I like the idea of being able to make/grow my own sweeteners. Honey is an obvious, easy place to turn but I’ve had such a difficult time getting my hives established – hopefully this year! As it turns out my land, while full of clay, grows great root crops. This year while thumbing through the […]
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Small Farms Conference
Mom and I headed out to Corvallis early Saturday morning to attend the 2016 Small Farms Conference at Oregon State University. It was our first time attending this conference and in fact, first farm related conference. It was great to be surrounded by something like 900 people involved in the small farming community! Between the […]
Meet Maya, Future Farmer
I am just an eleven year old girl. Exposed to the “Farm World”. Sort of a farmer. I have just been starting to get this farm thing down . Sort of. I am a winter baby, born January twenty ninth, 2005. I am in the fifth grade. I go to school in the town of […]
Seed Prices Revealed
It’s seed catalog time! I grow a garden to produce quality food for my family while spending less money. This year, I’m looking forward to growing a market garden. Being frugal is even more important now as the volume of seeds needed increases. I like to be an informed shopper and seed catalogs can be […]
It all starts with a plan
I’m a farmer. Being born in the end of March, I was practically born in a garden bed. I was born at home on our little homestead in Southern Oregon in 1976. My mom likes to tell the story of how my dad and his friend were out burning slash piles that day to clean […]