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.
