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Do you need an internship?
We offer internships for current students: Check it out on our Learning Opportunities page. All the details are in the flyer, also available here:
2016 Internship Flier
Our Internship structure is very fluid so that it may be fitted to the individual student's needs and goals. You may request a whole farm internship or a focused one on Vegetables or Livestock.
General schedule:
Vegetables: 1 harvest day (Mon/Tues or Friday), 1 Market day (Wed. or Sat.), and 1 general work day. Minimum 20 hours per week, unpaid. Hours beyond 20 will be paid but are not guaranteed.
Livestock: 1 Market day (Wed. or Sat.), 1-2 general work days. 16-20 hours per week, unpaid. Hours beyond 20 will be paid but may not be livestock related.
Whole Farm: Same as vegetable requirement.
To apply, we request that you send us an updated resume and cover letter detailing your goals and how you think our internship could contribute to attaining that goal.
Do you need employment?
We will be hiring part time laborers for vegetables and possibly for ad-hoc livestock fencing work from May through October.
To apply for employment opportunities send us your updated resume and cover letter. We want to know your employment needs and how you think employment with Omache Farm can further your goals.
Never written a resume or cover letter? WSU Students can head over to the Academic Success and Career center on campus for assistance. We are not as familiar with UI's resources but are certain they have something similar.
Requirements:
*Hours, especially harvest, will be early.
*You will need reliable transportation to our farm which is about 10 miles south of Pullman and just 11.7 miles from Beasley coliseum.
*You will be working daily with your hands and back. Must be able to routinely lift and carry 50 lbs
*NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED - be willing to learn!
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Friday, June 26, 2015
4th of July SALE!
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It's BBQ Time!
Whether you'll be smoking or straight up grilling dinner, if it's just you or you and twenty of your closest buddies, Omache Farm has the pork you'll need for your 4th of July Barbecue!
You can bet it'll be for the delicious pork loin chops you're grilling up! Who needs fireworks anyways?
This is a great chance to try out some chops on the grill with your family and friends! Stock up while they're on sale so you can try them with sage, with Paprika, with a ginger marinade, with a hot and spicy rub...
Drop by any of the Farmer's Markets between now and the 4th of July to pick up some chops for your dinner.
You may also email us to reserve an order for pickup: tell us approximately how much (packages/pounds, whatever you measure by) of each type of cut you'd like along with your best contact info and we'll set it aside, ready for you to pay at pickup at the market you specify.
This is a great chance to try out some chops on the grill with your family and friends! stock up while they're on sale so you can try them with sage, with Paprika, with a ginger marinade, with a hot and spicy rub...You can bet it'll be for the delicious pork loin chops you're grilling up!
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Baby Update
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As I hope you all know by now, Jason and I are expecting baby #3 this August. the 17th to be as exact as babies will be. It's a little boy this time and yes, his big sisters are extremely excited!
Yes, I have been out working hard all season and you can all relax now as I have been banned from lifting heavy things in the last few months and having been blessed with multiple employees and interns, have been able to keep myself doing the easiest of jobs.
I try not to do too much sheep chasing anymore. much.
And yes, you will all have the opportunity to see, meet and/or hold the little one very soon after he arrives! Depending on when exactly he decides to make his grand entrance to the world and assuming that everything goes well of course, he'll be coming with us to the first market that I feel up to attending.
Specifically for our CSA members and definitely for all of our regular customers, there will be some things affected, depending again on when exactly munchkin decides the time is to his liking.
CSA shares will take a break for a week or we may do some sort of alternative. Keep your eyes on your email as we'll likely be notifying you by that method as to what exactly our alternative plan of choice will be.
For our regular customers, We'll try to have our booth at all of the markets no matter what but if for some reason Omache Farm doesn't arrive to market, at least you can make a pretty good guess at what's going on!
So at just about 2 1/2 weeks to go to the due date of Aug 17th, we are excited and busy preparing, hot and of course very tired. Keep your eye out at the markets for news and on Facebook. All of you lovely people are at the very top of our list to hear about our new little bundle of joy's arrival!
As I hope you all know by now, Jason and I are expecting baby #3 this August. the 17th to be as exact as babies will be. It's a little boy this time and yes, his big sisters are extremely excited!
