photo credit: Alison Holland Baby Peas and baby chicks as big as your hand. The month of love and...babies Something about that just does make sense, even if the timing is a bit off ;) We are at the tipping point. Calves are being born. Momma pigs are swelling up.
This month, the second month of the year, the month of love. We sit, legs dangling over the edge, looking up and out and over Central Oregon, our home, and reflect on why we grow vegetables and raise meats, why we farm. We do it for the love. The love of the
photo credit: Melissa Harmon January, a tale of two winters Wow, January started out so pleasant, really too pleasant, as we saw you all early in the month for your CSA pick up. There was no snow on the ground. We were all starting to get
It’s Official, the Summer Growing Season is Here! This time of the year is a surprisingly busy time for us. Between December and January we map out, count, and plan our next 12 months. What we are growing where? How many successions of which crops? How many rows of melons or summer squash? What
photo credit: Melissa Harmon Happy New Year, farm friends. Howdy ya'll! Sarahlee here, again..... writing the email on time. What do you think of that? Now you don't have to wonder if this is CSA week. It is!! It's the last day of 2023 and boy what an unseasonably gorgeous
The things we are grateful for in 2023 Our crew from last year Wow, what a winning year last year. In 2023 we started our own Apprentice Program and our first year’s Apprentices knocked our socks off. We feel very strongly about being a place that is integral in inspiring and training future farmers.
photo credit: Melissa Harmon Winter is here and so is the start of our CSA! Dang, and just like that it gets so cold that we can finally accept that winter is here. After almost an entire month living on borrowed time, just waiting for the temperatures to drop and the
The beauty of you all! photo credit: Melissa Harmon What a weekend we had! It was the perfect culmination to an incredible summer! Over the last 2 months we have been harvesting EVERYTHING we grew during the summer. From the last of the lettuce heads and chard
This week, our newsletter is written by Sarahlee Our head honcho, farmer with the plan, owner and vision master Where are you from? I've lived on the farm my entire life. Why Rainshadow? Because of the way this land gathers energy. It's magnetic. What do you hope to learn at the farm this season?
News from the Farm: Oh, wow, only two more CSAs left in our 2023 20-week Summer CSA. This will be the last week that we see our Meat Only CSA members and this will be the last meat pick up for our Meat & Veggie members. That means that next week is our last
