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Weekend Farmer Company

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The Weekend Farming Company is a one-product family-owned US business built entirely around The Farming Game, which was invented by Central Washington rancher George Rohrbacher in July 1979 after two droughts threatened his family farm. The first edition was assembled by workers at Portland's Goodwill Industries, and the site credits it with several hundred thousand copies sold and use in schools worldwide; it also notes that in 1994 the World Bank sent Rohrbacher to Russia to oversee the game's translation during post-Soviet farm privatisation. The site is a small WordPress.com site selling T…

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Country of Origin
United States
Latest Game
The Farming Game
Latest Year
1979
Games listed
8

Published Games(8)

Game Name
Fix the Fence
Hay is for Horses
Kings Cribbage
Racing 'N Rodeo
The Construction Game
The Farming Game
The Farming Game Card Game
The Farming Game Kids