[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1536215154671{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-image: url(https://www.debrarudloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/11.jpg?id=189) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” el_class=”banner_haeding”][vc_column][boc_heading alignment=”center” color=”#ffffff” font_size=”35px” css_classes=”bold-title”]About deb[/boc_heading][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”about_page”][vc_column width=”1/2″][boc_heading color=”#333333″ font_size=”32px” css_classes=”custom-page-title”]Meet Deb[/boc_heading][vc_column_text]

My name is Deb!  I’m so glad you’re here!

I am a journalist, nutritionist, vertical farmer, entrepreneur, wife mom and grammy. My husband Jerry and i live on a 12 acre “spread” just outside of Bend, Oregon. We’ve been here for 21 years now and we raised two sons, Ryan and Dylan, out here. They are both married now and we have two grandsons and we are happy that everyone still lives in Bend!

I grew up on a 350 organic cattle ranch near the Oregon Coast. I say “organic” because back then nobody talked about organic gardening, but that’s what we did because nobody had invented Roundup yet to spray on crops and nobody thought about giving antibiotics to cattle yet. Our cows grazed on canary grass. We had a one acre veggie garden, fruit trees, and lots of berries for us kids to graze on as well. There were chickens and fresh eggs, too. It was a healthy and great way to grow up.

It wasn’t until I left for college that I started to appreciate how great it was! Dorm food and the discovery of fast food joints wasn’t exactly my downfall, but I quickly realized that growing your own food was at that time not really normal. None of my new college friends had grown up that way, eating veggies just picked from the garden.

After college I went to Alaska and met my future husband who was a commercial fisherman. I worked for a couple of weekly newspapers and eventually got a job as a reporter for the daily Anchorage Times. When Ryan was born I tried putting him in daycare, but couldn’t stand it so I quit my dream job to be a stay at home mom. And we moved to Bend in 1987.

While Jerry was away fishing, I thought I could recreate my childhood gardening experience so my boys could have farm fresh produce like I had.I quickly discovered the climate in Bend is a “challenge” and not at all like gardening on the West side of the Cascade Mountain range. 

Because I have the curiosity of a journalist and have always had an interest in nutrition (I finished my Masters in Holistic Nutrition in 2004) I pay attention to what creates good health and what can lead to bad health. With this website/blog I hope to share useful information and tips for maintaining great health, as well as keep you up to date on projects we are doing with our property. By the way, I was able to “retire” my husband from his long stints of fishing and get him back home to raise the boys with me because I found a home based business that still let me be a stay at home mom! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” image=”482″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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