Produced by the marketing department of Oregon Home

While you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about cardboard moving boxes, try to remember your last move. Did you have to find, assemble and eventually get rid of piles of cardboard boxes? There’s a better way.

Every spring I look forward to buying tomato starts. Even though my yard suffers from neglect rooted in lawn hate (I just can’t bring myself to care for a lawn I plan to remove one glorious day), I love my raised garden beds. I can’t remember the last year I didn’t grow tomatoes. Even when I rented a duplex, I’d plant beefsteaks in containers and hope for the best.

The Portland home of Voodoo Doughnut co-founder Tres Shannon is chockablock with visual deliciousness.

How to throw a birthday party to please kids and adults.

Wendy Burden is a confirmed New Yorker who lives in Portland’s West Hills.

I decided that “turning point” was an appropriate label for this issue, one that straddles wintry February and March, the wild first month of spring.

A place to render a wild world full of wonder and magic.

Diana Abu-Jaber on home.

My relatives in Florida think I’m nuts, and they’re right. I am crazy for winter in Oregon. I love stoking the fireplace while sipping something warm and reading under the comforter. A snowfall always is most welcome. Yes, I spend more time indoors when it is cold, but my Florida family does the same during their brutal summers.

The guitarist composes a perfect music man cave.