Yes, I have been out working hard all season and you can all relax now as I have been banned from lifting heavy things in the last few months and having been blessed with multiple employees and interns, have been able to keep myself doing the easiest of jobs.
I try not to do too much sheep chasing anymore. much.
And yes, you will all have the opportunity to see, meet and/or hold the little one very soon after he arrives! Depending on when exactly he decides to make his grand entrance to the world and assuming that everything goes well of course, he'll be coming with us to the first market that I feel up to attending.
Specifically for our CSA members and definitely for all of our regular customers, there will be some things affected, depending again on when exactly munchkin decides the time is to his liking.
CSA shares will take a break for a week or we may do some sort of alternative. Keep your eyes on your email as we'll likely be notifying you by that method as to what exactly our alternative plan of choice will be.
For our regular customers, We'll try to have our booth at all of the markets no matter what but if for some reason Omache Farm doesn't arrive to market, at least you can make a pretty good guess at what's going on!
So at just about 2 1/2 weeks to go to the due date of Aug 17th, we are excited and busy preparing, hot and of course very tired. Keep your eye out at the markets for news and on Facebook. All of you lovely people are at the very top of our list to hear about our new little bundle of joy's arrival!
July 23 Hail Storm
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So the newsletters simply haven't worked out as well this year as I was hoping they would. I'm sure all of you lovely folks will understand, given the circumstances.
That all being the case, this seems the perfect time to put several updates down on paper. Well, digital paper anyhow.
The biggest update is about the recent hail storm that passed through the area on Wednesday July 23. Hopefully most of you have had a chance to talk with Jason about it. He was getting our booth set up for the Wednesday market when it hit town and as our farm manager coordinated much of the acrobatics that ensued. There were several amazing folks that, upon hearing about yet another grand sheep escape that resulted from the hail storm, raced out to our farm to help put everyone back where they belonged.
The most challenging loss resulting from this storm is likely our pumpkins and winter squash. Being blessed with more acreage than many folks who grow veggies in the area, we were working on growing nearly an acre of pumpkins and another half acre of various winter squash varieties. The plants were very well established and while they have been growing back amazingly well the biggest question now is if they'll produce fully ripe fruits before the first frost. In just the last four seasons, we've seen first frosts come as early as mid September or as late as the end of October. Cross your fingers for luck for us!
All of our CSA members came down to the market to pick up their CSA shares that day (impressive given the nasty weather) and upon hearing of the total devastation of our outdoor crops completely understood when we told them that it meant a pretty sparse CSA share for the next month or more until we could get fresh crops planted and for the survivors (kale, chard, Zucchini) to grow back and start producing once again.
A huge thank you also goes out to Deep Roots Farm and Affinity Farm, both in Moscow. They have both donated a couple of different items to help us fill out our CSA shares this week. We cannot thank them enough!
Keep an eye on Facebook for photo updates. Jason is hoping to take some photos of the recovery every week (Wednesdays or so usually) so we can all be absolutely amazed at the progress and amazing resiliency of Mother Nature. Believe me when I say I have been most impressed at how well things have been growing back.
So the newsletters simply haven't worked out as well this year as I was hoping they would. I'm sure all of you lovely folks will understand, given the circumstances.
That all being the case, this seems the perfect time to put several updates down on paper. Well, digital paper anyhow.
The biggest update is about the recent hail storm that passed through the area on Wednesday July 23. Hopefully most of you have had a chance to talk with Jason about it. He was getting our booth set up for the Wednesday market when it hit town and as our farm manager coordinated much of the acrobatics that ensued. There were several amazing folks that, upon hearing about yet another grand sheep escape that resulted from the hail storm, raced out to our farm to help put everyone back where they belonged.
The most challenging loss resulting from this storm is likely our pumpkins and winter squash. Being blessed with more acreage than many folks who grow veggies in the area, we were working on growing nearly an acre of pumpkins and another half acre of various winter squash varieties. The plants were very well established and while they have been growing back amazingly well the biggest question now is if they'll produce fully ripe fruits before the first frost. In just the last four seasons, we've seen first frosts come as early as mid September or as late as the end of October. Cross your fingers for luck for us!
