Artisan Showcase
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A R T I S T S , M A K E R S , B U I L D E R S , C R E AT O R S , CRAFTERS, DREAMERS, DESIGNERS, INVENTORS
Finding flavor in locally raised meat
Proud to be the B E S T !
HoneySmoked Steelhead & Honey-Smoked Steelhead Spread
Mouthwatering, moist, and no bones!
Gourmet Baskets & Boxes... Loaded with your favorite Dan’s Honey-Smoked Steelhead treats and local artisan goodies.
Available locally in Bend, Sisters, and Black Butte Ranch or order online at
www.danssmokedsalmon.com — 970-623-5804 —
Honey-smoked steelhead a hit Down the road in Tumalo, in a fivestar cedar-log smoking facility, Dan Rasmussen is producing honey-smoked steelhead that is as close to perfect as it gets. This is truly artisanal honey-smoked steelhead, produced in small batches using pure honey, with every aspect of the process from brining to smoking to packaging handled with personal care on-site. “We don’t do any more than 100 pounds at any smoking,” Rasmussen told The Nugget. “That’s so we get perfection instead of doing 5,000 pounds at a time.” There are no bones. Dan’s HoneySmoked Steelhead is also particularly famous for steelhead spread. Gift baskets include fresh nuts roasted to perfection. Dan’s facility on his 10-acre property in Tumalo is top-notch. “Cleanliness is the most important thing to us,” he said. Dan’s Honey-Smoked Steelhead products are available in Sisters at Oliver Lemon’s and Ray’s Food Place, and on Sundays at Sisters Farmers Market. Their online store at www.danssmokedsalmon. com offers steelhead as well as gourmet gift baskets.
Evan and Amanda Moran found their way to providing high-quality, delicious beef and pork pretty much by accident. Raising livestock with some friends, he decided to feed them on the byproducts of Central Oregon’s thriving brewing and distilling industries. “When I first started, it was just about not wasting all the byproduct and such,” he recalled. “Turned out that I enjoyed doing it — and it tasted pretty good.” Pretty good is a bit of an understatement. Pioneer Ranch has developed a reputation for delicious sweet-tasting pork and savory beef – all influenced by what and how they’re fed. “Different types of products are complementary with different meats,” Moran said. Brewers’ spent grain and yeasts provide a healthy, well-rounded diet that results in great flavor. The distiller’s spent grains provide the sugar backbone, which creates greater marbling and tenderness in Pioneer Ranch meat. The store is located just a few minutes drive east of Sisters in Tumalo, where you’ll find a full stock of Oregon-grown products. Delivery is available.
LOCALLY RAISED, NATURALLY CRAFTED
BEEF & PORK • Pasture-raised, hand-cut •N o hormones, GMOs, or antibiotics •F ed byproducts from local breweries and whiskey distillers enhancing flavor •G reater marbling, superior tenderness
Butcher boxes • Oregon coast seafood
Order at www.pioneerranch.com FREE DELIVERY on orders of $100+ to Sisters when you mention this ad
Or visit our store in Tumalo 64702 Cook Ave. 559-681-1310
Think of your yard as a painting! Currently producing custom fused-glass totems in all sizes for your yard landscaping.
Piece shown is four-feet tall.
Each piece is handmade and weather tolerant. Contact Z Glass Act through Hood Avenue Art or at her studio, 281 Sun Ranch Dr., Sisters, Oregon
541-556-9068
Creating functional art from glass Susie Zeitner has created a thriving business called Z Glass Act and built a fine reputation as a glass artist, firing kiln glass in her home studio in Sisters. “Lighting is kind of the anchor part of my business, but in the last year-and-ahalf, I’ve done lawn art,” she said. The lawn art has proven desirable to clients. This summer, she’s partnering with Stitchin’ Post to impart the joy of creating glass lawn art to all sorts of folks. She provides the cut glass and the students provide the enthusiasm — no particular experience or aptitude is required. Those in “Making Memories” classes (conducted in COVID-safe conditions) go home with a mosaic glass piece to ornament their yard — pieces Zeitner calls “totems.” “They walk away having made something very successful themselves,” she said. “Glass has an energy — it literally is made of minerals, and minerals have a certain energy. And it has, for thousands of years, been kind of seductive for people.”
