The Greenwalt family has farmed in Washington state for more than 110 years. Our family immigrated from the Odessa region of southern Russia after being a part of the original Volga Germans, who had their rights revoked by the very government that invited them in to share their advanced agricultural knowledge. It was in 1899 that my great grandfather homesteaded land in the Eastern Washington region spanning the area between Odessa and Ritzville.