All of our CSA members came down to the market to pick up their CSA shares that day (impressive given the nasty weather) and upon hearing of the total devastation of our outdoor crops completely understood when we told them that it meant a pretty sparse CSA share for the next month or more until we could get fresh crops planted and for the survivors (kale, chard, Zucchini) to grow back and start producing once again.
A huge thank you also goes out to Deep Roots Farm and Affinity Farm, both in Moscow. They have both donated a couple of different items to help us fill out our CSA shares this week. We cannot thank them enough!
Keep an eye on Facebook for photo updates. Jason is hoping to take some photos of the recovery every week (Wednesdays or so usually) so we can all be absolutely amazed at the progress and amazing resiliency of Mother Nature. Believe me when I say I have been most impressed at how well things have been growing back.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Now Offering...
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From now through the first Thursday in May, Omache Farm is offering home delivery of our farm fresh products! Order right here, from our website and receive your order right at home!
We are fortunate enough this spring to have product to sell. Unfortunately, there aren't any markets already set up in the early spring before most vegetable growers have produce. We decided to trial another new program. Hopefully with your enthusiastic support and patronage, we'll find the time and effort worthwhile.
If this works out, we'll likely offer a very similar program over the course of next winter. Who knows what'll happen... perhaps someday there'll be coolers on lots of front stoops awaiting the Farmer, much like there were coolers awaiting the Milk Man...
Home Delivery!
We are fortunate enough this spring to have product to sell. Unfortunately, there aren't any markets already set up in the early spring before most vegetable growers have produce. We decided to trial another new program. Hopefully with your enthusiastic support and patronage, we'll find the time and effort worthwhile.
If this works out, we'll likely offer a very similar program over the course of next winter. Who knows what'll happen... perhaps someday there'll be coolers on lots of front stoops awaiting the Farmer, much like there were coolers awaiting the Milk Man...
How it Works:
Friday, February 21, 2014
NOW it's spring on the palouse
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There are two things on our farm on the palouse that signify spring is here. The first is the winds. They are always blowing... hard. they usually start in mid February and blow most of the way through March. The upside is that it starts being sunnier here when all the clouds get blown right past you. This morning dawned partly cloudy and surprisingly only mildly windy. Today was the first day that the sun peeked above the hills before HannaMae's bus arrived.
The second thing that signifies spring on the palouse is restless sheep.
Makes sense, right? No more snow covering the ground and things are starting to warm up and grow fresh green grass. WAAAAAY better than all that dusty dry straw they've been eating all winter. Grass, oat or alfalfa, it doesn't matter how much they've been spoiled or not because the fresh green stuff is always better than any type of hay.
The ramboulliets apparently just whine. Baa, Baa, Baa.
The Jacobs are too smart for that. They have learned that sometimes the people hide the good grass outside the fences. ometimes next to the red barn, sometimes over past the gardens. Sometimes the people even hide the grass up the road by Betty's house. The Jacobs have also learned that barbed wire, especially ancient falling down fence, doesn't hurt. Those fences are really more of a suggestion than a rule.
The main reason those fences never have been fixed is because they are on the border with a grain field which happens to be uphill. Those particular neighbors are better than others about plowing more soil downhill on top of the fence but there's still a nice cliff between the edge of their field and the old fence. We are working with our landlord to be allowed to build a new fence for that section on top of the field. We just only have room for so many projects each year.
That all aside, the Jacobs or rather a few particular escape artists, have figured out the easiest sections to climb through. The easiest fix? grab one of our small panel sections, climb the pasture hillside, attach the panel section over the wooly area of fence.
The hard part is to then go find the adventuresome sheep and convince them they need to go home. The first part of spring is easy: there isn't really much grass to argue over. Give it a few weeks and the sheep probably won't believe me anymore...
There are two things on our farm on the palouse that signify spring is here. The first is the winds. They are always blowing... hard. they usually start in mid February and blow most of the way through March. The upside is that it starts being sunnier here when all the clouds get blown right past you. This morning dawned partly cloudy and surprisingly only mildly windy. Today was the first day that the sun peeked above the hills before HannaMae's bus arrived.
The second thing that signifies spring on the palouse is restless sheep.
