Timberview Farm

12/25/2024

Dancer is getting a last nap in late this afternoon, in preparation to be picked up as Santa swings by later this evening. She’s been pacing all day-she’s ready to go!!

12/20/2024

Ok, reindeer fans!! Last swing through the Valley & Portland beginning Friday 12/20.
12/20-Albany Coastal Farm & Ranch2-6 pm
12/20-Reindeer at Rockwood in Gresham Rockwood district by the water park-4-7pm
12/21-Gresham Station 2-6 pm
12/22-Gresham Ststion 2-6pm
12/22-Eugene Coastal Farm & Ranch2-6 pm
12/23-Marcola Community Market Christmas Party 12-4pm.
These are the last public appearances until next season.
Hope to see many of you out at the displays regardless of the weather!

12/16/2024

Thank you Boring Bark & owner Paul & all his staff for making our weekend so enjoyable. The reindeer were so happy, met new friends & saw old friends. I had not been able to schedule being at this event in earlier years, but this year I changed things up & spent the weekend. What a great business. Kudo’s to Paul for hosting this weekend long event at no charge to his community.

12/13/2024

Santa & the reindeer at Coastal Farm & Ranch in Gresham. 2-6pm. Come by & see them all. As a special treat, Aarre, our reindeer dog (Lapponian Herder) is with us today.

12/11/2024

Today the reindeer are located in The Dalles at Coastal Farm & Ranch from 2-6pm.
For those of you unable to get to The Dalles, lots of opportunities to see the reindeer later this week:
12/13-Coastal Farm-Gresham 2-6
12/15-Coastal Farm-Salem 2-6
Also:
12/13-Roseburg Honda 2-6pm
12-14&15-Boring Bark 10-5 each day
12/14-Oakway Center north side of the Hyatt, 1-4pm

Come by any event by yourself or bring friends & family!

12/05/2024

Finally a pair that chose each other as buddies! They go to Junction City this Sat from 12-4 for the Scandinavian Cultural Foundation event. Come visit with Cookie & Elf!

12/01/2024

Reindeer at the Oakway Center Tree Ligting! Always a good crowd to visit with. Joy & Ginger are waiting for their friends to stop by & say hi!

11/30/2024

The reindeer are at Woodburn Coastal Farm & Ranch from 2-6pm today (Sat 11/30). Come see Dancer & Noelle & meet Aarre, our new reindeer dog.

11/02/2024

Cookie & Noelle will be at Cabela’s in Springfield today to welcome Santa!! Noon to 5pm. Come say hi!!

09/16/2024

The quiet group still loves their tree! Velvet should be off within days.

09/16/2024

09/06/2024

Today began our AI procedure for this year. It is a multi-step process & will be completed 9/18. We’ve changed multiple things this year; timing, length of time between steps etc. Once again, fingers crossed that we can welcome new reindeer calves this spring.

07/21/2024

Meet Aarre! She’ll be joining us at Timberview Farm to begin her job of deterring cougars, bears, wolves & other predators like hawks, eagles & raccoons etc from coming in too close. Can’t wait to get her home & have Holly & Ripley teach her how things are done.

07/19/2024

Today is the day!! The long journey to Finland to collect my little pup to join Ripley & Holly on keeping the reindeer safe. She comes from working parents (working with reindeer even), so all ready to get to work😁.

06/28/2024

A lot of our clients know Thorp, my Lead Handler. Today I was happy to present Thorp with a hat painted by my friend Jeff Wells, out of Florida. Jeff spends a week here at the Farm, working on paintings & projects to do with reindeer. He’s an extremely talented artist specializing in fiber arts. The reindeer on the hat is Cupid, who Thorp had a lot of history with in the short 6 yrs Cupid spent with us. Thorp harvested Cupids antlers after he passed, & to my knowledge, is the only one who successfully preserved antlers in velvet. The hat made Thorps’s day.

05/23/2024

I’ve finally eradicated the toxic plants in the back field, which means I can use the back field for the reindeer year around. Timing for use has to be carefully monitored & staggered because a cougar comes through daily & fence line in the back is only about 20’ from where cougar goes through.
The reindeer love it back here. Tons of salal, lichen, blackberries, bark, leaves, grasses & lots of other yummy stuff for the reindeer to enjoy.
(The dogs still can see to the back of the field & warn the reindeer when the cougar goes through. When they are coming running into the barn, it’s time to close the gate to the back for a few hours).

03/09/2024

The dogs watching the reindeer head to the back field. It is their job to make sure cougars stay out of the fenced areas. Since the dogs came to live with the reindeer, I see the cougars on my game cameras, but they never jump in. The eye sight & hearing these dogs have is very sensitive. Once they alert, I pay attention. They are never wrong in telling me a predator is close. And one bark tells the reindeer to run back to the safety of the barn.