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Oregon Artisan Showcase Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A R T I S T S , M A K E R S , B U I L D E R S , C R E AT O R S , C R A F T E R S , D R E A M E R S , D E S I G N E R S , I N V E N T O R S
400 Acres of Hazelnuts... OREGON GROWN TREE-TO-TABLE
At Hazelnut Hill outside Eugene, from raw to roasted to seasoned, from brittles to buttery spreads and mixes, our hazelnuts are harvested and packaged for freshness. When hand-dipped in high-quality chocolate, our hazelnuts become luscious toffee, brittle, and truffle treats for yourself or as a gift for someone you love. Eat your fill...we’ll grow more! Order online at www.hazelnuthill.com 541-510-4464
The art and craft of hazelnuts Rachel and Ryan Henderson are on a mission to make Oregon hazelnuts readily available for local folks — as one of the few tree-to-table hazelnut producers in the U.S. Their farm, Hazelnut Hill near Eugene, is where the Hendersons craft truly artisanal hazelnut specialty products from roasted nuts to hazelnut-and-chocolate confections. Each order is roasted on demand, and candy is handmade in a commercialgrade kitchen. Rachel tests and develops all recipes, and she’s recently created new hot-and-spicy nut flavors and new flavors of toffee. The tree-to-table approach provides Hazelnut Hill customers with highquality, delicious nut-based products with a full chain of control that assures source and sustainability. “I think it’s important to know where our food comes from, who’s growing it, and how it grows,” Rachel said. The hazelnut is Oregon’s state nut — but, as Rachel points out, most of the product available here is — strangely enough — grown in Turkey. By enjoying Hazelnut Hill’s products, you are supporting a family farm operation with wholesome and sustainable practices.
Adding Caribbean spice to life
Zoe Ditmore has built a business and a way of life around bringing the flavors of the Caribbean to Central Oregon. “I grew up in Barbados,” she told The Nugget. “So my childhood memories were eating spicy food.” Moving to Bend in 2003, “one of the things that I noticed was that there was an absence of Caribbean cuisine.” Ditmore moved to fill that void with The Jerk Kings — a food truck operation serving Central Oregon. The trucks featured Jamaican-style jerk dishes on a Caribbean-themed menu, which grew to be popular. Their marinade and sauce were key components of the flavor. Now local folks can create such Caribbean-themed dishes at home — because The Jerk Kings buttoned up their food trucks and turned to producing and bottling hand-crafted, artisanal Jerk Marinade and Jerk Sauce. “These recipes were honed over a fiveyear period and they’re very unique to The Jerk Kings,” Ditmore said. “The feedback has been tremendous.” Jerk Marinade and Jerk Sauce will soon be available in retail locations in Sisters. Order online at www.thejerkkings.com.
Here’s to Warm Nights & Spicy Dishes!
Bring a little authentic Caribbean jerk into your kitchen today! For recipes, retail locations in Bend & Redmond, or to purchase online www.thejerkkings.com
541-771-5403
A little bit of everything at Sisters Farmers Market
HIGH DESERT STAINED GLASS
20 Years Designing & Installing Custom Stained Glass & Beveled Glass Masterpieces for Your Home or Business
541-213-2346
Monday-Saturday By Appointment — Brad Logan — highdesertstainedglass@gmail.com www.highdesertstainedglass.com
An ancient art form thrives in Central Oregon Stained glass is an ancient and revered art form in Western civilization. In the Middle Ages, it added beauty, light, and majesty to medieval cathedrals. Artisans today bring that beauty into peoples’ homes, with windows, door panels, and imaginative installations. Working with glass is a nearly lifelong passion for Brad Logan, who started working in stained glass in the 1980s. Logan, who has a day job as the operations manager at Bend Broadband, has turned his passion for this venerable art form into a creative artisanal business, High Desert Stained Glass. Logan perfected his craft in a stained glass studio in southern California through the 1980s, before shifting into a career in telecommunications. Moving to Bend in 2012, he has created glass for homes in Central Oregon and is working to move back fully into the creative field. “Stained glass is what I would like to do for the remaining part of my career,” Logan told Bend Magazine last year. “I want to get back to what’s comfortable and what I’m passionate about.”
