Category: Agriculture

Shelly Davis, NW Farm Mom of the Year!!

10995597_10152729854506146_5147470249834094658_nEvery year the American Agri-women choose 5 Farm moms across the country to honor for their advocacy to agriculture, community work, and love for their families and farms.  Those regional winners are then put into a national competition of voting, to see who will be America’s Farm Mom of 2015.

My friend Shelly Davis was chosen this year as the Northwest Farm mom!  Stay tuned for more of why she’s amazing, but for now and for my photo Friday I will leave you with a photo of this wonderful farm mom and a link to voting which opened today!

10462665_10152127945326146_8094876037958855953_nVoting Link: http://www.americasfarmers.com/recognition-programs/farm-mom-nominees-2015/

You can vote once per day, per email, until May 6th!!  Let’s show America than this Oregon farmer and farm mom is well deserving!!

 

The Pea Field has Been Saved!

The pea field has been saved!  Well not exactly…the pea seeds have rotted, the peas are dead, and now the peas are gone!!  This is when living in an area where over 250 different crops are grown can pay off.  After posting my blog the other week about losing a portion of our pea field due to some very wet soil and untimely rain after planting, I got a call from a friend who plants many different types of pumpkins.  He wondered if there was any way he could use the field to plant some for this coming season.

FullSizeRenderOn the left is where he has worked the ground for pumpkins, on the right is our pea field.

Well why not?  Better than growing a weed patch and losing out on 15 acres of good soil for the year.  So he moved some equipment in last week and started working ground to get it ready.  It just goes to show that even when things look like a tough loss they can always turn around.

You can find out more about all the different types of pumpkins this family grows on their farm at https://autumnharvestpumpkins.com.  Meanwhile the rest of the peas are growing fast and looking really good! (PHEW!!)

FFA State Convention…Refreshment Delivery

It’s only fitting that National Ag Week is wrapping up, just as Oregon state FFA convention is getting started.  The brightest young agriculturalists in the state will be competing for top state recognition this coming weekend.  So Oregon Young Farmers and Ranchers, in conjunction with Country Financial Insurance are hosting a reception to honor those at the very top, the students who will be receiving their State Degrees this year.

So it might seems strange that these are the photos I took of our trip today to drop off refreshments…considering they are high school students.

IMG_3151But no, we are not celebrating quite like you might think…if you look closely you will see something like this on the labels…

IMG_3152IMG_3153And then you add a little of this…

IMG_3149If you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re having floats with a local flavor.  Thank you to Mt. Angel Brewing for some delicious pop!  And congrats Oregon FFA students…you deserve the best after all your hard work!

Happy Friday everyone!