Creviston Valley Farm

We finally make our way back onto a farm!  Creviston Valley Farm was certainly a different experience than any of our previous farms. This was our first farm where the owners had full time jobs off the farm - Lalaine runs a successful bed & breakfast in Gig Harbor and Greg has had a lucrative career selling life insurance. In their spare time they run a 45 acre farm raising cows, sheep, chickens, pigs, and a few goats. This can make it difficult to keep things going on the farm so it was fun to be able to lend a hand.

This was also the first place that we were not staying on the farm.  Lalaine had rented out the farm house to a young family with five daughters so we stayed at the B&B right on the water - pretty plush farm accommodations.  We enjoyed wonderful meals and great conversation on a daily basis.

On the farm we worked at a variety of different tasks.
     - Feeding the animals every morning
     - Herding the cows in when they get out the gate left open during morning feeding - oops!
     - Enhancing soil with mushroom compost
     - Harvesting eggs from the chickens
     - Burying baby piglets that don't make it :(
     - Corralling baby goat back in when he gets out under the fence, then fixing the fence
     - Castrating baby boy cow
     - Herding pigs into the trailer for transport to auction, then taking them to auction

Check out pics of our farm work HERE