Nothing showcases the artisanal creations of the Sisters community more thoroughly than Sisters Farmers Market. As Caroline Hager, manager, notes, “You can leave the market with an entire meal and things to serve it on and a beverage to have after, and art to hang…” The market specializes in locally grown produce and other locally produced wares from pottery to skin-care products — and the range is wide and eclectic. “We have a little bit of everything this year, which I think makes it really unique,” Hager said. “No two vendors are the same. Even our produce vendors have different things. There’s a lot of diversity in the vendors.” The Sunday-afternoon market is set up in a COVID-19-safe manner, and offers online ordering and curbside service for those who desire it. The Sisters Farmers Market is a way for local people to support local artisans and the local economy in a time when that is more valuable and important than ever.
20 YEARS OF OREGON ARTISTRY...
CRAFTING FINE CUSTOM STEEL-STRING ACOUSTIC GUITARS
“Urlacher Guitars are easily the finest and best-sounding acoustic instruments I have ever played. Rebecca has a gift for selecting the perfect tonewoods, and her guitars are capable of producing unbelievably deep, rich, resonant and complex sounds. The custom parlor guitar she built for me is tonally and visually stunning, plays flawlessly, turns heads at every show and is an endless source of inspiration for me as a performing artist.” — Adam Sweeney
Hand-crafted guitars make beautiful sound With a deep love of music, a background in the arts, and an appreciation for beautiful wood, Rebecca Urlacher was drawn to craft handmade steel-string guitars — though she’s not herself a musician. “Coming from the angle of an artist, I love having endless wood choices and combinations to build with,” she said. The process begins with selecting woods that will contribute to producing a desired tone. “Among my favorite tonewoods to work with are various rosewoods, ebonies, and koa.” Urlacher focuses on quality custom builds, rather than producing a large number of guitars. She builds multiple body styles while specializing in small-bodied fingerstyle guitars that sparkle and shimmer on the high end and whose aesthetics take the breath away. The artisan’s guitars may be seen by appointment. Guitar making is a life’s passion for the artisan, who said, “I’m continually inspired by the craft, the instruments, and the music they make.”
The art of quality service
Sisters Meat and Smokehouse comes out of a deep three-generation tradition of serving up craft meats. In fact, many of the practices they use today come out of that family tradition. Their legendary jerky, pepperoni sticks, and deli meats are all crafted in-house, and their lamb and elk are locally raised. “People like good quality, pure foods here,” says Sisters Meat and Smokehouse Founder Jeff Johnson. The actual product is not the only thing that gets personal, hands-on attention. Customer service is an art — and an ethic — at Sisters Meat and Smokehouse. “Our success depends 100 percent on the locals,” Johnson said. He expressed the Smokehouse’s appreciation for their support in challenging times. The Smokehouse worked hard to get ahead of coronavirus-related supplychain interruptions and the community was patient and supportive. That relationship of trust and support means a lot. Being integrally tied to the Sisters community is everything to Sisters Smokehouse, as Johnson notes: “We are a Sisters-based company. The people who buy our product, we run into every day.”
