Seed Keepers

["Margaret L. Wilson" <booldawgs@frontiernet.net>]

Thanks, it is a beautiful place to live.  I wish we would have gotten it 
when I was about 20-30 years younger.  It seems pretty overwhelming at 
times.  It was an old rundown, worn-out ranch that I am trying to make into 
a farm.  We are in SW Oregon, just across the border from California, in the 
Illinois Valley.  I grew up in Colorado and the climate here is more to my 
liking although we had a hard freeze last night and will have another 
tonight.  It is very unpopulated here which suits me fine.  I have pretty 
much abandoned my dream of market farming and am just working for 
sustainability and feeding family in the future.

That is Julius, a Dexter bull, one of the coolest animals you could ever 
meet.  He was de-horned before we got him.  He would look just like a little 
buffalo if he had horns.  He is the soul of gentleness and gives his 
disposition and dairy quality to his daughters.  Dexters are a very small 
breed of cattle that originally came from Ireland.  They were very rare but 
are becoming very much in demand as a backyard or homestead cow.  I have 
about 30 cows and 3 bulls.
I haven't updated my blog for months.  Just too much to do.  I'll try to get 
some garden pictures on there pretty soon.

Margaret
http://farfarawayfarm.blogspot.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
To: "Seed Keepers" <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] Seedkeepers list


> Margaret L. Wilson wrote:
> > Still here, just up to my ears, trying to get the pastures overseeded, 
> > seeds
> > started, sheep sheared, excess animals sold, fences repaired and the 
> > cottage
> > finished so we have a better place to live.  Sometimes the value really 
> > is
> > in the land, LOL, that means the house isn't livable.
>
> Far out Margaret. Is that a buffalo in one of the pix? The landscape looks 
> nice.
> I like wide open spaces; could probably easily adjust to terrain like that 
> in your pix.
> Are you in Montana, Idaho?
>
> LL
>
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