Category: Country Life

Mini Bale Project 2024

The kids continued their tradition of baling up mini two-tie bales to sell this fall. We would love to get these to a porch near you!!!

The kids baled and stacked these little cuties. We will have them for sale through us but also through some stores and farm markets. There is a list below of where they will be sold so far. I’ll update other places you can find them through the fall for purchase.

This project started with the kids hand baling grass seed straw that was left on the corners of the fields by our house. Then last year we had a neighbor who helped us actually bale the straw and this year they have their own two string baler to get the job done.

As always I love seeing our kids get an idea and have the ability to follow it through and do a little farming themselves. I was just recently explaining to someone that farm kids just don’t know any different. In their mind this is just what you do, look for opportunity, work hard and you hope it pays off. Love starting that at an early age.

Who knows where this project of their’s will lead in the future. But for now this 10, 8 and 6 year old are having a lot of fun making all these mini bales!

If you’re interested feel free to get a hold of me through the website on the “contact me” form, or email me at brenda@kirschfamilyfarms.com.

Where to buy:

Septembers 5th – Nash and Nichol Fall Favorites
September 14th – Bankers Cup Saturday Market

Upcoming-

Sonnen Farms

Heiser Farms Pumpkin Patch

My Favorite Field

Some fields on our farm I wish were 1000 acres by themselves so we could camp out for weeks just harvesting in that one perfect spot. We harvested my favorite field last night. Sitting there in the beautiful shade of old oak trees reminded me how every year when we harvest here no one ever wants to leave.

For the kids there are adventures at every turn. In years past they have built forts or climbed on old equipment parked out back. This year Auggie made a restaurant selling all sorts of delicious tree bark and grass straw main courses.

There was four wheeler riding, dinner eating, cold beverage drinking and even a dance performance on the old grain bin slab.

The next few weeks will feel like the Sahara desert compared to this. A lot more dust, more gravel roads and zero trees for shade.

But it sure makes you feel thankful for that one field, under those old oak trees, that you always wish could be 1000 acres.

The Start of Spring

We have hit the “it’s a good day to go get a tractor stuck” weather! Woo hoo!!! For those of you who don’t farm that means the sun has come out and every farmer is rushing around thinking now is the time to get all the things done. Meanwhile Mother Nature has dumped quite a bit of moisture which is sitting in the soil just waiting for you to give her a go so she can laugh.

I would bet we could queue up a few buried or at least stuck-in-the-mud tractor pictures this coming weekend. I’m hoping we aren’t one of them because we’ve all been there. We do have some radish we would love to get planted in this beautiful window of weather; but like I said, sometimes we get a little excited and things don’t go our way and it’s just not time and the soil isn’t ready.

So until then we can still get lots done in this sunshine. This week we took the kids out to pull wheat out of some grass seed fields. I told them it would take 5 minutes…and an hour later we were back home. So they are slowly getting the language of all farmers engrained in their young minds. Always bring a lunch folks.

I’m sure if you’re in any sort of farming area here in the Willamette Valley you’ll see a lot of activity in the coming days. Keep an eye out on the roads for SMV’s (slow moving vehicles) and please be patient, we are as excited as the rest of you for this spring sunshine to hit; our vehicles just drive a little slower.