Re: Fw: Veggie Intro #2

Well, your place sounds beautiful!  All those roses, trees, and SHEEP!  

I live in an urban area--an old suburb of Los Angeles--near the freeway!!!
But that's what made it affordable for us.  We have some citrus trees and a
few roses and camellias...but no sheep.  

Kristie
>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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