Our Story

We like getting out hands dirty. Our first house was a little thing with shoddy lawn and a dusty forlorn backyard. When we left it two years later it had thriving trees and flowers. Our second house was a challenge with it';s third of an acre size, limited water supply and topography. But eight years later the lawn was fertilized by a small movable coop, fresh flowers and herbs surrounded the house, and the rock hill became a habitat for small critters with daisies, poplars, rosemary, flax , sage, and ivy. We'd even tried our hand at container gardening to combat the late and early frosts of Central Oregon only to see the lettuce and tomatoes mowed down by the local deer. Had we stayed another year I planned to landscape with vegetables whether the neighbors liked it or not.

But what really started it all was a book. We love books and between the two of us we've amassed quite a library. But one book has really changed our lives. Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma to be precise. In it, Mr. Pollan traces the origin of four meals as he tries to get as close to the source of his dinner as possible. His section on introduced us to a second author and farmer, Joel Salatin. Mr. Salatin outlined in his several books, Pastured Poultry Profits, You can Farm, Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal, and Salad Bar Beef a new,yet old, way of farming. Both authors opened out eyes to modern food production. We had read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser but didn't know how to become active in make change in our food consumption and production. We knew we wanted to feed ourselves, but why stop there? Armed with fresh knowledge along with the supplemental readings or Allan Nation, Wendell Berry, Bill Mollison, Jim Gerrish and Andre Voisin, we started making a plan. All we needed was a farm. . . but that's another story.