Future Farmers in Training - Part 1

View from the perennial flower patch,
through the triticale and wheat
into the 25-Acre "Big Field"

Lettuce Beds in the 2-Acre Garden

Well, it's been a few years since we posted here but we've recently embarked on a new kind of adventure and I thought it might be nice to document it.  I don't know if anyone is still interested in following this... but I'm posting anyway!!

This April Kevin and I started a season-long (April-Nov) internship on a full diet organic farm between Sisters and Terrebonne in Central Oregon.  What is a full diet organic farm you ask?  We grow/raise pretty much everything we consume right here without using herbicides or pesticides.  This includes almost any vegetable you can imagine, plus some fruit, pasture raised chickens (for meat and eggs), hogs, and beef, grain for flour and even a dairy cow for fresh milk and dairy products.  We live in a tent and share communal kitchen and bath space with the other 7 interns.


We are working through a program called Rogue Farm Corps and our farm is Rainshadow Organics.  I'll include links to these in case anyone's interested in checking them out.

http://www.rainshadoworganics.com
https://www.roguefarmcorps.org/

I also want to say that we are incredibly busy and absolutely exhausted at the end of every day.  Taking extra time to write a blog is really not what either of us want to do right now.  However, our host farmer/mentor, Sarahlee Lawrence, likes to hold our paychecks hostage until we right a monthly reflection for her.  My thought is that I can use these reflections for the narrative, and then include some pictures.  If you have any questions about what we're doing or want to hear more about something in particular, let me know and I'll dive in!  So... here's the first instalment!