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Both growing up in California and attending Humboldt State University together, Katie Coppoletta and Rowan Steele are soon to be getting married. Dating six years, they waited for just for the "right" place to marry. This October they will join their lives forever on their new family farm in Corbett. Katie and Rowan met in Mexico while doing a summer study with Humboldt. Both attended the school, but had never met prior. They have been together ever since. Both having graduated, they traveled all over the world for a year. They even backpacked in Patagonia for two months, staying in the southern most city in the world! Rowan went on to get his master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning at PSU. He is now working in Portland, teaching classes about healthy watersheds, employed by both PSU and the City of Portland. Katie and Rowan live with Katie's parents who recently moved up from CA. themselves to purchase a home and acreage to share with Katie and Rowan. Katie works full-time in the fields while Rowan steps in as much as possible when he is not working in the city. Together they sell their produce each Sunday at the Fiddlehead Farm stand at the Montavilla Produce Market on 76th and Stark from 10-2 pm. The season lasts 22 weeks, and next year two friends will join in the efforts to share equipment, tools and other resources. Both feel strongly about small scale agriculture and food production, believing both are a basis for so much. They say farming is not an occupation, as much as it is a way of life- connecting to the earth we are so blessed to live on.
