What a combo! Right before Thanksgiving we stumbled upon an Allis G tractor for sale. It happened to be a pretty good price and locally available so we jumped on it. It feels crazy buying a tractor before we even own land to really put it to use on but we have faith…It is a 1949 cultivating tractor. Basically the whole purpose is weeding, which happens to be a lot of the work you do on an organic farm. In the long run this new edition to the farmscape should pay for itself again and again and again.
We’ve also been doing everything we can think of to find ground to grow on this next season. I drove around Clackamas County for the better part of a day posting Farm Land Wanted signs in food/farm stores. It was a fun way to get to know the county but not so fruitful in offers. This past week we’ve been lucky enough to visit 3 potential sites and one of them is relatively close and has water. For the time being we are going to see how things pan out with the land we are on (buying/leasing/renting) and if we don’t know by the the end of the year we’ll probably move forward with something else. Cross your fingers for us!
This temperature has been strange and beautiful. We somehow managed to talk ourselves into going on a hike up Dog Mountain Monday and were greatly rewarded. It has been a while since we’d walked on snow and the clear sky allowed views of all the close mountains, the Columbia, and more… Pretty phenomenal but not so much for the veggies still outside. We’ll see how the thaw goes.
