Feed Store Fun

One of my favorite outings in the Bend area is to the feed store. A feed store is a hardware store on steroids – for agriculture and animal husbandry. I wasn’t disappointed this trip – we went to Big R Stores near Redmond, Oregon.

A visit to the feed store in Redmond, Oregon, where you can
buy almost anything for the garden, ranch, or farm.

Feed stores sell everything, from work clothes and footgear, canning supplies, barbeque tools, horse gear (such as bridles, tethers, and saddle bags), farming and animal supplies (like hay hooks, troughs, and salt and mineral blocks), to gardening and irrigation supplies, kitchen ware, and tools to fix or build anything. And yes, you can buy feed for your horses, cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, and any other creature that needs to eat on the farm.

You can buy feed in bulk.

Invariably, I gravitate to the gardening section, and always find something interesting. This time I found CowPots™, which are planting pots made from 100% Renewable Composted Cow Manure. Earlier in the day I walked through the field and saw giant cow pies. Later I walked through the feed store and saw starter pots made from cow pies. This is brilliant. This is the type of innovative thinking that could save the economy, and the planet.