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 […]