Bountiful Life - February 2013

Volume I, Issue III

February 2013

Country Living In

The Inland Northwest

Inland Northwest Conservation Guide Controlling the Mud and Manure in Your Pastures Starting Seeds - Easy as ABC

Spinning, Knitting, Weaving and Crochet -The Paradise Fibers Story

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Dear Readers,

I must confess, as a non-knitter, I had no idea what to expect when my colleague and I decided we were going to interview Paradise Fibers for this month’s Home Grown Success Story. While I did raise lambs for a number of years in 4-H and FFA growing up, we never did anything with the raw fibers after slick shearing for the Jr. Livestock Show. Let me tell you, I was very pleasantly surprised. We learned a ton about yarn and fiber, spinning and weaving, knitting and crochet, and even some very interesting Spokane history. We had a great time visiting with the Romine Family and encourage all of you, whether you knit or not, to stop by their store. After such a great experience at Paradise Fibers we wanted to share the love of knitting and crochet with our readers, and so our multitalented Food Editor Ashley Lewan put together a beginner’s crochet project for a cute, ear warming headband. Check it out on page 22.

It won’t be long until we are turning our faces into the warm Spring sunshine. Take the time now to get those little inside tasks

done before we all rush outside at the first hint of green. I’m referring to the ones that you may have been putting off for weeks, like finishing that knitting project, starting garden seedlings, preparing your property for the rainy season, and taking the time to cook your favorite wintertime comfort foods. Bountiful Life is here to help you plan ahead to have a happy and productive homestead. Soon we will be in full swing for gardening season and these pasttimes will get pushed to the wayside. Enjoy them in the present and leap into Spring prepared and raring to go!

Until Next Time,

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Table of Contents Paradise Fibers and the Romine Family - Home Grown Success Story How this local yarn and fibers company got its start in the world ............................. 8 Starting Seeds – Easy as ABC Get your gardening fix by starting your seeds inside ........................................... 14 Livestock & Land versus Mud & Manure Reducing the mess and pollution from your paddocks......................................... 16 Chicken and Dumplings A hot and comforting recipe to warm you up after a hard day’s romp in the snow! .. 19 Inland Northwest Conservation Resource Guide A directory to the areas of expertise for local agencies and organizations .............. 20 Cozy Crochet Craft Simple steps to a cute, handmade headband that keeps the frost from biting. ......... 22

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Quantity of Seedlings Price (per bundle of 5) Austrian Pine Colorado Blue Spruce Concolor Fir Dawn Redwood Fraser Fir Grand Fir Rocky Mountain Juniper Subalpine Fir Western Red Cedar

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Paradise Fibers and the Romine Family

Your Neighbor’s Home Grown Success Story

By Chandra Logan

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aradise Fibers is a yarn and fiber company that will blow your mind. Whether you are a knitter or not, anyone that visits their store will be amazed by the sheer volume of brightly colored yarn adorning nearly every wall. The company is owned and operated by the Romine Family: husband and wife Bill and Laurel, and their son Travis and his wife Sara. The family and a troop of very knowledgeable employees all work together using their variety of talents to make the company hum like a well-oiled machine.

We arrived at Paradise Fibers bright and early on a sunny snowy day. Sara and her son George let us in as they were opening up the store, and Travis arrived shortly thereafter. While we let them get settled we perused the store front and looked up…up…UP at the innumerous shelves of yarn climbing all the way to the ceiling. The store reminded me of a library because of its rolling ladder to reach the tip tops of shelves. Travis, tall and fair haired, heartily shook our hands and took off on a tour of the maze that is the Paradise Fibers headquarters.

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We started in the store front with its gleaming hard wood floors and tall brick walls. Travis launched us into the long and detailed past of the building and brought history to life as we suddenly found ourselves standing in a giant brick oven! The building was once owned and operated as “The Brownie Baking Company.” During the 1960’s the bakery produced cookies for young women’s Brownie Troops both regionally and nationally. The main level which houses the store front for customers still has the remains of the great brick oven. The oven is no longer working, but customers can walk right in and admire the tremendous size of it.

Travis, Sara, and their son George in front of a small selection of the variety of yarns at Paradise Fibers

“Have you ever seen fiber from a yak?” he asked me, “This is from a yak in Mongolia.

How about a camel?”

Travis leads us through a rainbow of colored yarn and up a ramp to the back part of the store. Here there are totes and totes of raw fiber filling the shelves. He starts pulling down plastic totes from shelves on the walls and showing us their unique products. “Have you ever seen fiber from a yak?” he asked me, “This is from a yak in Mongolia.

How about a camel?” He let me handle the fibers as he explained that they are from a baby camel and resemble cashmere, and the texture is so soft and fine that it flows through my hands like water. There are wooden spinning wheels of different shapes and sizes lining the wall, and other primitive looking wooden tools that I have never seen before in every nook and cranny. Even farther back there is a sitting

area full of soft cushy chairs and couches. Travis explains that this is for customers to sit and knit or crochet, or to provide a place for their different classes to be held.

Next we travel upstairs to see the real nerve center of the operation.

We step into Travis’s office which houses around half a dozen computer monitors, and probably at least 5 times that many cords. Travis maintains the website from here as well as other functions of the store.

Next door is a small recording studio. That’s right, it surprised us too!

Travis has a love of music and records it in his studio when he finds the time. Across the hall is a full kitchen for the staff’s use and a laundry room for when they dye fibers. The kitchen is bright and contemporary, and has several vertical windows overlooking the Spokane cityscape. After the kitchen we move on to the back of the building that is

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a large and open ballroom. This is where Paradise Fibers has their camera and lighting equipment set up. They use this set up to photograph their products for the website. Travis also informs us that he and his wife Sara had their wedding reception up here. The last place we have yet to see of the building is the basement, and Travis warns us with a chuckle that it is a little scary as far as basements go. I’m looking forward to this, and I wasn’t disappointed.

The basement it seems, takes us even farther back in history. While it now holds even MORE inventory (if you can believe it!), it was once a stable or livery. You see, the old brick building was originally built in the very early 1900’s. Around 1909 it is on record that the building was the home of the WSU Veterinary Clinic. In one area of the basement there are parallel rows of heavy supporting beams on opposite sides of the room. These beams were intended to support stall walls and gates for horse stalls. In between these two rows at the other end of the great room is a door to a smaller concrete chamber that looks like a feed storage room. While there are obviously no horses or even stalls down here anymore, there is a mixture of both medieval and modern looking equipment. The area has been designated

as Bill’s work room. He uses the space to design spinning wheels for the store.

Now that we have had the tour, we all venture back upstairs to the kitchen for some hot mugs of coffee and a quiet place to sit and chat about the family and their own history. Bill joins us and we get to talking. Travis starts with the beginning of his life, when his parents Bill and Laurel were living in Pleasant Prairie, Washington. His life started in a rural and agricultural way. They had a family cow, among other animals, and they used the cow for their family’s milk, cream, and butter. It was simplicity in their life that Bill remembers fondly. “We may have to get a cow again,” Bill muses, “I do miss the fresh milk and butter.” They often shared the cow’s products with the neighbors, and those who knew about it could come and get the cream and butter out of their garage whenever they pleased.

Around 1909 it is on record that the building was the home of the WSU Veterinary Clinic, and was once a livery.

Soon the family moved to the Bay area in California for Bill’s job at the family machinery business. They wouldn’t return to the Inland Northwest until 1988 (Travis was now around 13 years old) when Bill became involved with the inception of the local TV Channel KSKN. The family settled here and grew up happily, and soon Travis went off to college to pursue a degree in marketing.

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During this time Bill’s wife Laurel and their daughter Rachel discovered a deep and passionate love for knitting and spinning fibers to produce yarn. One day Rachel went out to buy one sheep to fuel her devotion to yarn, and she came back with twenty! While they were all quite surprised then, they have a good laugh about it now.

