“A Walla Walla native.  I left the “when”  I graduated high school.  I had the cap and gown on, but a suitcase was under it. JL Chamberlain is from a third generation Walla Walla ranch family, complete with seven children. Raised on horses, the farm work was largely changing pipes, bucking hay bales and driving tractors. The family farm was a hobby farm.  Grandpa Joe and Dad were “gentlemen” farmers raising race horses.  They had cattle, ponies, and crops including wheat, alfalfa and sugar beets.  All the kids were in 4-H clubs with various animals from horses to dogs. Lynne worked on wheat ranches during the summer months as a harvest cook.  She was disgruntled that “girls” couldn’t drive the trucks… until the day the “big machine” broke down.  The unusual gasket was a two day back order.  When she cut a gasket out of an inner tube and got the crew up and running again, she was promoted to truck driving.	Dare, Bee and the 7 C's
Having a cousin in the Napa area, Lynne spent many vacations in the California region enjoying wines. This ultimately fueled her desire to start Spofford Station Foothills Vineyard as part of  a wine grape operation.  Much, much later, after returning to Walla Walla (that’s another story)… she bought her own farm.  The 500 acre farm includes peppermint, wheat, alfalfa hay, and of course, vinifera grapes. (On her wheat farm, all the girls have a resume’ that includes “heavy equipment operator.”)  Being a farmer means looking for ways to vertically integrate a crop. Spofford Station farm houses a nursery, greenhouse and plant propagation business besides acreage of the Black Wine varietals.  Lynne established a greenhouse for certified plant production.  She integrates production from the greenhouse to roots to distillation of oil.  She does the same with the grapes taking the plants from baby to bottle.  The future will include more estate and single block wines which will go into her winery label Spofford Station.	The C's at Spofford