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Farming: A Toddler’s Perspective

My farm day starts early as I see the light beckoning from around the curtains. I cannot wait for my first peek of outside each day. I especially like glimpsing Maggie, my dog, or watching the swallows dive and dip through the air. Once I have some food in my belly and my waterproof boots on, we head out to morning meeting. The crew and my mom stand around talking...

Ideas for Eating French Breakfast Radishes

Radishes can be divisive. Working Red Dog’s stall at the Port Townsend Farmers Market last year, I encountered many radish lovers who eagerly scooped up four or five bunches at a time, and nearly as many outspoken radish skeptics. Now French breakfast radishes are back, in our fields, in your CSA share, and on the shelves of the Red Dog Farmstand. Love them or hate...

Welcoming Back the Barn Swallows

Barn Swallows are back! Did you know that they fly up to 600 miles per day? Unbelievable. It’s well known that these metallic-backed birds assist farmers with controlling troublesome insects while taking refuge in the eves of buildings, but the story of their tail shape is lesser known. As legend has it, a Barn Swallow stole fire from the gods to bring it to...

An Ode to Raab

Maybe you thought I would write about the bursting beauty of the tulips in April, or the explosion of little plants in the greenhouse that make me feel all giddy about another season of vegetables. Or perhaps you imagined I would write about the longer days, the sunnier skies, the drier fields, the hopefulness that is spring. Oh we just got pigs! Maybe you wanted to...

Looking Forward to the Fun of Farming

The long winter lull is quickly forgotten with the arrival of spring. A small crew of hardy harvesters that kept the wheels of Red Dog Farm turning over the dark months has now blossomed into group of folks that can handle just about anything. We’re doing just about everything farmers do at the moment. Tractors are hastily turning in cover crop to make way for...

Paige’s Poetry

Happy CSA week #2, all! I truly hope you all had some tasty meals from last week’s share. After all, a bouquet of kale raab is an edible arrangement – and it can even bloom into happy yellow edible flowers. Over the past few months, we’ve been working away at harvesting over-wintered veggies, getting the fields ready for seeding/transplanting, and growing tiny...