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HOOD RIVER — Curious how to promote the health of your trees and prolong their life span? Come learn from OSU Extension Forester Glenn Ahrens at the Central Gorge Master Gardener’s Community Class, “Managing to Keep Trees Healthy.”

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HOOD RIVER — For generations, family farms in the Hood River Valley (HRV) have helped shape a unified sense of place, growing crops that define the region as an agricultural hub — world-renowned pears, apples, and cherries — while strengthening a tight-knit rural community.

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Free news: Come learn from OSU Extension Forester Glenn Ahrens at the Central Gorge Master Gardener's Community Class, "Managing to Keep Trees Healthy," on Saturday, March 7, 9 a.m. at the Hood River Valley Christian Church.

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HOOD RIVER — The fifth installment of Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place Season 16 will arrive at Columbia Center for the Arts on Feb. 18. Titled “Going Out on a Limb: Life on the Family Farms of Lisa Perry & Ricardo Galvez,” the evening will welcome Perry for a conversation rooted in the agricultural landscape and lived experience of a family farm in the Columbia River Gorge.

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According to the report, farmers’ markets brought $1.6 million to the local economy in 2025, with 75% of vendors owned or co-owned by women.