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2A — BAKER CITY HERALD MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2019 O BITUARIES Carl Rosato Richland, 1957-2019 B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR MONDAY, DEC. 2 ■ Haines Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m. at the Haines Library. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4 ■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: 9 a.m., Courthouse, 1995 Third St. THURSDAY, DEC. 5 ■ National Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Free-Fee Days: Free admission; the center is 5 miles east of Baker City just off Highway 86; information about winter hours is available by calling 541-523-1843. ■ Saint Alphonsus Foundation Festival of Trees: Preview Among the Trees, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Community Event Center, 2600 East St.; tickets are $20 each; tickets are sold out for Friday’s Gala. FRIDAY, DEC. 6 ■ 4-H Christmas Bazaar: Noon to 5:30 p.m., at the Extension Offi ce, 2600 East St.; to reserve a table, call 541- 523-6418. ■ Live Music by Keith Taylor: Ragtime piano, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave.; no charge. T URNING B ACK THE P AGES 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald December 2, 1969 An athletics and activities coordinating committee was created by the Baker County Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors at its meeting Tuesday evening. 25 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald December 2, 1994 The Anne Frank Community Exhibit opened Thursday night at the Oregon National Guard Armory with featured speaker Alice Kern, who presented her story of survival at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. 10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald December 2, 2009 Grant Johnson is 55 hours from playing in his fi rst Civil War, which is to say he’s preparing to etch his name into a legend. They’ve already battled on the football fi eld 112 times, the Oregon State Beavers and the University of Oregon Ducks. ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald December 3, 2018 About 100 people attended a Forest Service meeting Friday at Baker High School, and the possibility that the agency will close roads to motor vehicles was a major topic of concern. Friday’s meeting was one of several “objection resolu- tion” meetings Forest Service offi cials scheduled after they received more than 350 objections to the revised management plans for the three Blue Mountains national forests, released in late June. Those plans are intended to replace the 1990 manage- ment guidelines for the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla and Malheur national forests. The day-long meeting included nine separate sessions, each covering different topics including access, timber and vegetation management, fi re and fuels management and livestock grazing. The sessions were overseen by one of three Forest Service offi cials: Reviewing Offi cer Chris French and two associate deputy chiefs, Allen Rowley and Jenn Eberling. Carl Rosato, 62, of Rich- land, died Nov. 24, 2019, at his home with his wife at his side. Carl grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with 11 other sib- lings. At 15, he took a road trip with his mom and younger brother to the Northwest and Carl visited Tolstoy, Rosato an intentional community near Spokane, Washington, focused on farming and simple living. Carl left high school and joined Tolstoy later in his 15th year. To support himself, Carl picked apples, peaches, and other tree fruit in Washington state orchards every season for fi ve years. He worked hard and was known as the fastest and best fruit picker. Carl moved to an- other back-to-the-land farm- ing intentional community at Wolfe Creek, Oregon, and then onto a start-up farm in Washington where he hoped to work his way into coopera- tive ownership. When that did not work out, he began to save money for his own farm, picking fruit, planting trees for the Hoedads in Washington, and grafting. Carl met his fi rst wife, Rael Reif, in 1979. They bought 10 acres in the Sierra foothills near Oroville, California, in 1980. Carl began building the poor soil on their hilly land with compost and cover crops and planted 1,000 peach trees and 40 mandarin orange trees. Carl chose many of the peach and nectarine varieties that had been his favorites while picking fruit in Wash- ington. Carl built a