OUR 4TH ANNIVERSARY... THIRD-GENERATION ARTISAN MEAT EXPERTS
HAND-CUT BEEF, PORK & POULTRY House Smoked: Summer Sausage, Jerky, Pepperoni, Turkey & Ham, Cold Smoked Cheeses Alaskan line-caught seafood & locally raised lamb & elk Grilling sauces, seasonings & condiments
EATERY • DRINKERY
Restaurant & to-go Sandwiches & sides made in-house Family owned, staffed & operated
541-719-1186
110 S. Spruce St., Sisters Open 9-6 Every Day
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Oregon Artisan Showcase Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A R T I S T S , M A K E R S , B U I L D E R S , C R E AT O R S , C R A F T E R S , D R E A M E R S , D E S I G N E R S , I N V E N T O R S
400 Acres of Hazelnuts... OREGON GROWN TREE-TO-TABLE
At Hazelnut Hill outside Eugene, from raw to roasted to seasoned, from brittles to buttery spreads and mixes, our hazelnuts are harvested and packaged for freshness. When hand-dipped in high-quality chocolate, our hazelnuts become luscious toffee, brittle, and truffle treats for yourself or as a gift for someone you love. Eat your fill...we’ll grow more! Order online at www.hazelnuthill.com 541-510-4464
The art and craft of hazelnuts Rachel and Ryan Henderson are on a mission to make Oregon hazelnuts readily available for local folks — as one of the few tree-to-table hazelnut producers in the U.S. Their farm, Hazelnut Hill near Eugene, is where the Hendersons craft truly artisanal hazelnut specialty products from roasted nuts to hazelnut-and-chocolate confections. Each order is roasted on demand, and candy is handmade in a commercialgrade kitchen. Rachel tests and develops all recipes, and she’s recently created new hot-and-spicy nut flavors and new flavors of toffee. The tree-to-table approach provides Hazelnut Hill customers with highquality, delicious nut-based products with a full chain of control that assures source and sustainability. “I think it’s important to know where our food comes from, who’s growing it, and how it grows,” Rachel said. The hazelnut is Oregon’s state nut — but, as Rachel points out, most of the product available here is — strangely enough — grown in Turkey. By enjoying Hazelnut Hill’s products, you are supporting a family farm operation with wholesome and sustainable practices.
Adding Caribbean spice to life
Zoe Ditmore has built a business and a way of life around bringing the flavors of the Caribbean to Central Oregon. “I grew up in Barbados,” she told The Nugget. “So my childhood memories were eating spicy food.” Moving to Bend in 2003, “one of the things that I noticed was that there was an absence of Caribbean cuisine.” Ditmore moved to fill that void with The Jerk Kings — a food truck operation serving Central Oregon. The trucks featured Jamaican-style jerk dishes on a Caribbean-themed menu, which grew to be popular. Their marinade and sauce were key components of the flavor. Now local folks can create such Caribbean-themed dishes at home — because The Jerk Kings buttoned up their food trucks and turned to producing and bottling hand-crafted, artisanal Jerk Marinade and Jerk Sauce. “These recipes were honed over a fiveyear period and they’re very unique to The Jerk Kings,” Ditmore said. “The feedback has been tremendous.” Jerk Marinade and Jerk Sauce will soon be available in retail locations in Sisters. Order online at www.thejerkkings.com.
Here’s to Warm Nights & Spicy Dishes!
Bring a little authentic Caribbean jerk into your kitchen today! For recipes, retail locations in Bend & Redmond, or to purchase online www.thejerkkings.com
541-771-5403
A little bit of everything at Sisters Farmers Market
HIGH DESERT STAINED GLASS
20 Years Designing & Installing Custom Stained Glass & Beveled Glass Masterpieces for Your Home or Business
541-213-2346
Monday-Saturday By Appointment — Brad Logan — highdesertstainedglass@gmail.com www.highdesertstainedglass.com
An ancient art form thrives in Central Oregon Stained glass is an ancient and revered art form in Western civilization. In the Middle Ages, it added beauty, light, and majesty to medieval cathedrals. Artisans today bring that beauty into peoples’ homes, with windows, door panels, and imaginative installations. Working with glass is a nearly lifelong passion for Brad Logan, who started working in stained glass in the 1980s. Logan, who has a day job as the operations manager at Bend Broadband, has turned his passion for this venerable art form into a creative artisanal business, High Desert Stained Glass. Logan perfected his craft in a stained glass studio in southern California through the 1980s, before shifting into a career in telecommunications. Moving to Bend in 2012, he has created glass for homes in Central Oregon and is working to move back fully into the creative field. “Stained glass is what I would like to do for the remaining part of my career,” Logan told Bend Magazine last year. “I want to get back to what’s comfortable and what I’m passionate about.”
