Feeling like a “Real” Farmer!

Jason answered an ad last week from someone liquidating an estate that included lots of farming equipment.  Some of that equipment is small enough that the tractor we have access to can pull the tools!  And, we got it all for incredible prices!

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A two bottom plow (not that it will have a ton of uses) a set of discs, a feed trailer and lots of small bits and pieces essential to every farm.

Not only have we now made purchases of some “large” farm equipment, but we now have some items that are truly ours and not borrowed.

Both of us felt like we’d grown another notch.  Even more so after reassembling the discs and playing with them a bit.

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Finally! the hoophouses are up, covered and the first has it's endwalls on and the first plant starts adjusting.

It was quite the feat.  step one: get volunteers committed.  Step two, get volunteers re-committed to a new weekend that had less wind and luckily beautiful weather! Step three: get everyone present and on the same page.

Once everyone was here and in place, we tried waiting for a dead spot in the wind but if you're familiar with the palouse, dead spots in winds never come until the hottest day in August.  So we decided there would be enough of us and started hauling on the ropes to pull the plastic over the hoophouse.  Lots of adjusting and wiggle wire later, we had two brand new hoophouses.

Then it was time for lunch.  Pulled pork, baked beans, mashed potatoes and Challah bread with some of HM and A's dyed Easter eggs in the braid.  All home-made!

There's more pictures in our Facebook Album.  This album should be view-able even if you do not have a Facebook account.

 We'd like to thank profusely those folks kind enough to give up their Sunday morning to lend us a hand: Mom & Dad, Josey & Lindsey, Debi & Dave,  Eric & Betty, Devon, Alden, Brendan, Nate & friends, Lauren, Derek & Keri, Erin.  We could not have done it without all of you!

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Publicity and Press

We've been in our local paper but this year we're starting to attract the attention of some slightly larger entities.

The first would be WSU's CHANRS College.  They came to our farm and interviewed us in part to promote Organic Agriculture and the agriculture programs at WSU.

They also cut a second version that we may use in our own promotions.

(If you're having troubles, Click on one of the links below to go directly to You Tube to watch.)
From Education to Entrepreneurship
Omache Farm


We also recently heard of and checked out the movement known as The Greenhorns.
They can be found at www.TheGreenhorns.net

Severine and her traveling crew actually called us up and asked to come check out our farm.  Well of course! They visited on Thursday and came back on Friday to film footage for a new project of shorts about young farmers.  They also want to interview us in the future for their radio show!  Crazy exciting!  We'll definitely be bringing it up again when their new video project goes public.

In the mean time, enjoy our new videos and Pass it On!