What Ya Growing? - Oregon

Here we are, Oregon. Look at this turnout. Look at these people, very excited to be growing their own food. Are y'all excited?

Yes!

Oh, now come on, Washington was louder for sure. Come on now, are you excited, Oregon? Okay, there we go. All right, let's find out what these people's names are, where they're from, and what they're growing.

Sarah McCraw, and this is my mom Diane. And we have Nigerian dwarf goats and chickens and garlic and garlic, and we're working on fruit trees and other vegetables.

Okay, good for you guys working together.

Just over 3/4 of an acre.

You want to say what your name is?

Faye.

Faye. And what are you growing, Faye?

Washington. We're growing chickens and cabbage and zucchini and squash. Yeah, we had baby chicks hatch out on Monday. Oh, cool! Congratulations!

Cabbages! Now what's a good farmer supposed to do with a good-looking cabbage?

Eat it!

Oh, okay, but before you eat it, kiss it! That's right, kiss it! Good job!

I'm Audrey Neufeld.

I'm Ken.

And we have just under 8 acres, and we have a Nigerian dwarf herd of goats, chickens, and we have a garden and orchard. Hi, I'm Hannah and this is my mom Barbara. And my husband and I live in Southeast Portland and we're renting, but we still have chickens and we're growing vegetables as well and working on compost pile.

Hey, I'm Chris, I'm from Eugene, Oregon, and I focus on super hot peppers. Okay, you like to eat those hot peppers? No, I don't. Okay, but who likes to eat those hot peppers? I like mixing it with like honey and then sharing, you know, things out and just, it's just making things and getting creative. Okay. Hi, I'm I'm Enoch Graham. I am from Southern Oregon. I do a bunch of small space gardening and I feature that on YouTube myself. We do rooftop gardening. I have a pepper garden on the carport rooftop. I grow out of my alleyway all sorts of different vegetables, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn, you name it, we try to grow it. Okay, excellent. Am I in the video? I'm in this? I'm in the movie? Okay, good job. Tell everybody what your channel is. The channel is The Urban Gardener, so youtube.com/c/TheUrbanGardener. Okay, nice. Thank you.

I'm Bobbi Lee and my husband Philip Lee can't be here with us, but we're from Salem, Oregon, and we're growing chickens. We have a big garden— tomatoes, peppers, peas, raspberries, blueberries, all kinds of— lots of stuff. Yeah, lots of stuff. And next year, through your vlogs, it's gonna be even bigger.

Okay, good.

Excited about that. This is my daughter. Okay, I'm Tanya Koba, and this is my husband Roman Koba and Vince. We are from Salem and we're growing a chidler. And we live in an apartment currently, so we— you're using a friend's property to grow our own garden this year, and it's working out really well.

Good for you.

So we're growing a wide variety of vegetables, just the basic stuff.

Cool. You didn't have the land, so you borrowed some.

Yep.

Good job.

93-year-old friend.

Oh, sweet.

So he needs some help and I bet he's tickled. Oh yeah, he sure is.

Okay, good.

He's a real sweet guy. Hi, I'm Danielle from Holmes Homestead. I live in Noti, Oregon, and we are just starting our homestead. So we have chickens, we're growing our fall crop now of spinach, lettuce, and carrots. We also have grapes and blueberries, and then we grow chitlers too.

And you grow some chitlers too?

We've got a few of them, we've got 3. My name is Wyatt Pierce, my wife Chelsea, this is Ariana. Sydney and Carter. We're from Terrebonne, Oregon. We've got Get To Farm. We don't have a YouTube channel. We've got chickens and ducks. We've got an Alpine cross small herd of goats, and we've got, we've got lots of vegetables, some berries, some orchard that's continuing to grow, and just a little bit of everything.

Hi, I'm Vivian and this is Mark Frederick, and we live in Sweet Home, Oregon, and oh geez, we grow a lot of stuff. We have a 36-foot circular garden in our little quarter acre that's growing tomatoes, squashes, all kinds of broccoli, kale, asparagus.

8 different types of fruit trees, Muscovy ducks, chickens.

And yeah.

Why a circular garden?

Because nature doesn't grow in straight lines and it doesn't drive me as nuts in a circular garden if everything's not straight.

Yeah, it looks nice.