Nothing showcases the artisanal creations of the Sisters community more thoroughly than Sisters Farmers Market. As Caroline Hager, manager, notes, “You can leave the market with an entire meal and things to serve it on and a beverage to have after, and art to hang…” The market specializes in locally grown produce and other locally produced wares from pottery to skin-care products — and the range is wide and eclectic. “We have a little bit of everything this year, which I think makes it really unique,” Hager said. “No two vendors are the same. Even our produce vendors have different things. There’s a lot of diversity in the vendors.” The Sunday-afternoon market is set up in a COVID-19-safe manner, and offers online ordering and curbside service for those who desire it. The Sisters Farmers Market is a way for local people to support local artisans and the local economy in a time when that is more valuable and important than ever.
20 YEARS OF OREGON ARTISTRY...
CRAFTING FINE CUSTOM STEEL-STRING ACOUSTIC GUITARS
“Urlacher Guitars are easily the finest and best-sounding acoustic instruments I have ever played. Rebecca has a gift for selecting the perfect tonewoods, and her guitars are capable of producing unbelievably deep, rich, resonant and complex sounds. The custom parlor guitar she built for me is tonally and visually stunning, plays flawlessly, turns heads at every show and is an endless source of inspiration for me as a performing artist.” — Adam Sweeney
Hand-crafted guitars make beautiful sound With a deep love of music, a background in the arts, and an appreciation for beautiful wood, Rebecca Urlacher was drawn to craft handmade steel-string guitars — though she’s not herself a musician. “Coming from the angle of an artist, I love having endless wood choices and combinations to build with,” she said. The process begins with selecting woods that will contribute to producing a desired tone. “Among my favorite tonewoods to work with are various rosewoods, ebonies, and koa.” Urlacher focuses on quality custom builds, rather than producing a large number of guitars. She builds multiple body styles while specializing in small-bodied fingerstyle guitars that sparkle and shimmer on the high end and whose aesthetics take the breath away. The artisan’s guitars may be seen by appointment. Guitar making is a life’s passion for the artisan, who said, “I’m continually inspired by the craft, the instruments, and the music they make.”
The art of quality service
Sisters Meat and Smokehouse comes out of a deep three-generation tradition of serving up craft meats. In fact, many of the practices they use today come out of that family tradition. Their legendary jerky, pepperoni sticks, and deli meats are all crafted in-house, and their lamb and elk are locally raised. “People like good quality, pure foods here,” says Sisters Meat and Smokehouse Founder Jeff Johnson. The actual product is not the only thing that gets personal, hands-on attention. Customer service is an art — and an ethic — at Sisters Meat and Smokehouse. “Our success depends 100 percent on the locals,” Johnson said. He expressed the Smokehouse’s appreciation for their support in challenging times. The Smokehouse worked hard to get ahead of coronavirus-related supplychain interruptions and the community was patient and supportive. That relationship of trust and support means a lot. Being integrally tied to the Sisters community is everything to Sisters Smokehouse, as Johnson notes: “We are a Sisters-based company. The people who buy our product, we run into every day.”
