Newsletters

Finding Happiness and Peace in the Fields

Hello Red Dog Customer! My name is Jake Carson, and I am new to the farming life, having only started at Red Dog just over a month ago. Only months ago, I was convinced that my life would take the path that so many of my friends’ and family members’ lives have already taken: I was to go to college, get my bachelor’s degree and, because I chose history for a major,...

For Love of Raspberries

As we enter into our first full week of July this season, the farm staff is especially excited to be starting the raspberry harvest. And that of course means this week’s CSA share will be including these exceptional berries as well. If you’re like me, you can never really have enough of these when they are in season. So we like-minded berry fanatics surely plan to...

One-Armed Cooking

I signed up to write this week’s newsletter about a month ago, anticipating being able to share with you all my first-hand account of what has been happening around the farm and highlighting my favorite produce that makes its debut this time of year. Instead, I find myself having been out of the field for 2 1/2 weeks now, writing to you with an ice pack on my arm...

Sourcing Supplies in a Supportive Community

“Farming is all about moving people and things around.” A veteran farmer in the Skagit told me this once and it struck me as exceedingly true. Get the carrot seeds, the tractor and the driver to the field to plant carrots. