she purchased
her milking
shorthorn.
"He told me
how he had
recently
hitched up a
cow overnight because his friend would
be heading east to pick her up early the
following day. By morning the cow was
tangled in the rope and had strangled
herself to death. Ninety years old and still
learning what not to do. The phrase he
used rings often in my head: when you've
got livestock, you've got deadstock. We all
know the heartbreak there."
Proceeds from book sales are donated back
to the Sno-Valley Tilth, an organization and
community of local farmers.
With summer just around the corner
consider a Farm to Table excursion to the
SnoValley Tilth Table to Farm Summer
Dinner Series. SnoValley Tilth supports
organic and sustainable food production
practices in the Snoqualmie Valley via
public policy work, educational efforts, and
the Carnation Farmers Market. What better
way to support those initiatives than to eat
a delicious meal right on the farm, where
most of the meal ingredients will be grown
mere feet from the table!
For more information visit:
SnoValley Tilth.
