Fw: Veggie Intro #2

I'm new to this list too. 

I live an hour from Portland, Oregon USA.  Things turned very cold
just before Christmas down to 10 degrees f.  which is not so common
for us. It was our first good frost which usually comes in late
October, so Winter is upon us. This coming Spring I will be adding a
vegetable garden and hope to raise mostly heirloom varieties and do
some seed saving which I have never done. 

We recently move here (just 20 minutes from old time home) and build
our country home on our 21 acres. I raise sheep on 1/2 our land of
old pastures, and my husband tends a new Douglas fir stand on the
rest.  Husband also planted his first 1/4 acre crop of Ginseng this
fall and just last Spring we planted my new rose garden (70x50 feet)
with 100 English and Old roses and a few fruit trees, which also
serves as our "landscaping" and "yard".  I grew sick of cutting lawn
at the old home, and now the sheep can roam about and mow for us,
excluded from only the Roses, Gensing and soon veggies. 

We have two teen age boys still living at home, and they have been of
great help as we put this all together from scratch. Husband still
has a day job, and I've resently been "retired" from 12 years of
home-schooling our children, so lots more time for gardening
creations.

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
Rainier, Oregon  ~ Zone 8
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