As the family became even more deeply involved with fiber production, an inside joke soon arose that they would save more money if they just had their own fiber store. They made that thought a reality approximately 8 years ago when Bill and Laurel bought the company Paradise Fibers from a woman who had literally started it in her basement. They opened a store and enlisted Travis’s help to market the company and its products. The business soon expanded and a bigger location was needed.

Two years ago the family purchased the building that is the present location of Paradise Fibers at Washington and Indiana, right in the heart of Spokane. When they purchased the building, it was in rough shape. The building was rundown, the roof was near to falling in, and the inside was full of garbage, three dumpsters full to be exact. The family has done a very large amount of work to restore and renovate the building. Today you would never know the building was once in such dire condition. Thanks to all that hard work their enchanting store is now the perfect home to a massive inventory of yarn, fiber and affiliated products that they sell to customers all over the world.

While the company’s wide and diverse inventory is impressive to say the least, a small percentage of that inventory is grown by the Romine Family on their own farm. The same day they bought the company,

Travis teaching Chandra how to spin fibers into yarn on one of the many wheels available. He made it look so easy!

Bill and Laurel also closed the deal on their current home which is considered the family farm. They raise around 35 animals on their 5 acres, mostly sheep and chickens. The family enjoys fresh eggs from the chickens and raises the sheep for fiber, and will process a lamb for meat as needed. The sheep they raise on their farm are known as primitive breeds: Icelandic, Moorit, Columbia Cross, and Targhee.

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Starting Seeds Easy as ABC

By Tim Kohlhauff

G

rowing your garden from seed can be a rewarding and money saving way to go. It takes a little planning, and some space with plenty of light, but once you’ve got those, then you’re all set. Let’s take a look at the key elements of growing from seed: soil, light, water, containers and timing.

Soil is the foundation for all plants, so give them a good start. Rule number one is do not use garden soil to start seedlings. Garden soil may have weed seeds, insects and diseases, while seedlings don’t have the natural defenses that older plants do. Garden soil may also form a crust at the surface that can keep the seedlings from breaking through to the light.

What should you use? Look at your local garden center for good quality potting soil. While you don’t have to use a seedling mix, these do have smaller particles that are better for plants just getting started.

Avoid mixes that have large chunks of bark in them, as these don’t hold water well enough for seedlings. You want a mix that is about ½ or ¾ peat moss or coir (coconut fiber) and ¼ to ½ perlite or other material for drainage. Some greenhouses put a pinch of milled sphagnum moss on the top of the soil just for seedlings.

The type of containers you use isn’t as important as the soil. If you are reusing old pots or seedling trays (and why wouldn’t you?) make sure that they are clean and disease free by sterilizing them in a solution of 1 part bleach to 9 parts water for 10 minutes. Rinse and let them dry completely before using them.

Most seedlings are fine to start in small containers, but some plants don’t transplant well. Squash, melons, and cucumbers are vegetables

that don’t like having their roots disturbed. Flowers like poppies, nasturtiums and zinnias are the same.

There are even herbs that don’t like to be moved; these include dill, fennel and chervil. Check the seed package for more information.

Seedlings that don’t want to be moved can be started in larger containers, so you only have to transplant them once, when you put them in the garden. Peat pellets are an alternative to larger pots, but these tend to dry out, so keep an eye on them.

Have you grown seedlings that turned out spindly or leggy? If so, you’re not alone. Inadequate light is one of the most common problems seed growers have. You can use a sunny, south facing window, but non-gardening family members don’t always understand why we need to rearrange all our furniture to make more room for seeds. If this is true in your house, you might consider buying some fluorescent lights.

You can spend a lot of money on halogen lights, or full-spectrum bulbs and these do improve the quality of your plants. However, if you are just growing annuals to plant outside, standard fluorescents will do the job at a much lower cost. The trick with these is to keep the seedlings close to the light. The top of the plants should be 2-4” away, which may mean raising the lights every week or two, to keep them from burning leaves.

Most seeds prefer temperatures in the 70-75 degree range. Check your seed packet to verify if this is true of your seeds.

