Getting Ready for Winter on Our Urban Farm

Reader Contribution by Deanna Tworivers
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Our farmers market was put to bed the last Saturday of September, and we got busy getting ready for winter. The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts for our area “Winter will be cooler and rainier than normal, with above-normal snowfall.” To quote a popular television show, “Winter is coming.”

After a long, unusually hot, dry summer our Pacific Northwest, weather tried to make up for it in one weekend. On Halloween night, In six hours, our area received more than 2 inches of rain. In the city center, light rail, street cars and buses were delayed. One local Twitter user recorded video of a light rail car with water rushing through the inside. We weathered the storm in comfort in our little 800-square-foot concrete block house (built in 1950 with very little improvement or maintenance since) thanks to a snug new roof (raccoon damage on Thanksgiving day 2013) and a rebuilt chimney.

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