This weekend we hosted our second farm potluck of the year, this time in conjunction with Slow Foods of Yamhill County. Unlike our earlier potluck this season, which was wide open to both farm members and market customers as well as our greater community of friends, this gathering brought in folks mostly from the Slow [...]
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What do we farmers do in january?
Posted in chickens, CSA, eggs, farming, frost, local food, seasonal eating, winter on January 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I know, I know…it is important to keep this thing updated, even in the quiet of winter, so here is some of what we are up to at the farm. *Starting the construction of our new chicken coop, the one that will find most of us (human, dog, cat, and pig) and farm members alike [...]
Posted in chickens, family, farm, farming, organic, permaculture on August 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week… We baked in the sun, but the veggies loved the heat and we could use some more of it to ripen some of those heat lovers out in the field! Relished the thunder, lightning, and rain that followed the heat and refreshed all of us, animal, vegetable, and human alike! Spent all of [...]
The change to our flock
Posted in chickens, farm, farming, nature, permaculture on June 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Farm News…After our failed experiment last year with raising laying hens without wheat, soy, or corn in their diets, after waiting a long ten months for these birds to begin laying eggs when a standard diet would have brought us the bounty of eggs in just six, after finally being able to offer Growing Wild [...]
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