About Us & FAQ
Created by Lauren on 27 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
About Us & FAQ
About Us
We are Lauren & Garth. We live on Bainbridge Island, a 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle, and we are trying to learn how to have a farm.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our geologist friend, vintner, and fellow (more successful) farmer Scott (who farms and … vintns? … with his wife Kate, who runs their local co-op, but is not a geologist) wrote us a long email about how we can be sure that our stone is a dropstone, and didn’t arrive in some other manner. He concluded that he is very confident that ours is a dropstone — confident enough for us to buy the domain name. I will get his permission to post excerpts of the email.
Our house came with several established trees: two apple trees, a pear tree, and an Italian prune tree. We also have a small fig tree and two small Meyer lemon trees, all still in pots. Someday we hope to have more fruit and nut trees.
Really, there aren’t many things that we don’t like to eat, so we’ll try whatever we can get to grow here.
It is very important to us not to be dependent on food systems (US and world) that we think are unstable, unsustainable, and unhealthy. In that sense, it’s a profoundly political and subversive action.
And it is emotionally and personally meaningful to walk out to the garden, ten (or fewer) yards away, to pick the foods that we will eat for our meal in a few minutes.
Also, garden-grown food is more delicious!! and we love eating delicious foods.
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You guys are the best! I love reading about your adventures in planting – please keep us up to date. Our house (which you are so totally invited to come and visit us at whenever your can!) has lots of shade, so I’ve been looking up shade tolerant vegetables to plant around the house. So far (before the looking up) I’ve got raspberries, strawberries, grapevines (two, new this spring) and potatoes. I’m trying for the what, 5th year in a row, to grow tomatoes. I do not have high hopes.
What I’ve learned is that peas, beans, lettuces, and rhubarb (plus a bunch of stuff I don’t want to plan) will all do ok in partial shade. I really want to move my blueberry bushes to a spot with more sun, but Joe likes the St John’s Wort that grows there….
Lauren! – France was fun but brief. I did much better in Spain, simply because I know the language better. All in all a great trip.
I would LOVE for you guys to come down and see us (the cat would not love the dogs to come, however…we’ll have to strategize about that part).
hugs etc – Bonnie
dahlinks,
what a lovely website and one that i will come back to. i can personally attest to the delight of growing one’s own. my soon-to-be-ex sister-in-law does a masterful job at this and we will miss her salads. looks like that self-aware rooster made its way to Garth’s shoulder after all. m
It’s a small farm, but a mighty one! I miss all our days with the horses, goats, cattle, and chickens we had in Reno. I also miss my Dad’s ever-present garden. Of course, I didn’t appreciate it at the time. Maybe some of that grass in my front yard needs to be removed in favor of more productive planting…
Peggy
Ummm… I just asked my husband how much our wonderful chickens from you cost, and he said he didn’t know. He doesn’t think he paid you when he picked them up!!! Could this be? Please let us know so that we can get money to you!
Best wishes,
Laurel Powell