- Walking Fields
- The Start of Spring
- Porch Bale Project; The Kids have Bales for Sale!
- In Between the Last Crop & the Next
- The start, the middle, or the end of harvest?
- Booker the Farm Dog; Plus one Year, Minus one Leg
- We can just get it done later – Crimson Clover’s Story of 2023
- Newest Crop on the Farm
- Farm Help
- Weed Spraying by Backpack – It’s Not Efficient, But It’s Important
- Out with the Old and In with the New….Filberts
- Two of the busiest days in farming
- The Pirate Ship Sails….Farm Kid Style
- Oregon Grass Seed Research Roundtable
- Not Quite Spring just yet
- Catching up on our family news…
- Proactive Bills at the Legislature??
- Crimson Clover Harvest is starting….and is over!
- Kicking off July 2022 with Irrigation!
- Summer Workers
- Grandma Arlene
- A Goodbye to a Great Man Gone too Soon; Rest In Peace Austin
- Doing What We’ve Always Done – NOPE
- The Business of Agriculture Podcast
- Grandpa Marlin
- The Sinking Supply Chain
- Planting Crimson Clover
- Triage of Fall Farming
- Harvest Kids – Photo Friday
- Hot Weather in Oregon
- Hoot’s Farm Tour!!
- Spring Orchard Preparation
- Please Don’t Silence the Rural Voice in Oregon
- Marginalized and Silenced; Voices being dammed at the legislature
- Ice Storm 2021 Update
- Ice Storm hits Oregon
- Tractor’s Farewell
- Removing Older Hazelnut Trees
- Replacing Older Hazelnut Trees
- Baby Grass Seed Scouting
- It’s Nut Harvest Time!!
- When Voles Attack
- The Start to Harvest & Dinner in the Field
- Looking for Weeds in an 8ft Tall Crop
- FRED Talk in the Field
- Water is for Fighting, Part 3, The Ask
- Water is for Fighting, Part 2, What’s Happening Now
- Water is for Fighting, Part 1, Background
- Blooming Crimson Clover
- The Good, The Bad, and The Farmer
- Hazelnut Trees & Allergies
- My Journey to Find 98 Chlorpyrifos Alternatives; The Unexpected Rabbit Hole
- Almost Spring Farm Update
- Click HERE to find out where Legislators are Hiding!
- Timber Unity Rally February 6th….See you there!!!
- Why do we grow grass seed in Oregon??
- Hazelnut Harvest 2019
- Why All the Fuss about the Dust?
- The Beginning of Hazelnut Harvest
- What Happened to the Ditch Bill??
- Squirrel Trapping in the Orchard
- An Open Letter to Gov. Kate Brown on Ditch Cleaning
- Harvesting our Undies!!
- Natural Resources Rally at the Capitol 2019
- Why I’m Supporting the Walk Out
- Our latest crop, Tighty Whities
- County Road Safety, House Bill 3213
- FarmHer April 12th, 6:30pm
- Strong Family Roots
- Farming as a Woman
- Daylight Savings Time or Standard Time???
- More on Cap & Trade
- Cap & Trade Testimony
- Spraying Field Video
- Eagle Decoys
- Accepting the Unbalance
- Vote YES on Measure 104
- Oregon Ballot Measure 103
- Squash Seed Harvest 2018
- Hazelnut Harvest Time….almost!!
- The Transition Period: From One Crop Year to the Next
- Video on Spraying Suckers & Drip Irrigation
- Harvest Updates
- The Day the Wheels Came Off
- Harvest 2018 Begins
- Farm Update
- Goodbye Old Farm Dog
- Meet Miss Mildred Clara Frketich
- The Day Before Kiddo #3 is Born!!
- Crimson Clover Field That Just Can’t Win
- New Worker Protection Standards, Comments are DUE!!
- Life Beyond the Farm & Having it All
- More Hazelnut Trees in the Ground
- The Why, What and How of Spraying Clover Today
- Hazelnut Harvest 2017
- Farming and Family-ing
- Eclipse 2017
- Harvest Update 2017
- Green Bean Harvest 2017
- Improving Water Management in Hazelnuts
- Summertime as Farm Boys
- It’s Rodeo Time in St. Paul!
- Cropping Decisions and the Weather
- Memorial Day 2017
- Crimson Clover in Bloom 2017
- Farm Boys
- Radish & Wheat
- The Sun is Out!!! (For One Day Only)
- Happy Easter from the Field
- Happy Birthday to My Farmer
- Ag Day is Everyday #AgDay365
- Farm Rule vs. Auggie Rule
- Still in the Orchard
- Well…it’s still raining in Oregon
- Dirt Math
- Goodbye to Old Grey
- Farmers, Ranchers & Foresters Crush Bad Bill
- A Call To Action: Farmers, Ranchers, & Foresters against HB 2859
- A “Little” Hazelnut Pruning
- Walking Fields & Changing Shoes
- Checking on a Baby Field
- Antibiotics in Milk
- “Our Ag Story, What’s Yours?”
