Plain Old Farm

Greetings and welcome!

Plain Old Farm began as a 1 1/2 acre organic family farm on an island in Washington. It was farmed by us, and occasionally by or with others from our community. One year our friends at the Journey School Food Community farmed most of this land for their 30 member CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

Our flock of seven hens -- and ourselves! -- enjoyed free-ranging the farm. We all delighted in working with this delicious land and the generous plants that are growing here.

Currently we "kitchen garden" in our suburban backyard in California. Our seramas (miniature chickens) forage the yard, and we enjoy greens and herbs year-round.

We've purchased new farm land in the Pacific Northwest, and are in the process of building a passive solar home there. Sometime later this year we hope to return to farming, full-blown chicken-raising, and semi-homesteading on our new Plain Old Farm.

In these photos, it's late spring of '07 on the farm. Here, a broadfork takes its ease beside a lovely and delicious kale forest.

Below, we find young chickens in Sunbalm Castle. Journey School raised 50 chickens for a Lavendar Farm Tour feast which was held a month after these photos were taken. Six of these chickens survived to become ours. Could these chicks in the picture be ours as youth? Snowneck on the right? Read more about our chickens.