Yeah, so it just does its own thing and I can let it do its own thing.

Okay.

Does it better.

Do your friends and family think you're nuts? Uh, no.

Oh, good. Not for gardening.

They actually vacation up at our property because they like it so much. Hi, I'm Paula, and I'm going to be planting my urban garden dreams in Corvallis in January.

Oh, cool.

Very excited.

Coming up.

Yes.

You're going to live the dream.

Hi, I'm Nicole. This is Aaron, Noel, and Emma, and we're from Mill City.

We're growing a little bit of everything.

This year our big thing's First time we've done meat birds, so we raised about 260 chickens, and Saturday we're gonna butcher our last 100 and be done with it for the year. So you already butchered 160 of them? We have, yeah. You're gonna do it again next year? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so it wasn't that bad. No, not, not bad at all. Hi, my name is Chad and this is Reese. We're growing apples, pears, peaches, plums, raspberries, pumpkins, and we have a vegetable garden too. You want to tell them about the animals?

Um, turkeys and chickens and pigs and rabbits. Rabbits.

Cats and dogs. Cats and dogs. Okay. Hey, who's this superhero?

What's your name?

I am Adam. This is my son Adam, Jace, my wife Bria, and I'm Joe. And we live in Canby, Oregon, and she will tell you what we're growing.

We're growing carrots, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, onions, trying some new things, spinach, trying to do more kale, an orchard. We're getting there slowly but surely.

Adam, do you like those Brussels sprouts?

We have some chickens too, don't we?

Dad's saying, say yes, say yes.

Yes.

Do they eat the Brussels sprouts? For the most part, yeah. Okay, how do you get the kids to eat the vegetables? Lots of butter. Yeah, it's a fight. Good. I'm Dennis and this is my wife Lynn. Right now the only thing we're growing is grandkids, but we're, uh, we live in a Bluebird bus like you guys are traveling in, and we're looking for another, uh, homestead.

Looking for a little, little land to grow some more chickens and veggies.

Well, best of luck, guys, in your search. Thanks. I'm Daisy. I live in Lebanon, and what I'm growing: blueberries, asparagus, rhubarb, anything that will grow in a pot and be happy so I can move it when I find property. Oh, good for you, not letting nothing stop you. Nope. Good.

Hi, I'm Daniel from In Time Country Living, and I live here in Hawley, Oregon. And I grow all kinds of stuff like fruit trees and things like apples, pears, prunes, quince, figs, all kinds of stuff here. And also grow a full vegetable garden for providing for our family and learning how to grow things like dry beans that we can store over the winter, butternut squash, and variety of crops that we can provide for my family. Over the winter and the spring for the rest of the year.

I'm Jim.

I'm Rinda.

We are from Sweet Home and we're growing a YouTube channel called Hardiness Approach. Also, some, uh, we raise chicken eggs, chicken meat, turkey meat, and lots of vegetables.

Hello, I'm Diane Eisenhardt. I live in Coquille, Oregon, and I have pigs and chickens and sheep and goats. And I'm just kind of starting out a homestead.

We're Brian and Crystal, Josiah and Timothy Wright. Right now we're mostly growing blackberries and two little boys, but, uh, got some fruit trees in and trying to ever increase our garden, trying to figure it all out.

And we have goats and chickens.

Goats and chickens.

Yeah. Okay, right on.

Hi, I'm Colleen Mulberry from Chitwood, Oregon, and I've been homesteading for about 60 or more years, and I have chickens and rabbits and 5 kinds of berries and honeybees and an orchard, and that's about it. Oh, a big garden.

Hi, we're Dan and Jean Wright, and we live in Salem, and we have a couple of acres up there where we grow chickens and sheep and vegetables and some fruit. That's pretty much it.

Are you all together? Yeah, we're all together. Okay, last but not least here. So this is Wade. Elsa, Lucia, and Tate. This is my wife Teresa, and I'm Trent. Yeah, beautiful dress there. Thank you for dressing up. Uh, we live in Salem, and we just have chickens and a garden, and we're building a tiny house. All right, cool, cool folks here. Cool folks here. Look, look what's happening. Everybody's starting to mingle. Everybody's starting to make friends. Oregon I'm proud of you guys. Give yourself a round of applause.