Tag: farm family

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.

Regenerative farming: 20 years wrong about the soil

Carston with one of our young lambs. Growing up regenerative native.

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.

Peace & Chaos: A First Memory That Built a Farm

Around age two. Right about the time that field and that barn got locked in.

A full circle moment as Jeana and I pose with our High School FFA teacher (Mr. Pile), his wife and her mother.

Years to Yes: A Valentine’s Love Story

A full circle moment as Jeana and I pose with our High School FFA teacher, his wife and her mother.

A full circle moment as Jeana and I pose with our High School FFA teacher (Mr. Pile), his wife and her mother.