We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends!

What a great story we have! Pictured above is Norm Phillips who lived and farmed at our newly acquired farm for 25 years with is wife and son. You can see him on his tractor on the top two pictures working the ground which we have now inherited and which we are running our pigs on. We are lucky in that Norm is now our neighbor and has been very helpful in showing us all about his former homestead. This knowledge has included giving us information about all the fruit trees and varieties of grapes he planted in his vineyard to helping us last year to get our irrigation pump set up in the river. Few new property owners are so lucky as to get the same opportunity we have been given! Norm routinely drops by to see how things are going on his old farm and every time he drops by he seems to get involved in a project. Yesterday he offered to help us move the pigs down to the next section of field. He has expressed to us how happy it makes him to see the land being farmed again. Thanks for all your help Norm!