Community Calendar

Join us in celebrating the local food, drinks, music, and aquaculture of our beautiful Humboldt Bay! Returning to the Plaza this year with a Kids Zone, Dancing, and the Contests: Oyster Calling, Shuck & Swallow, Best Oyster! See you there!

Garden Tourists may visit five private gardens in the Roseburg area within a 7.5 mile range. There will be musicians and artists in the gardens.

Southern Oregon’s first-ever Veg Fest will take place at Tikkun Olam Farm Sanctuary (TOFS) at 460 Hartley Road in Phoenix on Sunday, June 11, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Southern Oregon Veg Fest will host 30 vendors and offer live music, cooking demos, sanctuary tours, hay rides, a beer garden hosted by Portal Brewing Company, a raffle for a chance to win SO Veg Fest and TOFS merchandise, and a silent auction featuring animal paintings from Dana Feagin Art, a gift card for Medford’s RetroWormhole, and animal-themed books and gifts from Ashland Creek Press.

Vendors will be showcasing products including vegan foods, baked goods, kombucha, beauty products, jewelry, and animal-themed art, books, and photography. Also exhibiting are animal advocacy organizations, including FOTAS, and plant-based martial arts and medical practitioners.

The event is free and open to all. Sanctuary donations are welcome, and raffle tickets supporting the sanctuary are $3 for five tickets. Parking is available onsite.

Tikkun Olam Farm Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) organization in Phoenix, Oregon, that rescues abused, abandoned, neglected, and unwanted farm animals and provides them with a forever home.

The Humboldt Rose Society is holding its annual rose show on Sunday, June 11, 2023 at Redwood Acres, 3750 Harris St., Eureka, CA. Do you have a prize-winning rose? Enter it in the Humboldt Rose Society Rose Show. There is also a photo contest and the public is encouraged to enter either their roses or their photos of roses. Do you want to know which roses do best in Humboldt County? Come to the Rose Show and see which roses thrive in our coastal maritime climate or hot mountain climate. Submit roses for judging by 10 a.m. Don't know what type of rose you have? Experts will be present to help ID it. Never shown a rose before? The rosarians will help you display it. There are monetary prizes for all trophy and certificate winners.

There will be two presentations; one on hybridizing roses and another on soil health with live soil critters wiggling around. The show is open to the public from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to roses on display there is a plant sale with roses and rhodies and a raffle.

For questions about the group or the rose show: (707) 443-1284 or roseladygardener@yahoo.com Information about the Rose Society and roses is available at the Society's website, www.humboldtrose.org.

Porchfest is a free music festival taking place in Grants Pass on Saturday, June 17th from 11 am – 3 pm. 

This family-friendly, free, community-building event features local musicians performing a variety of music genres on the front porches of historic Grants Pass homes. Porchfest occurs in the NW Washington Boulevard/Manzanita Ave. area of town, with the participating streets closed to vehicle traffic.  

A variety of vendors makers, and food trucks will be present. All proceeds from Porchfest benefit local youth programs.

The Southern Oregon Lavender Trail Festivals occur annually over the course of two glorious weekends, one in June and one in July in the Applegate Valley. These weekends are scheduled during the height of lavender season when the fields are in their prime. The lavender is always the star and during the festivals you will find lavender plants, lavender products, and u-pick lavender at most of the destinations. In addition, you can expect to find extra events and activities at many of the farms. These may include food and beverage vendors, live music, lavender-related demonstrations and classes, and other vendor booths. Each farm offers different events and activities, so be sure to visit all of the lavender destinations to see what they have to offer! Most of the farms will announce festival line-ups on social media.
Don’t Miss the Lavender Gift Basket Raffle - we are raffling off a gift basket of lavender goodies from each of our farms to one lucky lavender lover!

The Southern Oregon Lavender Trail Festivals occur annually over the course of two glorious weekends, one in June and one in July in the Applegate Valley. These weekends are scheduled during the height of lavender season when the fields are in their prime. The lavender is always the star and during the festivals you will find lavender plants, lavender products, and u-pick lavender at most of the destinations. In addition, you can expect to find extra events and activities at many of the farms. These may include food and beverage vendors, live music, lavender-related demonstrations and classes, and other vendor booths. Each farm offers different events and activities, so be sure to visit all of the lavender destinations to see what they have to offer! Most of the farms will announce festival line-ups on social media.

The Southern Oregon Lavender Trail Festivals occur annually over the course of two glorious weekends, one in June and one in July in the Applegate Valley. These weekends are scheduled during the height of lavender season when the fields are in their prime. The lavender is always the star and during the festivals you will find lavender plants, lavender products, and u-pick lavender at most of the destinations. In addition, you can expect to find extra events and activities at many of the farms. These may include food and beverage vendors, live music, lavender-related demonstrations and classes, and other vendor booths. Each farm offers different events and activities, so be sure to visit all of the lavender destinations to see what they have to offer! Most of the farms will announce festival line-ups on social media.
Don’t Miss the Lavender Gift Basket Raffle - we are raffling off a gift basket of lavender goodies from each of our farms to one lucky lavender lover!

The Southern Oregon Lavender Trail Festivals occur annually over the course of two glorious weekends, one in June and one in July in the Applegate Valley. These weekends are scheduled during the height of lavender season when the fields are in their prime. The lavender is always the star and during the festivals you will find lavender plants, lavender products, and u-pick lavender at most of the destinations. In addition, you can expect to find extra events and activities at many of the farms. These may include food and beverage vendors, live music, lavender-related demonstrations and classes, and other vendor booths. Each farm offers different events and activities, so be sure to visit all of the lavender destinations to see what they have to offer! Most of the farms will announce festival line-ups on social media.

Free family friendly event celebrating the river that ties us all together. Live music. Fun and educational activities for kids all day including Craft Table by Illinois River Art Council. Giant Puppet Parade by Coyote Rising. Recycled Raft Race with Youth and Adult categories, race covers 125 yards along the west side of the park. Tolowa Dene demonstration on making traditional Soaproot Brushes. Yurok California Condor restoration project. Stream Table children's activity and more. At the Illinois River Forks State Park just south of Cave Junction. Arts & crafts and food vendors. This is a drug and alcohol free event co sponsored by Oregon State Parks.