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In the past few days we’ve received nearly a foot of snow.  It’s wonderful looking out over the snow covered fields knowing that when it …

After two weeks of gray skies and a wonderful rain a few days ago we had 52* weather, sunshine and blue skies today! We finished …

We began spreading organic fertilizer on the fields today.  It’s a gorgeous composted concoction sure to make the plants happy!  

We have been experiencing record low nighttime temperatures for over a week with no end in sight to the single and negative digits.  Daytime is …

We use a bale scale to weigh our bales.  It’s attached to the back of the baler, a bale exits the baling chamber onto the …

Mother Nature paints a beautiful picture of brightly colored foliage in the fall.  It’s a time of harvest and plenty.  We hope you are enjoying …

Last night we had our first frost.  It was only a light frost but was a harbinger of things to come.  The grass growth has …

We began cutting 5th cutting hay yesterday.  The weather window for putting it up dry with no rain looks good.  Call to order your hay …

As soon as the weather settles and the fields dry out we’ll be cutting 5th cutting.  This summer seems to have flown by!  

This is a photo of our 20 acre non-irrigated hay field.  The ponds in the background are connected to the Columbia River.  The field isn’t …

Last night we were in the trough between two big storms.  We didn’t get any rain but the winds howled!  The 46 mph winds whipped …

Today we are cutting in the field edges in preparation for 4th cutting.  Mother Nature willing we will cut the fields within the next few …

This weekend we introduced four youngsters to beekeeping.  They learned about bee husbandry and then had a special treat – raw comb honey straight from …