columbia River Highway was planned as the first scenic roadway in the United States. This narrow ribbon of pavement was engineered specifically to showcase the Gorge’s vertical splendor, and stands today much as it did in the early 1900s.
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From Skagit soil to slice, your wheat bread may be more local than you think
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“Eat real food!”
It’s the perennial directive given by author Michael Pollan and nutritionists the world over. The meaning is simple yet profound: eating food provided to us by nature, grown in the ground instead of engineered in a laboratory. Whole ingredients that are entirely themselves. At the Organic Farm School (OFS) on Whidbey Island, they are growing real food as well as the future farmers our world so desperately needs. As an added bonus, they offer a public farm stand with an honor system, and farm stays in their refurbished ranch house.