- Mom Days
- Ask A Farmer at the Smithsonian
- Advice for a Keynote…And it’s funny!
- Weather Update…It’s Still Cold!
- Orchard Work Continues
- Flailing in the Freeze
- Making the Most of the Only Time I’ve Got, Hello 2017!
- SNOW DAYS!
- AM Northwest
- Home…
- Meeting Season
- Christmas Lights!!
- Thank You All Again!
- Ag Connection Award 2016
- Which Farmer should you Believe?
- Photo Friday, Birthday Friday
- Hazelnut Harvest & a New Harvester (for a day)
- Crop #12, Poplar Trees
- Good Morning
- Wheat Field Fire
- Wheat harvest
- A Farmer’s Bottom Line
- Green Beans, Squash and Natural Shade
- Ask a Farmer at the Smithsonian
- Ask a Farmer
- How Does a Farmer know it’s Time to Irrigate?
- Harvest Excited, Harvest Tired
- Photo Friday, Grass Seed Harvest
- The St. Paul Rodeo
- Pea Harvest 2016
- Photo Friday…Dinners All Around!
- Crop Farm Tour
- FarmHer Heels
- Memorial Day 2016
- Farm Shop Safety: Improving Your Odds
- How Farmers Take Care of Bees
- Letter to Fred Meyer on non-GMO Labeling
- Crap on the Farm, Literally!
- Lucky to be a Farmer & a Mom
- Photo Friday, Swiss Chard
- What Crops are GMO’s?
- A Farmer’s Earth Day Story
- Our Little Farmer
- Family Farming
- Tree Sunscreen
- 1 Reason I Spray Round-up on Our Farm
- Photo Friday, Random Farm Moments
- Safety Training on the Farm
- Wisdom in the Trees
- 5 Top Reasons to have a Lawn
- Crops are Waking Up
- Photo Friday…Fkr or Frk…what?
- NO to Raising Oregon’s Minimum Wage
- Another Day on the Farm…
- Getting back in the Field
- Seed Pre-emption at the Oregon Legislature
- The Views from My Office
- Photo Friday…Rainbows on the Farm
- Minimum Wage Hearing
- Photo Friday, Shop Safety Film Shoot
- Finally Home
- Christmas comes Early at the Frketich House
- Entertaining a Toddler at the Farm
- Working in the Cold here in Oregon
- Turkey Shoot November 22, 2015
- Goodbye to Diesel
- Thank You Veterans
- American Farm Bureau Presidental Election
- Farm Photo Friday
- Business & Pleasure, A Trip South of the Border
- Fall Leaves for Photo Friday
- New Cousin Oliver & Pumpkin Patch
- Photo Friday, Cultivating Cabbage
- Hazelnut Harvest Videos, 2015
- Before and After a Little Moisture
- Hazelnut Harvest 2015
- Photo Friday…Country Roads
- Farm Kids are Healthier!
- Swiss Chard
- Looking for Sprout
- Life on “Just a Crop Farm”
- Is this crop year over yet?
- Wine & Grass Seed Tour 2015
- Wine & Grass Seed
- Border Spraying
- Little Helper
- U.S. Breast Milk: Glyphosate-free
- Photo Friday, Small Getaway
- Wheat & Green Beans…More Harvesting!
- Top 10 Ways You know it’s Harvest at our House
- Combining Cabbage Seed
- Green Beans!
- Photo Friday, Family Farming
- St. Paul Rodeo 2015
- Farmers & Baseball Come Together
- The Weather
- Step Two of Crimson Clover Harvest
- Green Beans…Round 2
- Step One of Crimson Clover Harvest
- It’s Mom Sense: Farming in Focus
- Irrigation in the Wheat Field
- Happy Memorial Day
- Since We Have 2 Combines…
- It’s Green Bean Time
- 1 Year Ago…
- Spring Time Blooms
- First Steps
- Green Bean Field Dirt Work
- Congress – Not States – Should Handle GMO Labeling
- Shelly Davis, NW Farm Mom of the Year!!
- The Pea Field has Been Saved!
- Photo Friday, Your Voice Your Vote
- Conversation about Minimum Wage Continues in Salem
- Peas and the Weather
- How do you do it?
- Photo Friday…Crops
- FFA Convention 2015
- FFA State Convention…Refreshment Delivery
- Happy Ag Week!
- From the Eyes of a Farm Boy
- Dissecting the article…”Dissecting Organic”
- Photo Friday…Baby It’s Cold Outside
- Photo Friday…Oh Dang it, it’s Monday
- Without Employers…there is No Paid Sick Leave
- Testifying on Paid Sick Leave
- What’s going on in that Field?
