SIMPLER PAST

The Noble family homestead (A Simpler Past Homestead) is located at the end of the Newaukum Valley near Chehalis Washington. A homestead is more than a farm or a home; it is a passion to build with one's own hands the lifestyle of a vision and through it a better world. We honor the old fashion quality of a time before overbearing industry with their chemicals and industrial machines, when every market garden was intimately known by the farmer, and every tool expertly crafted by its maker... It is from the great diversity of life that we exist comfortably on this world. We view our self‘s as part of nature and therefore we do not try to conquer her, rather we participate in a system greater than ourselves, performing our function of healing our land by amending the life on it, not just sustaining it. In contrast Industrial agriculture is in constant chemical warfare with nature, killing the very organisms that plants need to survive. In their place fertilizers are applied with the key..

Primary location: Chehalis United States