Agritourism – Chelan Valley Farms

I Didn’t Grow Up on a Farm

2003. Dr. Joe Yenish, my major professor, and Jack. The bird hunting that wrecked my grades in 1997 is the same bird hunting I did with the man who ran my graduate program.

A, B, C, D, F. My worst semester at WSU, the letter that followed it, and the man who told me I wasn’t worth an internship because I didn’t grow up on a farm.

Caught in the Act: Tillage and Soil Health on Our Farm.

Chad and Carston Steiner with shovels in the freshly tilled pumpkin patch at Chelan Valley Farms, plastic mulch rows and the hills above Lake Chelan behind them

Chad and Carston Steiner with shovels in the freshly tilled pumpkin patch at Chelan Valley Farms, plastic mulch rows and the hills above Lake Chelan behind them.

A Saturday we didn’t want to end…

Jeana with our Fumé Blanc — the wine that got me thinking about place, soil, and why we applied.

We applied for organic certification this week — a label I’m honestly not a fan of. Here’s why we did it anyway, and what it has to do with the wine in your glass.

Regenerative Farming: The Carrot, Not the Stick

Jackson skipped out of school early for shearing day.

It’s 5:09 AM in Pullman. I have two ag degrees from WSU, decades in agriculture, and I still didn’t understand what was happening in our soil. Tonight my 15-year-old gets honored at State FFA for what I only recently figured out.