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Why Shop at Harvest Haven?

What We Are

Who Is Who

Map & Store Hours

Back to Basics

The Dandelion

Raising the Flag

Customer Feedback

Farm Picture Slideshow

Who Is Who at Harvest Haven?

While each of us has his or her special duties and talents, we are also generalists. We try to be responsible for one another and one another's tasks. Looking out for each other, we remind, advise, correct and help each other any way we can, and we all benefit in many ways.

Our individual responsibilities:

Marilyn Hafichuk, owner with Victor of Harvest Haven, is one of the key players who got the store going several years ago and continues to supervise wholesale orders, retail grocery sales, deliveries, and customer service. She helps Mark plan gardens, meat production and processing. She also homeschools our son, Jonathan, which is a full-time job in itself. She has two jobs, two homes, two beds, two pillows, and, she thinks, too many things to do.

Mark Benson, the farm manager, has a master’s degree in organic agriculture. He speaks fluent Japanese, is a carpenter, woodworker, beekeeper, gardener, researcher, speaker, writer, comedian, cow milker, cattleman, shepherd, and a walking computer. He oversees general farm operations and staff and is a great help to those who seek a better, healthier life. Mark sleeps about three hours a night. If you want to know all there is to know about anything, ask Mark. He will be more than pleased to talk, hoping you will be more than pleased to listen.

Mariko Benson is a "Jack (Jane)-of-all-trades". She is the assistant housekeeper and cook, our photographer, display artist, apprentice helper to Mark on many duties, an excellent cook, and readily takes on any necessary duty. She worked in an organic store in Japan, and has presented us with several talents and good ideas, now incorporating many of them into the website, which she manages.

Trevor Benson, an engineer by training, traded in his stamp to be a welder, mechanic, bookkeeper, carpenter, large and small appliance repairman, computer tech, groundskeeper, landscaper, supervisor, comedian, shipper and receiver. He is the man for servicing and operating farm machinery, vehicles, water systems, and irrigation. He supervises the broiler and layer chickens, turkey and hay production. He does construction in many aspects...carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and more. Not to be slacking off, he is also our rifleman and trapper, protecting our fowl and us from predators. Trevor sleeps about two hours a night, provided there are no emergencies. However, emergencies are the norm rather than the exception at Harvest Haven...never a dull moment.

Ingrid Benson is shopkeeper, serving customers, keeping inventory records, doing computer work, and has a memory for some details that escape the rest of us. Ingrid works with Dena and Marilyn on grocery orders and deliveries, and helps wherever she is needed. Her biggest job now is mother to Gabriel.

Dena Dahl is our full-time shopkeeper and customer service person, and is quite capable with computers and research. She takes care of HTE, Ionizer, Aquasmart, Sunrider, and other orders. Dena has a wealth of knowledge in the health field and has helped many, including us, with her valuable straight-forward advice. Have you had any questions about nutrition lately?

Lois Benson makes sure everyone gets at least two hours of sleep a night and three round meals a day. Her artistic touch and gift for interior design are displayed in the farm store. Lois also does most of the housekeeping, cooking, baking, cheese and yogurt making, canning, dehydrating, freezing, laundry, and flower gardening. When she’s free, she fills in with a host of activities, like egg gathering, strawberry picking, weeding, turkey feeding, yard work, painting, and even haying. No hay bale is too big for her. Lois never sleeps.

Jonathan Hafichuk, my son, helps occasionally with odd jobs, weeding, harvesting, and picking berries. However, with a demanding home schooling schedule and extracurricular activities such as Ninjutsu, Jonathan has not been involved much at the farm. With utmost conviction, he says he will never be a farmer. Have you heard any "famous last words" lately? But I believe him.

Then there are those behind the scenes: 

Sara Schmidt helps us from Helena, MT, doing research, and works with documents for distribution to all. As webmistress, she collects, edits, formats, and posts the letters and writings on our spiritual site, www.thepathoftruth.com.

Paul Cohen is in Helena, MT, and works with us selling HTE equipment; Laser, Scenar, and Cosmodic devices; as well as Grander Living Water. He does research and has compiled some of the information on this website. Paul works with Victor and Sara on www.thepathoftruth.com, a site that tells our stories (Our Testimonies) and shares the knowledge we have received from God concerning all aspects of life in this world. By God's grace, we have answers for all. No problem is too great for Him.

Last of all (I will not be so forward as to say, "but not least"), here am I, Victor Hafichuk, owner of Harvest Haven, the generalist of generalists, having my nose into a little bit of everything, yet letting everyone else take responsibility for it all, one way or another. My main occupation, seriously, is with Paul, working on www.thepathoftruth.com. This is a high privilege and responsibility of God apportioned to us for the welfare of all. Our purpose is to share the great blessings we have in Christ with all who are prepared to receive.

Reality, not religion, is what it is all about.

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