Makes sense, right? No more snow covering the ground and things are starting to warm up and grow fresh green grass. WAAAAAY better than all that dusty dry straw they've been eating all winter. Grass, oat or alfalfa, it doesn't matter how much they've been spoiled or not because the fresh green stuff is always better than any type of hay.
The ramboulliets apparently just whine. Baa, Baa, Baa.
The Jacobs are too smart for that. They have learned that sometimes the people hide the good grass outside the fences. ometimes next to the red barn, sometimes over past the gardens. Sometimes the people even hide the grass up the road by Betty's house. The Jacobs have also learned that barbed wire, especially ancient falling down fence, doesn't hurt. Those fences are really more of a suggestion than a rule.
The main reason those fences never have been fixed is because they are on the border with a grain field which happens to be uphill. Those particular neighbors are better than others about plowing more soil downhill on top of the fence but there's still a nice cliff between the edge of their field and the old fence. We are working with our landlord to be allowed to build a new fence for that section on top of the field. We just only have room for so many projects each year.
That all aside, the Jacobs or rather a few particular escape artists, have figured out the easiest sections to climb through. The easiest fix? grab one of our small panel sections, climb the pasture hillside, attach the panel section over the wooly area of fence.
The hard part is to then go find the adventuresome sheep and convince them they need to go home. The first part of spring is easy: there isn't really much grass to argue over. Give it a few weeks and the sheep probably won't believe me anymore...
Friday, January 10, 2014
Apple Breakfast Casserole Recipe
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6-8 sliced of bread, toasted and cut in 1" squares (or other leftover bread)
3 apples, cut in 1" cubes
1/2 cup Craisins (or other dried fruit in sm. pieces)
6 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
Cinnamon, Ginger, Allspice, Nutmeg
sour cream, yogurt, apple sauce, etc. for serving
1. Preheat oven to 325'
2. Grease the bottom of an 8x10 baking dish. spread your bread pieces across the bottom.
3. Spread apple pieces on top
4. Sprinkle dried fruit across top of apples
5. Beat together eggs and sour cream
6. Sprinkle spices across top. (I rarely measure, just use my nose until it smells good, so start sparingly!)
7. Place in pre-heated oven for 50-60 minutes or until apples are soft and eggs are set.
Serve as-is or feel free to use sour cream, syrup, yogurt, apple sauce, fruit butter, chutney, etc on top. (Especially if you let it bake while you went outside to do animal chores and over-baked it a little! :) )
6-8 sliced of bread, toasted and cut in 1" squares (or other leftover bread)
3 apples, cut in 1" cubes
1/2 cup Craisins (or other dried fruit in sm. pieces)
6 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
Cinnamon, Ginger, Allspice, Nutmeg
sour cream, yogurt, apple sauce, etc. for serving
1. Preheat oven to 325'
2. Grease the bottom of an 8x10 baking dish. spread your bread pieces across the bottom.
3. Spread apple pieces on top
4. Sprinkle dried fruit across top of apples
5. Beat together eggs and sour cream
6. Sprinkle spices across top. (I rarely measure, just use my nose until it smells good, so start sparingly!)
7. Place in pre-heated oven for 50-60 minutes or until apples are soft and eggs are set.
Serve as-is or feel free to use sour cream, syrup, yogurt, apple sauce, fruit butter, chutney, etc on top. (Especially if you let it bake while you went outside to do animal chores and over-baked it a little! :) )
Leftover Breakfast pie Recipe
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Corned beef and cabbage for dinner? not much of a corned been sandwich family or is there just not much left for leftovers? This recipe was a breakfast hit with my family and great for all sorts of leftovers that just aren't ever quite as good as "Leftovers"... You can probably tailor the recipe to any type of meat roast and vegetable dinner that now is crowding the fridge as leftovers.
leftover cooked Cabbage (about 1/4 of a large head, cooked)
Leftover Mashed Potatoes
Leftover Corned Beef or 1/2 lb fresh sausage
2-3 medium Carrots (leftover or fresh)
one small Onion, leftover or fresh
4 eggs
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
Sour Cream, for serving
1. Pre-heat oven to 325' Prepare a baking pan or pie plate appropriate to number of folks you're feeding. (There were 4 adults and one 4 yo eating breakfast, I used a 9" ceramic pie pan)
2. If using fresh sausage or onions, cut onions into large pieces and cook until browned in a small frying pan with sausage. Break sausage up into small pieces while cooking.
