I think I have almost recovered from (and survived) Aug. 14 — a few loose ends to tie up yet — thank you letters, report to the board for its critique and then ..
. start planning for next year?!?! So, what was so special about Aug. 14? It was an eight-hour day for most of the participants of Lewis County Farm Bureau’s (LCFB) annual Tour of Agriculture.
It was about a 15-hour day for me, but that was only a tiny part of it. It was months of planning and pulling things together and several days after cleaning up and taking care of those loose ends. But it is worth it to me.
I believe in the Farm Bureau. In my opinion, it is a great organization of farmers and ranchers working together to promote and protect agriculture. The LCFB annual Tour of Agriculture is one of our ways of promoting agriculture, a way to let others get a glimpse of what we do as we produce the food that everyone eats.
The tour was first held in 2017. We drove a 12-passenger van and toured four operations. We have come a long way.
We went to a 40-passenger bus, took a couple years off due to COVID and legislators not wanting to get on a bus with a lot of people, and brought it back in 2023 with a 56-passenger tour bus that visited six LCFB members. This year, we again had a nice coach to travel on and made five stops. Stop 1: Southwest Washington Food Hub, Chehalis.
Tina Sharp and crew were packing food boxes for delivery to consumers but shut the operation line down long enough to talk to us about the.