View the first steps in building our Ethnobotanical Garden on Facebook The Farm’s Curriculum offers 62 student learning stations for a comprehensive 3-dimensional (and level) introduction to Washington State History.  Student tours of 1 or 2 hour durations are envisioned.  20% of the learning stations are dedicated to the history of native peoples; every station displays a NW native plant used by the pioneers and the American Indigenous. The Farm as it exists today should be considered a “staging area.”  5 acres is too small an area for any number of visitors above 40-50 to walk about.  We are looking for an alternative 10-acre site and recently PLC (November 2021) purchased the potential start of such a campus immediately across from the Gardens on the west side of the I-5 Freeway.  Teaching State History is a requirement in the States of Oregon and Washington, yet at no time has the teaching of history been so lowly regarded.  This observation we believe is real, created mainly by the technological advances that cascade around us each decade (iPhones weren’t invented when we started work on the Farm in 2005).  That said, we believe it will be important to remind the next generation that –

This land was Heaven to Pioneers who believed in hard work, lived under English Law where an individual is sovereign – a concept enhanced by America’s equal rights and opportunities granted in the US Constitution.  This is and was contrary to the individual rights that are bestowed by tribal affiliations that reflect origin, race, gender, religion and/or other group favoritisms.  Our ancestors came here to be freeborn as common brothers and sisters.  The Farms exhibits, pedestals, and kiosks are a tribute to these peoples, their beliefs, the tribal cultures and living styles abandoned, and a celebration of treating others and this Earth with care and respect.  The Farm passes on their charge that our “ultimate responsibility is the Earth we leave for the next generation.”