About
Farmer Deb
About
Deb Howard
Deb Howard, aka “Farmer Deb”, is the owner and manager of the Willapa Bay Heritage Farm.
Daughter of a career Naval aviator, Harlan, and his wife, Lyddia, Deb moved to the Peninsula in 2017 after years of looking for a farming property.
Working her day job at a Fortune 50 company to afford her hobby farm habit, Deb appreciates working in the dirt and spending time with her chickens and goats.
Daughter of a career Naval aviator, Harlan, and his wife, Lyddia, Deb moved to the Peninsula in 2017 after years of looking for a farming property.
Working her day job at a Fortune 50 company to afford her hobby farm habit, Deb appreciates working in the dirt and spending time with her chickens and goats.
Our
legacy
The Willapa Bay Heritage Farm is dedicated to Deb’s family of farmers going back five generations, but in particular the memory of her maternal grandparents, Alice and Gregory Ptitsin, who met at Washington State University marrying September 1st, 1929.
A wheat farming clan from central Washington, Alice’s family settled in Washington pre-statehood while Gregory was an immigrant from Russia who lost his family holdings in the Russian Revolution. With a degree in horticulture from the University of Kiev, Gregory loved his dahlias and magnolia trees.
He grew football-size spider chrysanthemums and used tweezers to pull weeds from his near-perfect dichondra lawn.
