Winter Weather on Chehalem Mountains | The Springtime Cometh? In January and February 2023 we experienced normal Oregon winter weather. Rain and moderate temperatures with some stretches of dry days – enough to get the vineyards pruned. For some reason, we always seem to get a break in February and think that winter is subsiding and spring is here. This … Read More
A Pet Story | Our Pets Contributed to Three Feathers
A Pet Story | Homage to our Pets Text by Christine Stimac, photos © Elise Prudhomme A Pet Story tells about how our pets contributed to Three Feathers by protecting the farm and keeping out wildlife. Today, our two dogs and four cats have all gone. The dogs were fourteen and seventeen when they passed away and the last cat … Read More
Living with the Wildlife | Part 2
Living with the Wildlife | Part 2 Three Feathers is blessed with an abundance of water. We have two, year-round springs on the property. The main spring fills the man-made two acre lake that is used to irrigate during dry summers. We also use it for recreation after long days of hot work haying or working on the vines. The … Read More
2018 Vineyard Grower’s Update
2018 Vineyard Grower’s Update The 2018 season in the vineyard began with pruning in early February. The winter was cool and dry punctuated with rainy periods, but not characteristically wet. Even spring was not very wet despite lingering cool temps and Bud Break was a month later than last year, on May 2. Once the plants started growing it was … Read More
Living with the Wildlife
Living with the Wildlife Our Ford F-150 gets a lot of use during the growing season, but when it is idle, it is parked in a dry spot by our goat barn. Last summer we noticed an odor inside the cab; a faint odor of manure. We checked our shoes, nothing. As the odor persisted we looked further, under and … Read More