small greenhouse and a one-room home, complete with out- house, outdoor shower, and solar hot water. Carl worked for four years at a local lumber mill. While the fruit trees matured, he grew fl owers and sold them on street corners for the fi ve major “fl ower holidays.” Woodleaf Farm was certifi ed organic in 1982 and was the ninth farm in California to be certifi ed by California Certi- fi ed Organic Farmers (CCOF). Carl became very involved with CCOF, as a certifi er for other organic farms. He at- tended the very fi rst EcoFarm conference in 1981. He read everything he could get his hands on about organic soil management and farming and started his enormous book collection. Carl and Rael divorced in 1991. Carl focused on his farm, diversifi ed, and expanded while purchasing another 16 acres and planting another 2,000 fruit trees, adding to the peaches, nectarines, and mandarins with apples, pears, plums, pluots, Asian pears, persimmons and baby kiwi. He also raised vegetables, including his well-known trel- lis cucumbers, and shiitake mushrooms. Carl developed an ecologi- cal approach to soil and pest management with reduced tillage and living mulches to help cycle nutrients and provide habitat for benefi cial insects. He also devolved a gravity fl ow irrigation system, 100% solar power for the farm, low energy use build- ings, and had cats for gopher control He developed a strong farmer’s market clientele selling at six farmer’s markets per week in the Bay area and one weekly market in Chico, California. Carl’s peaches were renowned for fl avor and beauty all over northern California. Carl was always trying to improve organic farming techniques and understand biological systems with on- farm experiments. In 1992, Carl received the fi rst Organic Farming Research Founda- tion farmer research grant to study organic methods for peach brown rot manage- ment. Carl’s three years of experiments helped him to develop his famous “mineral- mix bloom spray” to manage brown rot. Carl used the bloom spray successfully for more than 20 years. Carl focused on organic soil management and studied with several leaders in soil NOV 29-DEC 5 ELTRYM HISTORIC THEATER 1809 1st Street, Baker City www.eltrym.com O REGON L OTTERY MEGABUCKS, Nov. 30 1 — 4 — 10 — 21 — 22 — 32 Next jackpot: $6.8 million POWERBALL, Nov. 30 15 — 35 — 42 — 63 — 68 PB 18 Next jackpot: $120 million MEGA MILLIONS, Nov. 29 6 — 8 — 31 — 50 — 65 Mega 9 Next jackpot: $266 million KNIVES OUT WIN FOR LIFE, Nov. 30 15 — 36 — 47 — 48 PICK 4, Dec. 1 • 1 p.m.: 1 — 1 — 4 — 7 • 4 p.m.: 0 — 7 — 6 — 8 • 7 p.m.: 0 — 6 — 0 — 1 • 10 p.m.: 9 — 1 — 7 — 1 PG-13 FRI & SAT: (12:45) 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 SUN: (12:45) (3:45) 6:45 MON-THURS: 6:45 FROZEN 2 FRI & SAT: (1:10) 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 LUCKY LINES, Dec. 1 PG 3-6-12-16-20-24-26-31 SUN: (1:10) (4:10) 7:10 MON-THURS: 7:10 Next jackpot: $15,000 A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD S ENIOR M ENUS C ONTACT THE H ERALD 1668 Resort St. Open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone: 541-523-3673 Copyright © 2019 Fax: 541-833-6414 Regional publisher Christopher Rush crush@eomediagroup.com Publisher Karrine Brogoitti kbrogoitti@lagrandeobserver. com Jayson Jacoby, editor jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Advertising email ads@bakercityherald.com Classifi ed email classified@bakercityherald.com Circulation email circ@bakercityherald.com ISSN-8756-6419 Serving Baker County since 1870 Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays except Christmas Day by the Baker Publishing Co., a part of EO Media Group, at 1668 Resort St. (P.O. Box 807), Baker City, OR 97814. Subscription rates per month are: $10.80; by mail $12.50. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Baker City Herald, P.O. Box 807, Baker City, OR 97814. Periodicals Postage Paid at Baker City, Oregon 97814 age and living mulches. In February 2012, Carl was recognized with a Steward of Sustainable Agriculture Award, at the 32nd Ecofarm Conference. Later that year Helen sold her Montana farm and moved to California and began to farm with Carl. Carl and Helen also contin- ued to do on-farm research, including a Western Sustain- able Agriculture Research & Education grant (2013-2015) to study Woodleaf Farm’s disease and insect suppres- sion and soil management system, and a 2013 grant from The Fruit Guys to study Woodleaf’s insect suppression strategies. Carl