- Another Winter Project
- The “Other” Blog & Women as the Minority
- More Cabbage!
- Mom and Farmer
- Spraying Round-up
- Cabbage Update
- This is Your “Off” Season…right?
- The Adventures of Hoot! LA & Disneyland
- Prairie Californian…Queen of Toxic Wheat?
- Photo Friday
- Hate Mail & Thank Yous
- Merry Christmas!
- Farm Bureau…Who is in Charge?
- Answer to the Tree Mystery
- Saying Goodbye to a Tree or Two
- Field Pests
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Wheat Hauling
- A Farmer’s Response to, “The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic…”
- Elk Hunting Trip
- Beautiful Sunset
- Election Day
- Happy Halloween
- Office View from the Farm
- Measure 92, GMO Labeling
- Loss of a Great Farmer
- Hazelnut Harvest Videos
- Cabbage Cultivation
- St. Paul Mission Historical Society Event
- Hazelnut Harvest
- A New Addition to the Farm
- Gravel Roads
- Photo Friday…Delicious!
- Cabbage is Sprouting
- Photo Friday…A New Crop
- Harvest Dinners
- Photo Friday…Wheat Harvest
- Field Life Starts Early
- When to Start Combining?
- Happy 4th of July
- Photo Friday, Neighbors at Work
- Photo Friday…Baby Ones Obviously!
- Welcome to the Party Little Man!
- Club Med…at the Farm
- A New Appreciation for Mom’s Day
- Drones for Farming?
- Honor Flight
- Photo Friday…A Great Start to the Day
- The Triage of Spring Farming
- Photo Friday…Geese at an All You Can Eat Buffet
- Local Issues with Larger Repercussions?
- Photo Friday…What is Growing?
- Make-Over…for the blog
- Photo Friday… The Peas are a Growin’
- Living a Zoo of a Life
- Baby Update
- Photo Friday…on Monday
- Sunny Weekend Before the Rain
- Spring Ground Work
- A Crop between a Crop
- Spring Wheat Planting
- Young Farmers at the Capital
- Small Wildlife on the Farm
- Home Sweet Home
- Photo Friday from San Antonio, TX
- Getting your Zzzzzz’s
- New Farm Policy?
- GMO Labeling in Oregon
- Missed (most) of the Snow this Year
- Young Farmers & Ranchers 2014
- Winter Blast 2014!
- Top Superbowl Commercials 2014
- Agchat 2014
- John Deere in Moline, Illinois
- It’s FOGGY!
- Photo Friday….Amazing Grass Seed Plants
- Still Learning…
- Continue Learning
- Saying Goodbye to Miss Millie
- 2013, Whirlwind of Year
- The Goose Debacle
- Merry Christmas!
- America’s Best Young Farmer & Rancher
- Photo Friday…
- Stay Warm!!!!
- The PowerPoint Slide…
- Another Blog…More Farm Stories
- The Day After Thanksgiving
- FFA Agricultural Sales Competition
- A Very Cold…and Very Pretty Sunset
- Oregon Farm Bureau Ag Tour 2013
- The Slugs are Here
- Thank You Vetrans
- Some Crazy Weather
- Hunting…Not so Quietly
- Happy Halloween
- Ah Turning 30…
- What We’re up to on Our Farm
- Our Newest Adventure
- More Hazelnuts, and Planting
- Hazelnut Harvest
- A Big Win for Oregon Farmers
- More on GMO’s and Special Session
- Special Legislative Session, 2013
- Beautiful Weather and Hazelnuts
- Get back to me…
- Bower’s Family Farm, Photo Friday
- One More Harvest Left
- Photo Friday, Padget Ranches
- Happy Labor Day
- Photo Friday at Pearmine Farms
- I am Oregon Agriculture!
- Photo Friday…Harvest in Milton Freewater, Oregon
- A Costa Rican Adventure
- Irrigation Crew
- A Nutty Tour
- WE’RE DONE!!
- Homestretch of Harvest
- Hurry Up and Wait…
- #PluckEZChicken, Is Panera Claiming Farmers are Lazy?
- More Field Pictures
- Do you want to Adopt a Farmer??
- Sorry! Now for Life in the Fields…
- Manager vs. Employee
- The Final Crimson Post…for now…
- Crimson Clover Harvest
- Whew…What a Whirwind!
- Farmer/Wedding Planner
- Peas…From our Field to your Freezer
- Why grow Crimson Clover for Seed?
- Photo Friday
- GMO Wheat in Oregon
- Oregon State University Field Day 2013
- Happy Memorial Day!
- The Life of an Unlucky Traveler…
- The Rest of the Crops
- Clover Update Today…
- Dear Mom…
- Crimson Clover in Bloom!
