Sunday, March 30, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Farm out Friends build bee boxes!
Building Bee boxes.
Lynne and Zack putting together a box
Craig, Arlee and Lynne hard at work
not bad for a days work!
Farm out Fun! every Sunday at 1:00!
Farm Out!
Young People Experience Farm Activities in the Dike lands!
Melanie and Craig Hudson moved to Clatskanie several years ago and their son started school at Clatskanie Middle/High not long afterward. It wasn't long before a troop of active teens were frequent visitors to their small 2 ½ acre farm where they raise chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and Nubian goats for dairy products. The Hudsons were frequent visitors to the MacGregor farm where they got one of their dairy goats. When the MacGregors needed help last summer baling hay, Melanie showed up with a group of local youngsters who helped buck over two hundred bales just before it started to rain! “Had it not been for Melanie and those kids we would have lost most of our years supply of hay! It would have been devastating for us!” said Tracy Prescott-MacGregor. It wasn't long before these kids were out helping tattoo, clip goat hooves, deworm and milk goats. One day Prescott-MacGregor and Hudson realized that this was a great resource and these kids were genuinely interested and wanted to part of the thriving farm life out here in the dike lands near Port Westward so they decided to formalize the group.
The mission was decided. The goal of Farm Out is to connect younger Clatskanites to the farm lifestyle and to help them appreciate the land that produces the food we eat and connect them with nature, all while having fun! They had a meeting with the core group of 10 young people aged 15-21 and talked about things they would like to do around the area. Ideas ranged from picking blueberries at Poysky's Blueberry farm and canning them as jam, to river bank clean up, to water and soil testing.
Craig Hudson is a beekeeper so it naturally followed that the first project was to build 15 bee boxes. It was a major success. All 15 boxes were constructed on a Sunday afternoon and now the next step is to paint them.
The group meets every Sunday.
Other projects scheduled for the group:
Processing Honey
Making things with beeswax (candles
etc...)
Milk goats
Picking berries and making jam
Make Mozzarella cheese
River bank clean up
Build a bird house
Build a bat house
Press apples for juice
Bird watching and identification
Plant a large garden
Harvest veggies and preserve them
Camp out on a farm
Design and make T-shirts
Make scare crows
Learn Pacific Northwest Native American
crafts of weaving and bent box
Stream work-water and soil testing.
The Group is open to all who want to participate. There are no fees. For more information call Melanie Hudson at 503-709-7801
Young People Experience Farm Activities in the Dike lands!
Melanie and Craig Hudson moved to Clatskanie several years ago and their son started school at Clatskanie Middle/High not long afterward. It wasn't long before a troop of active teens were frequent visitors to their small 2 ½ acre farm where they raise chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and Nubian goats for dairy products. The Hudsons were frequent visitors to the MacGregor farm where they got one of their dairy goats. When the MacGregors needed help last summer baling hay, Melanie showed up with a group of local youngsters who helped buck over two hundred bales just before it started to rain! “Had it not been for Melanie and those kids we would have lost most of our years supply of hay! It would have been devastating for us!” said Tracy Prescott-MacGregor. It wasn't long before these kids were out helping tattoo, clip goat hooves, deworm and milk goats. One day Prescott-MacGregor and Hudson realized that this was a great resource and these kids were genuinely interested and wanted to part of the thriving farm life out here in the dike lands near Port Westward so they decided to formalize the group.
The mission was decided. The goal of Farm Out is to connect younger Clatskanites to the farm lifestyle and to help them appreciate the land that produces the food we eat and connect them with nature, all while having fun! They had a meeting with the core group of 10 young people aged 15-21 and talked about things they would like to do around the area. Ideas ranged from picking blueberries at Poysky's Blueberry farm and canning them as jam, to river bank clean up, to water and soil testing.
Craig Hudson is a beekeeper so it naturally followed that the first project was to build 15 bee boxes. It was a major success. All 15 boxes were constructed on a Sunday afternoon and now the next step is to paint them.
The group meets every Sunday.
Other projects scheduled for the group:
Processing Honey
Making things with beeswax (candles
etc...)
Milk goats
Picking berries and making jam
Make Mozzarella cheese
River bank clean up
Build a bird house
Build a bat house
Press apples for juice
Bird watching and identification
Plant a large garden
Harvest veggies and preserve them
Camp out on a farm
Design and make T-shirts
Make scare crows
Learn Pacific Northwest Native American
crafts of weaving and bent box
Stream work-water and soil testing.
The Group is open to all who want to participate. There are no fees. For more information call Melanie Hudson at 503-709-7801
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