Walking Water Ranch lamb is now being sold at the Kirkland Wednesday market at the Okanogan Harvest booth. Currently we are completely sold out of meat. Okanogan Harvest will have some lamb meat to sell at the market in August and we are taking orders for September through December processing. Whole lamb order: processed to [...]
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No more whining about the cold and snow. It is spring at last. Ok, so yesterday was spring. Now it’s summer. Yep, that is how long spring lasts here in the Okanogan highlands. One day it’s cold and snowy, then poof – summer is in full bloom. Our garden is planted and the sheep are [...]
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I would like to introduce one of our farm’s ewes. Malty is the Grand-Dam of our flock. She was one of the first sheep ever brought to Walking Water Ranch. Being chocolate brown, she is an unusual color for a Katahdin. Her coloring suits her personality. She is truly a black sheep in our flock [...]
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Our family has been enjoying all the snow sports that winter brings and having a grand time skiing at our local hill – Sitzmark. The two boys are quite the skiers and are due to race this next weekend. This will be our 4 year old’s first race ever. While we have set aside the time [...]
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We recently attended our first meet & greet with the Seattle Chef’s Collaborative. We were bit apprehensive and really didn’t know what to expect. This particular meet & greet was held at the FareStart Restaurant and the theme was about distributing extra food resources from the food service industry to the needy and homeless. While [...]
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After the initial application process is completed – basically it is simply your intent to enter the program. Then the next step is to determine which program would work best for your particular situation and to evaluate the scope of work. This process involves an on site visit from one of the NRCS personnel. Our plans [...]
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Late summer and the heat is here with a vengeance! Temperatures down in the valley are reaching 109 and here on the ranch it is a throbbing 93 in the shade. The saving grace is the constant light breeze and theoh so pleasant lake just down the road. After a long hot day working on the [...]
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I was recently invited to go picking service berries with some friends. Not wanting to show my ignorance and always pleased to learn some wild craft I readily agreed. It was a lovely day and I was able to get plenty of information regarding the storing and preserving of the little berry from the other [...]
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Ok, so not so hot tonight, but it sure was a few nights ago. The Cayuse Mountain outside our front door was on fire. The fire started several miles away and at first I was only concerned for our friends and neighbors in the area. Sustained 20 mph winds and gusts over 60 mph sent [...]
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We recently took a trip to the Seattle/Tacoma to explore some marketing options. We are new at this marketing game and were hesitant to invest heavily in growing our farm too fast if there really wasn’t a customer base to support the growth. So we sent out some feelers and were exploring some options. We [...]
Filed under: breeding, farm, Katahdin, Ranch work, Sheep, Washington | Tagged: confirmation, customer, ewe, flock, genetics, growth, mothering, ram, records, registered, twins | 3 Comments »