Check the temperature where you plan to grow, it’s often just right about 4-6” away from fluorescent lights, what a wonderful coincidence! If you are growing in a window with cold drafts, you might need a heat mat to keep plants warm. There are a variety of these available locally and online.

Watering your seeds is the easiest part, or is it?

You need to keep the soil moist, but not soggy. Too much water and your plants will rot. Not enough water and seedlings will die very quickly, so check them daily. If possible, water plants from the bottom of the pot rather than the top. This prevents a crusty layer from forming at the soil surface, as well as reducing chances of disease.

Timing is essential in growing from seed. If you start plants too early, they will be tall and floppy when

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it’s time to take them outside. If you start too late, then they may not be large enough to survive transplanting. Pick the date you want to plant them outside and then count back the number of weeks that the seed package indicates. Average last frost near Spokane is about May 15th, but in outlying areas, it’s closer to June 1st.

Keep in mind these are average dates, which means some years we’ll have a frost later. We’ve included some common seed starting dates in the table below. Cold weather vegetables like leeks, Tim Kohlhauff broccoli and cabbage are started Urban Horticulture in February. u Coordinator WSU/Spokane County Extension tkohlhauff@spokanecounty.org

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2-3 weeks

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3-8

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2” sq. pots

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Parsley

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4-6 weeks after

70-75°F

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60

1” apart in flat

Soak seeds overnight to speed germination.

Peppers

6-8 weeks

2-3 weeks after

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8-13

70

2” sq. pots

Sensitive to cold. Harden off carefully.

Pumpkins and Squash

2-3 weeks

1-3 weeks after

70-75°F

6-10

70

2” sq. pots

Sensitive to cold. Harden off carefully. Cut off extra plants.

Tomatoes

6-10 weeks

2-3 weeks after

70-75°F

6-14

70

3” sq. pots

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f you run livestock on your land, manure is just part of doing business. Depending on how that manure is managed, handled and stored, it can be a valuable resource or a major problem. As a resource, manure is the gardener’s dream fertilizer, rich in nutrients and organic matter. Manure spread at the appropriate agronomic rates can enrich pastures and eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers.

But when manure meets mud, especially during the wet seasons in heavy use areas (HUA’s) as in confined feeding paddocks, the potential for severe erosion and runoff of nutrients into streams grows exponentially. Once the manure reaches waterways, the ensuing environPaddock before mental damage may often occur several miles downstream, with the landowner being totally unaware of the consequences.

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Those several thousand animals we found generate thousands of tons of manure each year. During the summer when most of the animals are out in pastures, the manure is virtually invisible and not much of an issue. But during the winter months when the animals are confined, the manure quickly accumulates in smaller areas and can become a real problem.

The purpose of the Livestock and Land Program is to assist livestock property owners and boarding facilities with implementing Best Management Practices (BMPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) that improve animal health and safety while protecting the land. Our staff will provide free site assessments and consultations for livestock owners and frequently have cost-share funds available treatments. Typical improvements are construction of manure composting facilities where manure can be easily stored and managed. Many barns and animal sheds lack rain gutters which would direct storm water away from paddocks and manure holding areas. Many paddocks lack appropriate drainage with the heavy use areas turned into muddy, mucky messes during the winter, creating health and safety hazards for the animals and a high potential for pollution. Each site will have its own unique challenges with any number of solutions available. Contact the Spokane Conservation District for your own on-site assessment and consultation.

While the animals are confined in winter high use areas is a perfect time to make an assessment on how to maximize the efficiency of your livestock operation and manure handling system.

The Spokane Conservation District is a non-regulatory sub-division of State Government, providing assistance to landowners on a voluntary basis. u

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natural resource and environmental issues, but some can also provide on-site technical assistance. From production agriculture to nuisance wildlife and everything in between, this resource guide will help you find the information or assistance you need. There will be multiple listings for a particular issue and probably multiple issues addressed by several entities. Most of the listed agencies are sources of information and are in some way regulatory. All conservation districts are non-regulatory and provide on-site technical assistance as well as information. Extension

offices are also non-regulatory.

