Is spring here yet?

Category: Farming is what we do | Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:37 am

I haven't been blogging for the past three weeks because we took our first winter trip after children(more about that later) and I was really hoping that while I was away spring would have magicaly appeared here in the pataha creek valley but no such luck. So I shall just have to pretend for a while longer.
My husband Clay is a 3rd generation dry land wheat farmer here in southeast Washington State. Dry land meaning we count on rainfall not irrigation. We farm 3500 acres here in the county with one young man who works with us. Our four farms are located throughout the county in low to high rainfall areas. Since we moved here twelve years ago we have been working towards farming our land with toughts towards what is best for the land and the wildlife. This past year we changed our farm practices completely over to no-till which means we will never again plow our land and we seed directly into last years stubble ground.

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glendann wrote on Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:48 am:

Hi englishrose,Glad to see you back.I'm not much of a farmer so I don't know much about it.I just wonder how that will work.Let us know.

eileen wrote on Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:16 pm:

Quite a few farmers here use the no-plough method ER and it certainly seems to work for them. Hope it does for you too.

reggaefan wrote on Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:32 pm:

Thank yall for being sood stewards of the earth,its yhe only one we have

cajunbelle wrote on Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:49 pm:

Glad to see you back ER. I think everyone is waiting for spring.

pondlady wrote on Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:12 pm:

Thanks so much ER for caring for our earth. Now if we could feed people with our crops rather than feeding animals, we could care for it and ourselves even more.