Welcome to the farm!

Jordan and Maia here, pro wwoofers now on the web!

After three awesome weeks we have officially adjusted to the farm lifestyle. So much so, that upon waking up this morning in Portland, we realized how excited we were to return! Heritage Meadows is a 40 acre organic farm in southwest Oregon near Grants Pass. We have a 2 acre garden where we grow a wide variety of vegetables: lettuce, corn, squash, onions, broccoli, kale, to name a few. We also have a greenhouse where we grow delicious basil, cucumbers, tomatoes, and work on seeding new plants. The farm is also home to a herd of icelandic sheep, chickens, cows, two llamas (cocoa and killer), two rams (bam-bam and buck), two cunning cats (furball, a.k.a alex, and simba), and last but definitely not least pixie, the chicken herding farm dog. As professional wwoofers, we have many different jobs to complete throughout the week. The farm provides fresh produce for a few restaurants in town and also has a CSA, so a few days a week are spent harvesting early in the morning. This includes picking, washing, spinning, drying, bagging, and delivering. Every morning after waking up to the sounds of chicken squawking and sheep escaping, we start off by watering the greenhouse and feeding the chickens (and the "baby" chicks). On the days we don't harvest, we weed, we plant, we weed, we build things, we fix things, we weed, we go on adventures to the river, we play cards, we make huge salads, we make delicious orange marmalade, cook up some fresh veggies, serenade buck and killer with guitar balads from up in the barn loft, and we weed. In short, farming is the stuff of life. It's great fun, hard work, makes you feel good, and means you eat well.

Team WWOOF has sadly lost half of its members, the Canadians, Tom and Madison. We will miss them dearly. Below are a few pictures documenting the good times, or actually just one morning we shared harvesting.