Barbara Koch Kern talk on farming in Tualatin
Title
Barbara Koch Kern talk on farming in Tualatin
Description
A transcript of a talk by Barbara Koch Kern on farming when she was growing up in Tualatin, Oregon, in the 1930s-1950s. Topics include: typical farm meals; division of farm lands into pasture, grain land and cash crop land; raising and butchering hogs; dairies; growing onions and other vegetables for market; 'truck gardening' (packing vegetables for market onto trucks); selling farm goods at markets in Portland; threshing grain with horses and machines; the arrival of freezers and their impact on farming.
Creator
Kern, Barbara Koch
Subject
Washington County (Or.) -- History
Agriculture
Place
Washington County (Or.)
Tualatin (Or.)
Extent
1 volume
Language
English
Identifier
THS_OH_88
Rights
In Copyright
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Source
Tualatin Valley Historical Society
Type
Text