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Sustainable Agriculture & Energy

(Only Tuesday)

The Day-Experience

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Boardman is located on 'Oregon’s Other Coastline' (the Columbia River) located 200 miles east of Portland … the surrounding area is an exciting economic region with sophisticated technologies in sustainable agriculture & energy, irrigation, tree-farming, biofuel, food processing, transportation, communications infrastructure servicing the global community, and more ...

Come explore the process of getting food from the farm to the table at the local SAGE (Sustainable Agriculture & Energy) Center in Boardman … Compare your skills with GPS technology to plant corn with their hands-on simulated tractor exhibit … Soar over Morrow County in their simulated hot-air balloon to see some of the best farmland in the country …

Come view the ‘sustainable closed-loop’ Threemile Canyon Farms … 25,000 dairy cows … the calf nursery ... 352 computerized crop circles … and dairy-manure-methane gas generating electricity … simply amazing ...

Visit both the Sno-Road Winery and Echo Ridge Winery vineyards and tasting rooms ...

The final stop is the McNary Lock & Dam completed in 1954 ... See the 14 hydroelectric generators that produce 6.5 billion kilowatt-hours each year for Northwest power users ... Each year, more than 7 million tons of cargo pass through the McNary Lock and Dam ... also watch salmon as they swim up the ladder in the Oregon Fish View Room ...

Included is 'private van' transportation and 'lunch & Tillamook ice-cream' after the morning SAGE Center visit ... also included are tasting fees at the Echo winery stops ...

Day experience departs the Three Rivers Convention Center parking location (7016 West Grandridge Blvd, Kennewick) near the Columbia Center Mall at 9:00am  and returns by 5pm ...

No Refunds, but all Day-Experiences can always be rescheduled, or transferred to another person ..