OUR 4TH ANNIVERSARY... THIRD-GENERATION ARTISAN MEAT EXPERTS
HAND-CUT BEEF, PORK & POULTRY House Smoked: Summer Sausage, Jerky, Pepperoni, Turkey & Ham, Cold Smoked Cheeses Alaskan line-caught seafood & locally raised lamb & elk Grilling sauces, seasonings & condiments
EATERY • DRINKERY
Restaurant & to-go Sandwiches & sides made in-house Family owned, staffed & operated
541-719-1186
110 S. Spruce St., Sisters Open 9-6 Every Day
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A R T I S T S , M A K E R S , B U I L D E R S , C R E AT O R S , CRAFTERS, DREAMERS, DESIGNERS, INVENTORS
Sisters studio focuses on local artwork
Chris Nelson is an artist who is helping to build a community of artists at her Wildflower Studio in Sisters. An oil painter and ornament maker, known for her paintings of landscapes, songbirds, and flowers, she is also an expert framer. In that role, she enhances the work of all kinds of artists. That’s part of a way of life for Nelson in her working studio. “What I’ve tried to do is focus on local artwork,” she said. “There’s so many talented people here, so it’s fun to do and you become friends.” The sense of community built around the arts has never been more vital than it is right now. She notes that since the coronavirus pandemic struck, many people have contacted her just to check in and to offer support. Mutual support is critical. “If we’re shopping local and doing local things, we can support ourselves – and that’s pretty awesome,” she said. “Those things make a huge difference when you’re looking for a place to be. I know that’s what drew me here.”
Come Shop With Us! • Artisan Boutique • Leather Goods, Candles, Cards • Fiber Goods • Jewelry • Original Paintings • Prints •
• Custom Picture Framing • THANK YOU, WILDFLOWER CUSTOMERS!
Wildflower Studio Ar t B ou t ique & F raming
541-904-0673• 103-B E. Hood Ave., Sisters
wildflowerstudioartandframing.com
Vineyard is a hub of agritourism
Western Art • Jewelry • Rustic Lodge Furniture Native American Decor • Shed Antler Lighting Antler Dog Chews • Hides & Pelts
ONE-OF-A-KIND HANDCRAFTED ARTISAN GIFTS & HOME DECOR
311 E. Cascade Ave., Sisters facebook.com/antlerartsinc | 541-549-4251 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week
Turn your home into a Western lodge Each year, deer and elk shed their antlers naturally. Collectors, like local vendor Joey Wood, find them in forests and meadows and artisans turn them into works of functional art that grace homes across Sisters Country. Antler Arts carries the creations of those local artisans — chandeliers, tables, table lamps, cribbage boards. Just about anything you can conceive of can be made from the natural, renewable resource of shed antlers. “If you can think of it, we can do it with antler,” said Antler Arts co-owner Jim Warren. “We take custom orders and we don’t charge any extra for custom orders.” Jim and his wife, Jaimi, are passionate about the business that has become a destination for many people across the Northwest. They are always developing new product lines to help customers create the Western lodge aesthetic in their home. More juniper creations are on the way, to complement the antler creations that are a part of nature’s beautiful bounty.
Faith Hope and Charity Vineyard is helping to turn the Lower Bridge area northeast of Sisters into a hub for agritourism. It starts with a vineyard that produces cold-hardy Oregon grapes. “They are doing beautifully in Central Oregon and they are producing beautiful wines from our estate vineyard here,” said Cindy Grossman, who owns and operates Faith Hope and Charity Vineyard. “We are so pleased with the quality. It pairs very nicely with our wood-fired pizza.” That pizza is fired in a custom outdoor oven, and features custom, hand-crafted sauces. On Thursday through Saturday nights, that wine and pizza can be enjoyed to the accompaniment of music performed by local artists, in an outdoor setting that is both beautiful and safe for the times. Visitors can tour the property on an electric-assist bicycle. The full experience makes for a celebration for a life connected to place. “We are so blessed to be where we are,” Grossman said. “It’s a pretty nice little product of true, local, artisan agritourism.”
Summer Weekend Evenings Enjoy our spectacular vineyard mountain views, award-winning wines, artisan wood-fired pizzas, and live music by Pacific Northwest bands. Thursday-Saturday by reservation; space is limited.
Come At Your Leisure...
Monday through Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. take a tour, stroll the grounds, enjoy a wine tasting & cheese/fruit board. Cheers!
www.faithhopeandcharityevents.com thhop p eand dch char harii tyeve 70450 NW Lower Valley Dr., Terrebonne 541-526-5075