This month, the guide will focus on government agencies, and Extension offices. Subsequent issues will feature NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) and private industry.

The phone numbers, email addresses and websites have all been checked and are valid. If, while looking through the directory, you don’t find any listing for a particular issue you have on your property, please contact the Spokane Conservation District. If we don’t know the answer or can’t provide that particular service, we promise to put you in touch with someone who can.

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210 N Havana, Spokane, WA

509 535 7274

Jim-armstrong@sccd.org

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WATER RESOURCES N Stream bank & riparian restoration N Water quality N Livestock and land N Off site watering N Riparian fencing N Wetlands N Manure spreader rental N Permitting assistance N Cost-share programs

FORESTRY N Annual tree and shrub sale N Urban and rural forestry N Fire prevention assessments N Avista shade tree program N Technical assistance N Wildlife habitat

PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE N Direct Seed Loan Program N Soil erosion prevention N Technical assistance N Cross Slot no-till drill rental N Farm tours N No-till mentor programs N Cost-share

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION N K-12 in classroom presentations of Wheat Week N Water on Wheels N Trout in the Classroom N Lots of resources for teachers

SMALL FARM PROGRAM N Technical assistance N Marketing N Community gardens N Pasture management N Workshops N Livestock management

SOILS N Testing lab N On-site assistance N Soil survey and analysis

FERRY COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED BOARD

www.ferry-county.com/Other_Depts/Weed.asp wbcoord@co.ferry.wa.us 509-775-5225, ext 1111 PEND OREILLE COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED BOARD

www.pendoreilleco.org/county/weed.asp ssorby@pendoreille.org 509-447-2402 SPOKANE COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED BOARD

www.spokanecounty.org/WeedBoard/ content.aspx?c=1443 weedboard@spokanecounty.org 509-477-5777 STEVENS COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED BOARD

www.co.stevens.wa.us/weedboard/ weedboard@co.stevens.wa.us 509-684-7590

WSU ADAMS COUNTY EXTENSION

www.lincoln-adams.wsu.edu/ robertk@wsu.edu 509-659-3209

WSU FERRY COUNTY EXTENSION

www.county.wsu.edu/ferry fagerlie@wsu.edu 509-775-5225, ext 1116

WSU LINCOLN COUNTY EXTENSION

www.lincoln-adams.wsu.edu/ robertk@wsu.edu 509-725-4171

WSU PEND OREILLE COUNTY EXTENSION

www.pendoreille.wsu.edu/ carla.pogson@wsu.edu 509-447-2401

WSU SPOKANE COUNTY EXTENSION

www.spokane-county.wsu.edu/ 509-477-2048

WSU STEVENS COUNTY EXTENSION

www.county.wsu.edu extensionstevens@wsu.edu 509-684-2588

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Cozy Crochet Craft

By Ashley Lewan

W

ith icy winds and cold snaps, sometimes it’s painful to brave the elements and enjoy the winter season. This crochet pattern for an ear warming headband can be finished in no time and will produce a stylish fashion accessory that can be worn skiing, sledding or just to go outside and shovel your driveway. This pattern is easy enough for beginners. Using a simple single and double crochet stitch, curl up by the fire to relax and make this easy winter craft. You can give them as quick gifts or just make a stockpile for yourself in every color combination imaginable!

Materials 1 skein worsted wool yarn (any color) About 30” of colored yarn to wrap 3.5mm crochet hook

Stitch Glossary: ch- chain sc- single crochet dc- double crochet sl st- slip stitch rep- repeat Directions ch 15 (you can ch more or less depending on the width of the headband. If making for a child, you will probably want to do around 10) Row 1- sc in second ch from hook, dc in next stitch, sc in next stitch, rep across, turn Row 2- ch 1 sc in same stitch, dc in next stitch, rep across, turn

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MLS 4

$3

Rep until you reached desired length. I complete 30 rows because I like things a little looser, but you can adjust for head size. sl st together, fasten off and weave in ends

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Turn the headband so the sl st are facing inside

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Cinch tightly then cut and weave in ends

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