and Helen did presen- tations and workshops togeth- er and published the results of their research at https:// eorganic.org/node/14129. Carl and Helen also created educational videos presented at https://www.youtube.com/ user/AgrarianDreams/vid- eos. In the winter they hiked and camped in the desert and backpacked in warmer climates. After four bountiful and lucrative years farming in California, Carl and Helen had enough saved to “semi-re- tire.” In December 2015, they bought 211 acres in North- eastern Oregon at the base of the Wallowa Mountains with 64 irrigated acres along nearly a mile of Eagle Creek. They built deer fence, planted a 400-acre orchard with 85 varieties of fruit, including crosses they had made from their favorite Woodleaf Farm peaches. They built a greenhouse and a high tunnel for vegetable produc- tion and experimented with further reducing tillage and growing their own fertilizer in their vegetable fi elds. Carl built sheds and the shop he had always dreamed of. Helen and Carl continued to travel for presentations and workshops and for camping, backpacking, and snorkeling adventures. They especially enjoyed exploring the Eagle Cap Wilderness just up the road from their farm. Carl redid his Woodleaf Farm website to include all the new ideas and farming methods he and Helen were experiment- ing with at Woodleaf Farm, Oregon. Carl never stopped learn- ing, changing his ideas, being curious, and seeing with the eyes of wonder and awe. He had a life of passion and pur- pose and service and has been well-loved by family, friends, students, and all the people he touched with his work. Donations in Carl’s name can be sent to CCOF Founda- tion, the Wild Farm Alliance, or Organic Farming Research Foundation through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online condolences may be made at www.tamispineval- leyfuneralhome.com PG FRI & SAT: (1:00) 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 SUN: (1:00) (4:00) 7:00 MON-THURS: 7:00 ( )Bargain Matinee ■ TUESDAY: Swedish meatballs over fettuccine, mixed vegetables, bread, coleslaw, ice cream ■ WEDNESDAY: Beef pot roast, potatoes and gravy, green beans, roll, carrot-raisin salad, apple crisp Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $4.50 donation (60 and older), $6.75 for those under 60. mineral balancing. He became an organic soil manage- ment consultant, working with farmers to balance soil minerals and design/maintain organic orchards. Carl was devoted to educa- tion and service. From 2004 to 2010, Carl helped to direct, design and run the CCOF Foundation grant-funded Going Organic Project. From 1994 to 2011, Carl taught four organic farming courses at Butte Community College in California. Carl was also the presi- dent of the North Valley California chapter of CCOF and served as a CCOF state board member (2005-2012) and a Community Alliance with Family Farmers board member (2000-2005). Carl was a volunteer every year at Full Belly Farm’s Hoes Down Festival where he also presented workshops. During the winters, Carl traveled extensively in Central and South America and eventually bought land in Ecuador to save endangered primary native tropical forest. On the unforested part of his land in Ecuador, Carl planted cacao trees and learned to make chocolate, that friends and family say was very bitter. He sold the land in Ecuador when he found that spending winters away from his Wood- leaf Farm in California got in the way of managing his farm and maintaining the kind of quality Carl insisted upon. Carl met his second wife, Gina Colombatto, at his Marin farmer’s market in 2002 and helped to raise his stepdaughter, Lena DGiulia, who was 12 and loved coming to the farm and helping at Carl’s farmer’s markets. Carl and Gina traveled in Europe and explored the East Coast of the U.S. But Carl’s farm always came fi rst and he and Gina divorced in 2008 when Carl lost his entire fruit crop to a spring frost and put all his energy into growing vegetables for the valuable farmers markets he had spent so many years building. Carl turned out to be as good a vegetable grower as he was a fruit grower. Carl met his last wife, Helen Atthowe, at the 2011 EcoFarm conference where they were both presenting about ecological soil and pest strategies using reduced till- Show Times: 541-523-2522 Offi ce: 541-523-5439 Something with benefits? We can help. Subscribe to the Baker City Herald right now! 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