Good Rain Farm

08/27/2026

Quick! Reserve your spot in our Art of Seed Saving Workshop & Farm Tour! this Saturday, August 28th! 9am-1pm we'll beat the heat, explore and see and get our hands into seed saving!!! Please come hang out with me and partake in my obsession! 💕

08/26/2026

10 min is long, I know. But I wanted to share family lore and this very exciting expansion on the riparian habitat restoration project. It's almost an acre in total. It'll be habitat restoration, honoring and embracing this little ephemeral creek that I swear will become a full year round creek!

The video includes musings on Remembrance and what it means to be woven into memory. This land holds memory, this creek is alive and insists on being known. I'll call it We are still here creek: Púti kwu aláʔ. My ancestry, ancient and newly realized remind me that we can respect and rediscover; erasure isn't an option only an illusion. plus props to Grandpa for discovering Pi proof that the person to trademark π, to publish it, to claim it was likely not the only one or the first one. just the one society was willing to listen too. We all have the ability to observe our world and come up with quantum physics... it just might not interest us all. for instance, I am enthralled by the amazing cell division that leads tiny seeds to form into giant herbaceous plants as my great interest. what is your brilliance?

08/25/2026

Just trying to enjoy the breeze and bird songs and this little doggy waggy will not quit. My pants are drenched in drool. I do not throw sticks because I have seen gnarly injuries and Gem-bow is injury prone 🤕 so we do not tempt fait in this household least we forget he tore his dewclaw off just playing by himself or that time he broke his pinkie toe chasing a ball on a grass, fairly level field 🙃🫠

08/24/2026

A little snippet from my hands on experiential learning with James our Oregon Farm Corps Apprentice. It's that time of year where we are adding seed saving to the plethora of activities.

🫘 Join me this coming Saturday August 29th for our Art of Seed Saving Farm Tour and workshop! You'll get this and so much more!

08/19/2026

Harvesting, smelling nice and learning.

08/18/2026

ISO: Coconspirators, collaborators, accomplices.

As we navigate life I need a little support which as it turns out looks like me offering support. As I continue to establish and invest in our forever farms infrastructure other components of the property lay fallow. Not a bad thing, it's good for it to rest but fallow also doesn't mean sterile.

This farming endeavor was also never supposed to be a sole propitorship activity - from it's very inception I had dreamed of a worker co-op. However my fortitude and determination to not give up the farm and it's mission & vision (continues to be unique within the industry and our geography) has left only me standing.

There is privilege in being to underpay myself and to invest a TON of sweat equity into the farm project and it was not without sacrifice. This level of dedication has proven to be difficult to find elsewhere- some people have it, others don't - at least for this, here and now.

Understanding the realities we live in, I have struggled to figure out how to convert this farm into a worker ownership model currently. But that doesn't mean I can't engage in collaboration.

This land can support additional activities and build a little community of agronomists. The property does not have water rights, all our water is from rainwater harvesting and municipal. Keep this in mind when reaching out and considering if this is a suitable situation for you. "Rent" is a funny word these days but if you use utilities and facilities some sort of value will likely need to be exchanged - this is to help cover wear & tear improvement and repair (filling in muddy ruts, installing ballards so we don't run into electrical panels, w**d whacking and mowing shared access space) fixing property line fences and electric and water that are charged by consumption. I am very transparent with my finances - our property has entered a conservation property tax deferred program and my mortgage is $1,125.

07/30/2026

Come save seed with me! this coming Saturday August 8th I am hosting the second art of seed saving workshop at the farm 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. it includes a farm tour you get a Zine you get to take home some seed and you learn a whole bunch of information that I am so stoked to share with you! Just knowing how to save seed even if you are actively saving seed is so important it's so important that we have people who embody and carry this knowledge forward who can share random facts with their friends and answer trivia questions at the bar. So sign up meet some friends and hang out with your farmer! I hope to see you there! 🔗 In bio

07/29/2026

07/24/2026

Our AC fighting for it's life. Anyone have and can install a mini split? 💕🌱 Your farmer 🥵

07/23/2026

Gem the Farm dog isn't 100% a tax write off. He's also not 100% a pet. But mostly a pet, let's be real. 🐶

Gem is not an excessive barking but certainly barks to let us know when someone is coming up the drive or there are coyotes out in the field. I have no doubt his scent keeps the coyotes weary of our livestock and land in general. He's also not bashful about pest management having helped catch moles, field mice and ground squirrels. 🐿️

Gem likes bird watching and balls - balls are life. And when I am doing an easy series of tasks that I can quickly disengage from like removing the flower buds from amaranth or any other young crop, I bring Gem along for a mid day sniff. We do morning and evening patrols (chuck-its) also.

We've been passively training to stay boundaried with crop producing fields. He did this naturally, with ease and then I made him repeat his actions for this video. Food Safety is a significant concern of mine. It's a significant reason I ended up farming in the first place. Nobody wants to eat lettuce greens my dog p*ed or p**ped in, on, near. I can't lie to myself or guarantee I am watching him to notice and flag those restroom breaks. So it's just easier to keep this particular activity black and white. No dogs in the fields. ✔️

Animals - especially working livestock are integral to a healthy farm. Horses, cows, dogs. Certain precautions are often taken with horses & cows (they wear p**p 💩 bags) and where they p*e should be watered down immediately and flagged so that during an upcoming harvest crops in a designated up splash zone can be avoided. Dogs that can sniff out and alert us to high traffic rodent activity are super helpful and tell us where to place traps and put our effort.

Gem isn't 'trained' for any particular activity and definitely wasn't bred for livestock guardianship (says the poor ducking that got scooped up in his mouth - they were unharmed!)

What about wild animals?! Yea- if we see p**p from any species we are discerning and flag those and don't harvest contaminated foods. We wash nearly all our produce in accordance with FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act) standards before we deliver it to yo