It was at a family farmer and rancher community grassroots meeting that I met Donna Smith. My husband and I had driven in to Portland to attend the January meeting. We wanted to see what this Agricultural Reclamation Act (ARA) gathering was all about.
As a relative newcomer to the farming community, I was more of [...]
Only two days after visiting the Malinowski Farm outside of Portland, I got an email from Greg Malinowski asking “Did you like the meat?” I’d purchased ground beef and round steak from the deep freezer on the farm. This is just one of the indications that Greg cares about his land, his cows, and [...]
Clare Carver of Big Table Farm in Gaston, Oregon speaks of her experience being involved with Friends of Family Farmers.
If you had asked Ross and Kelly McGarva whether or not they were going to go into the meat processing business a few years back, they probably would not have answered yes. But in 2005, they did just that, taking on Lakeview Lockers, a custom meat processing plant that has been servicing Lake County since [...]
“Message marked urgent,” was the notification that we first received on June 23rd, the morning that the article, Making a Match Down on the Farm, ran in the Oregonian about our iFarm Oregon project. The voice, quiet yet strong, reported that she learned of Friends of Family Farmers and the iFarm Oregon [...]
“You ever been to Langlois?” the man behind the deli counter asked me after I mentioned where I was heading. “Not that I can recall,” I answered, “may have passed through a few years back.” “Don’t blink,” he said. “You’ll miss it.”
With that piece of sound advice, I got back in the car and headed [...]
Suzanne Willow and Lanita Witt have been on their 440 acres near Grizzly Peak and the Oregon/California border for over 20 years. This old mountain lake bed and surrounding woodland were completely covered in snow when they purchased it years ago, deciding that this enchanting place was the home for Willow Witt ranch. [...]
Barb Foulke and her family got into the hazelnut business 10 years ago with 60 acres, after moving from the Okanogan area of Eastern Washington to the Salem area. The Foulke Family Farm and Freddy Guy Hazelnuts have since increased to 165 active acres of filberts, with 35 more to come online soon because as [...]
John and Christine Deck of the Deck Family Farm live just outside of Junction City, OR. John and Christine are raising their children, along with a handful of dairy cows, several beef cattle, pigs, chickens (for meat and eggs), turkeys, sheep, lambs, goats and ducks on 320 acres of beautiful, rolling pasture and woodland [...]
Ken and Susan Muller, along with Margaret Krout of Rogue Valley Brambles in Talent, Oregon are new farmers in Jackson County, but growth and learning happen fast when you are one of the only farms around to offer the public pastured poultry and eggs. Rogue Valley Brambles began a year and a half ago when [...]
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