The Dreams of Sasquatch Wallows: An Edenic Farm

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Matthew 13:44

I always found it odd that the above verse is a simile and referred to as a parable. I mean, isn’t the field the treasure? Whenever I drive by a beautiful farm or drool over the pictures in Farm & Ranch I certainly view the land as the treasure. Don’t you? Or am I weird? And when I’m on a beautiful farm or ranch, I certainly find it easier to walk closer to God.

Growing up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, I always thought the “treasure hidden in the field” land, the Edenic looking farms and ranches, were located on Oregon’s white oak savannas. These are the transition zones between the fertile valley floors and the pure regrowth timber of the Coast and Cascade mountain ranges of Western Oregon.

Ultimately, the dream is that Sasquatch Wallows will be located on a couple hundred acres of Oregon white oak savanna. We will have stewarded the land so that the white oaks and Douglas firs tower over the smaller fruit and nut trees. These majestic trees will provide a backdrop to the lush silvo-pasture floor. Together they provide all the food necessary for the livestock that are rotationally grazed under their canopy. A symbiotic relationship is created to the Glory of God where the pasture and trees feed the livestock while the livestock till and fertilize the land.

Welcome to Sasquatch Wallows.

#GloryToGodHogs

But of course, this is subject to the Lord’s will:

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 

Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

James 4:13-11