3. if using fresh carrots, chop into about 1/2" pieces or slices. Chop cabbage leaves into bite sized sections, place in baking pan with carrot pieces.
4. If using leftover corned beef, shred or slice into sections and toss in baking pan with cabbage and carrots.
5. add to baking pan cooked sausage and onions and toss together with cabbage and onions.
6. Settle the meat and veggies into a nice even layer in the pan. Beat eggs and pour into baking pan
7. Spread potatoes in an even layer across the top
8. Sprinkle Cheese across top of breakfast pie
9. Place in pre-heated oven and bake for 45-60 minutes or until carrots are soft and eggs are set.
10. Serve with a dollop of sour cream.
11. lick the baking pan clean... yes it was that good!
Corned beef and cabbage for dinner? not much of a corned been sandwich family or is there just not much left for leftovers? This recipe was a breakfast hit with my family and great for all sorts of leftovers that just aren't ever quite as good as "Leftovers"... You can probably tailor the recipe to any type of meat roast and vegetable dinner that now is crowding the fridge as leftovers.
leftover cooked Cabbage (about 1/4 of a large head, cooked)
Leftover Mashed Potatoes
Leftover Corned Beef or 1/2 lb fresh sausage
2-3 medium Carrots (leftover or fresh)
one small Onion, leftover or fresh
4 eggs
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
Sour Cream, for serving
1. Pre-heat oven to 325' Prepare a baking pan or pie plate appropriate to number of folks you're feeding. (There were 4 adults and one 4 yo eating breakfast, I used a 9" ceramic pie pan)
2. If using fresh sausage or onions, cut onions into large pieces and cook until browned in a small frying pan with sausage. Break sausage up into small pieces while cooking.
3. if using fresh carrots, chop into about 1/2" pieces or slices. Chop cabbage leaves into bite sized sections, place in baking pan with carrot pieces.
4. If using leftover corned beef, shred or slice into sections and toss in baking pan with cabbage and carrots.
5. add to baking pan cooked sausage and onions and toss together with cabbage and onions.
6. Settle the meat and veggies into a nice even layer in the pan. Beat eggs and pour into baking pan
7. Spread potatoes in an even layer across the top
8. Sprinkle Cheese across top of breakfast pie
9. Place in pre-heated oven and bake for 45-60 minutes or until carrots are soft and eggs are set.
10. Serve with a dollop of sour cream.
11. lick the baking pan clean... yes it was that good!
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Seasonality
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Just this morning, while trellising tomatoes and cucumbers
in the hoophouse, Jason found the very first ripe cucumber! It was so amazingly juicy and cucumber-y and
amazing as it is, cool on the inside.
Just barely. We have a tradition
around here that I hope gets almost downright silly in future years. Whenever someone finds the first ripe
something that is best eaten fresh, like a tomato or cucumber, everyone gets to
share a piece. That includes the first
cherry tomato… yeah, go ahead and imagine that.
Now imagine that with employees someday… are you laughing yet? Yeah, me too.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Internship Opportunity!
Omache Farm has an opening for an Intern for the 2012 season!
Do you want to REALLY see what happens on a small, diversified vegetable and livestock farm on the Palouse? Do you want to have the opportunity to learn about EVERYTHING from planning to planting to caring to harvesting? And from birth to shearing to rotating to finishing? From planning to doing to recording and back? See what it's really like from the OTHER SIDE of the Farmer's Market table?
Check out our Information here: Internship Opportunity
Have we scared you away yet? No? Then shoot us an email or call us. Let's Talk.
Do you want to REALLY see what happens on a small, diversified vegetable and livestock farm on the Palouse? Do you want to have the opportunity to learn about EVERYTHING from planning to planting to caring to harvesting? And from birth to shearing to rotating to finishing? From planning to doing to recording and back? See what it's really like from the OTHER SIDE of the Farmer's Market table?
Check out our Information here: Internship Opportunity
Have we scared you away yet? No? Then shoot us an email or call us. Let's Talk.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
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!
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!
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