Meet the Team! It takes a team to make something as nuanced as Rainshadow Organics function like the smooth operating machine it is! This month, let's meet the team! Sarahlee, Farmer/Owner Where are you from? I've lived on the farm my entire life. Why Rainshadow? Because of the way this land
News from the Farm It's a beautiful day today on the farm and we are celebrating by getting our fruit block into the 25-acre. While it might sound like we are planting berries and an orchard, when we talk about fruit on this vegetable farm, we mean those plants whose "fruit" we eat, like
News from the Farm You know when you are watching the pot on the stove waiting for it to boil? (We all do it, even when we know we shouldn't!) And it starts to form bubbles on the bottom and then begins to vibrate right before it blows up into a full on boil?
What is community? At its simplest, Community is a group, large or small, of folks that you share a feeling of fellowship with. It is a group with common interests, attitudes, goals, ideas, etc. For us, community is the sense of gathering around and sharing an experience formed from regeneratively grown meats, grains, and
This month is the halfway point of our CSA! Can you believe it, we are at the halfway point of our CSA. Four months in and 3 more after that. Thank you for sharing your winter with us and letting us nourish you this winter! It is our pleasure and we feel so privileged
The three Cs of a Rainshadow Organics CSA At Rainshadow we honor our commitment to farming and to community through our CSA programs that give you a choice in what and how you feed your family. As farmers in Central Oregon we feel a commitment towards the land and all its community members: the microbes
photo credit: Melissa Harmon Our Farmer Apprentice ProgramThis time of year is full of excitement paired with a bit of unknown as we plan out our next season. You all know that feeling: what do we want to do and how are we going to get there? Right
News from the Farm The month of November is the true end of our growing season. On the Monday before Thanksgiving we harvest our last crop of the year, our heritage turkeys. It is a sad, glorious, reverential day when, at the end of the day, we realize that, indeed, our growing and harvesting
Can we provide the nutrients needed to grow our crops 100% on farm? This season at the farm Simon spearheaded a project called Determining if Comfrey Fermented Plant Juice is a Viable Alternative to Traditional Purchased Fertilizers. We were able to fund this project through a grant received from SARE, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education,
What kind of squash is it? What do all these squash have in common? They are all spaghetti squash, we think. This is a great year if you like spaghetti squash: we had a banner year! But, there is something about this year's spaghetti squash though ... they
