Calling All Farms!

Moooooooooooo!

Right now we are in search of a dairy farm to volunteer on for our senior project. We've looked online for hours trying to find nearby farms and of course all of the good ones are up by the California-Oregon border! There's no way we are driving 120398120893 hours just to volunteer some place, so we have no idea what we're going to do at this point...We called three different (more local!) farms today and had literally zero luck. We called up one place and told the lady we were looking for an "organic farm" to work on and she proceeded by yelling at us that she was "not an organic farm and never will be." She scowled, "I have no intention of going through all the certifications, etc that it takes to become organic," and then added that she "didn't need any help on her farm" (AWKWARD). So then we went to plan B and called another place asking to volunteer at their dairy farm (being sure not to say the word "organic" this time) and they told us "We aren't a farm. We're just a milk processing plant"(AWKARD x2). Don't they know not to have pictures of roaming cows on their website if they aren't an actual farm? (False advertising if you ask me...)

Well, here's to hoping tomorrow goes a little more smoothly. We have a few more places to contact before we will kick into desperation mode. Wish us luck! 


~Jill