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Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
Produce farmer here in eastern WA, sell direct to the public without leaving the farm. Usually plant about 6 acres....all my wife and I can handle. Have a whole herd of AC tractors and do some custom work on the side.(quoted from post at 07:09:17 04/18/12) Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
Hal! You've been to my place....I hauled a Ford engine from Jim in UT for you a few years back.....(quoted from post at 10:26:42 04/18/12) Hi Eldon! What town do you live near? I am up SE of Spokane.
6 Acres of garden would be a lot of work! I don"t think I could possibly make a living on my property like that, due to a short growing season. I live at about 2500" elevation and ALWAYS have to plan on the possibility of frost in June and sometimes as early as the first week of September. I have a small garden by my house, but never sell any produce. I sometimes give some away. Where I live, it is imperative that a garden have at least a 6 foot mesh fence, or the deer will take everything. I have also recently had some trouble with rabbits, which apparently someone released a few years ago.
Good luck with your gardening. I admire anyone willing to work that hard!
(quoted from post at 17:07:29 04/18/12) OK, now I remember you. Did you have a different handle a few years ago? Thanks again for hauling that engine...I still have it in reserve, since my old original dieselengine just keeps on working.
About 60 years ago, my Dad had a chicken farm with several thousand layers and also did some truck gardening in the Greenacres area. My parents worked very hard at trying to farm, but didn"t have enough income from the farm to really "make it". My Dad worked at various other jobs and my Mom taught school some of the time to keep them going. Pretty rough times financially for my family. After about 10 years of trying, we moved off that acreage and lived in the more urban area of old Greenacres. In 1959, my Parents were able to buy the small ranch South of the Valley, and I finished growing up there. I still live on 20 acres of that property.
When I was a little kid, there were large gardens all over the Spokane Valley. Gardens did very well there, and there was a well developed ditch water system that brought water from Liberty and Newman Lakes to many areas of the eastern part of the valley. But with many people gardening in that area, I suppose that selling produce was a problem, since everybody had some. The gardens we had were really incredibly productive.
Later the ditch water systems were all removed and pressurized piped water became what was available for irrigation. And more and more areas of the Valley became filled with houses, instead of gardens or orchards. It is a real shame that this incredibly productive farming area is now wasted on suburban housing. But that is the way it is.
I still think that 6 acres of garden is a whole lot of garden! It would be really hard to keep ahead of the weeds in that big of a plot. I sure hate Morning Glory!
One last thing. Lots of the Eastern part of the Valley had apple orchards on it years ago. In those days they used sprays that included arsenic and other heavy metals to control insects that bothered apples. Unlike the organic sprays that came later, the heavy metals tend not to break down over time. If your ground used to be an orchard, you might want to do soil tests to see if there are heavy metals there that might come back to cause you trouble in your for sale produce. Hope that concern is not a reality, and your gardens do great. Good to reconnect with you again. Hal.
(quoted from post at 07:09:17 04/18/12) Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
pretty much hobby farm for us. grandparents were "gentleman" farmer my grandpa worked for the power company and they used to have a small 10 cow dairy back in the late 40's/50's and grow some veggies on 55ac. then my dad got into beef and we still raise some beef herfords and belted galloway, square bale about 15ac keep enough for our use and sell some to horse people and we purchase some baleage for feed during the winter, used to grow some corn for silage but it got to be more of a hasel than it was worth. i also started a small maple sugaring operation which besides running equipment/tractors is my favorite "hobby". my wife and i live off the farm on 2ac and grow a large garden and raise a few hens/meat birds for her ethnic employees. i worked full time for the phone company for 13yrs then they thought its time to cut some heads so last in 1st out union rules i got the boot. now i'm splitting time between electrical work, milking/cropwork for a dairy and our hobby farm. we use alot of older equipment but have 1 newer 15yr old tractor and we still have the original tractor grandpa purchased an old jd h hand start.(quoted from post at 07:09:17 04/18/12) Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
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