- Baby It’s HOT Outside!
- The Standoff
- Helping Grass to Not Grow…
- The Barkdust Party
- Happy Earth Day!
- Drive in a Convertible on the Farm…
- Did you know…Oregon Ag Trivia!
- Spring Wheat Fertilizing
- A few Facts & off to the Capital again…
- The Sun Is…or WAS shining! Spring is here!
- 10 Things I learned in Washington DC
- One Winter Project Done
- We’re ALL Farmers Here
- A trip to Washington DC
- A Happy Birthday to my Sis!
- Oregon Senate Bill 633
- Look how the Wheat Fields have Grown!
- Sunday…Work day?
- Walking the Newly Planted Wheat Fields
- I would like to Introduce…
- Feeding the Grass Plants
- Top 8 Winter Jobs on Our Farm
- National FFA Week!
- The Rest of the Tour
- Tours of Pheonix Arizona, DeJong Dairy
- More than Just Leadership at YFR Conference
- On the 8th Day…God Made a Farmer
- Young Farmers Learn about Hazelnuts
- Thank You for All your Support!!!
- Blight Scouting in Hazelnuts…Photo Friday
- Farming is more than Plows & Cows?
- Baby Grass is Growing…
- Walking Fields in January
- A walk with the Dogs
- Funny Country Moment
- Beautiful Start to 2013
- It’s been a very Happy Year…
- Merry Christmas!!
- Photo Friday?
- Wordless…and SNOW!!
- Lots of Prayers this Christmas Season…
- Until Next Week…Sorry!
- Oregon Farm Bureau Annual Meeting
- Oregon Farm Bureau Annual Meeting, it’s More than JUST a Meeting…
- Good Morning!
- Happy Birthday x 2
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Faces of Farming & Ranching
- Good ‘ol Days.
- Farming…It’s more about Slugs than Glamour
- Unfortunately it’s not a YES on Measure 84
- Why Bother Voting?
- My best Halloween Story…
- 12 Things I’ve Learned in 29 Years…
- Fall Leaves are Falling
- The Rain is Here…already??
- Vote YES on Measure 84!
- Squash Harvest 2012
- Hazelnut Harvest…The Rest of the Story
- Filbert Harvest From Start to…middle 🙂
- Heading into the last Harvest of the Year!
- The Before & The After…Only 2 days of work!
- 1st Dirty Dozen of Homeownership…
- Starting to feel like Fall
- It’s not always about Hunting on the Farm…
- Squash is Looking Good
- Land Use Planning in Oregon
- It’s Budgeting Time at the Farm….
- Why be Involved in your Industry?
- Homemade & Homegrown
- Some Great News!!!
- Orange Squash & Something that Doesn’t Belong…
- Tractor Driving Contest
- Wordless…Dog Walking
- GM Foods & Hamsters…Don’t be Afraid!!
- Wordless Wednesday…What we are up to Today
- Farm Organization…at its Best
- It’s harvest…It’s Dirty
- Harvest…from the Eyes of Teenagers
- Bugs of Summer
- Farm Talk
- 1st Day of Combining Grass Seed 2012
- Swathing Demo…or Roller Coaster Ride??
- Wordless…Everything is Changing so Fast!
- Agriculture: A Woman’s World??
- Harvest is HERE! Crimson Clover…Crop #1
- “10 Things You Need to Know when Dating a Fisherman” has posted!
- 10 Things you need to know when dating a Fisherman…
- Happy 4th of July!!
- It’s Rodeo Time in St. Paul, Oregon
- Wordless…and Foggy!
- Why I want to End the Oregon Death Tax…
- Our 1st Squash Crop is Comin’ Right Along!
- Happy Father’s Day…
- Salmon Fishing & Canning
- How I got here today….
- Wordless Wednesday….
- Life Lesson from Corn
- Wordless Wednesday…End of May 2012
- A Well Deserved Rememberance…
- 5 Things you May Hear When Dating this Farm Girl…5 Things you Won’t!
- Wordless Wednesday…Spring is here!!
- With Adversity comes Diversity on our Operation
- 5 Gifts from My Mom…
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia…but What if you Farm in Oregon??
- Youth Labor Laws Scrapped!
- The Hunt is On!
- She talks like a Farmer, and looks like a Farmer…but what about when she doesn’t?
- Death Taxes…How will they Impact our Farm?
- The Awkwardness of Social Media
- Kenya 2012…Challenges & Blessings of Farming
- Mission Trip to Kenya, 2012 – CPR & FIRST AID
- Wild Goose Chasing…Is it working?
- 5 Crops and what to plant?
- Conventional or Organic…what do you put in your grocery cart??
- In my First Year of Farming…
- Flying with Turkeys….
- The Why…
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