Hello from Oregon!

Hello!
My name is Samantha and I have 6 acres in lebanon , OR. We're The Laughing Forest farm and Nursery. Our focus for the nursery is on native and other edibles that work in our area and heirloom plants/trees. We got sidetracked for a bit with embedding edible flowers and herbs in candy and selling on Etsy and wholesale and it was a blast but the time commitment ( I also work a full time job) became crazy and the growth of our farm/nursery business suffered, and the overhead to run a commercial kitchen became problematic!
We are now focusing solely on planting out the orchard , 'tea garden' and woods with edible perennials and trees, and foregoing our farmers market booth in Corvallis for at least a year or 2.
As I research and look for answers to the many questions that pop up I often read through the conversations on this site and gain valuable , 'real world' knowledge from the many experienced people that engage on this site, so I finally subscribed!
Anyone else in my area?

Hi there! I’m about an hour south of you towards Veneta. New to this site which I ran across doing some textile research. My day job is in the native plant world. My other hours are taken up through my fiber farm and contract grazing. Nice to meet you here!

Hi Sam,

My wife and I just moved up to the Willamette Valley after homesteading the last few years on 5 acres in the mountains east of San Diego. Water availability and fires got to be a little too tough to handle down there, which was our motivation for moving. We're renting in Philomath right now and searching for property -- the eventual goal is a Mark Shepard style food forest focusing on chestnuts, hazelnuts, and wine grapes. We're trying to connect to like minded people in the area since we don't know anyone at the moment! Would love to hear more about your operation.

Cheers,
Andrew

Hello!

Our family "farm" is up the McKenzie River in the Southern Willamette Valley.  Grown there my lifelong.
There are many folks here of four generations, and I am the guy mainly interested in agriculture projects.
Trying out lots of different species of food and medicinal trees in food-foresty type situations.

My first round of edible chestnuts are about 8 years old, and they grow very well (with almost no irrigation and heavy horse-browsing), though only a few have born nuts so far.
Quinciquently, we put in another block of 25 Chestnuts 3 years ago to hopefully do something larger-scale in the next decades.

I am very interested in Natives and their ethnobotanical uses, as well as healing herbs, and coppice/pollard methods.
I don't go visit people, or have people over, or stuff like that, but I'm glad there's other peoples out there doing awesome stuff so close to me.

Anyway Hi- bye- I do like this place alot.
-George


P.S.  Thanks to Paul and all the crew who make this site possible.