Oak Song
My thirty-fifth farm was Oak Song outside of Eugene, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are June and her daughter Christina. They are originally from Southern California. Christina has always wanted to be a farmer. To prepare for that she studied resource management which had classes in farming, and she worked on farms for four years. […]
Weslie and Saul’s Vegan Garden
My thirty-fourth farm was Weslie and Saul’s Vegan Garden on Vashon Island, near Seattle. The Farm The farmers are Saul and Weslie. Saul is from New York and came to Seattle in 1977. He met Weslie at a food co-op in Seattle. Both of them are vegan. Saul has a business selling vegan supplements. Their […]
Maury Hill Farm
My thirty-third farm was Maury Hill Farm on Vashon Island, right next to my hometown of Seattle, Washington. The Farm The farmers are Holly and Harley. Harley grew up on a cattle ranch in South Dakota. His ancestors are Dutch and many Dutch immigrants settled in South Dakota, possibly because it’s flat and looks like […]
Gardenripe
My thirty-second farm was Gardenripe in Silverton, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are Bill and Janice Schiedler. The 137-acre property sits on a hillside in the Cascade foothills overlooking the Willamette Valley. Bill’s great-grandfather cleared the land in 1874 to start a farm. The property has been in the family for almost 150 years and […]
Terribly Happy
My thirty-first farm was Terribly Happy in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The Farm The farmers are Beth, whom I never met because she was off meeting her new grandchild, and Richard. Back in San Jose, Richard was a professor of geology and Beth taught middle school math and high school home economics. But they decided they […]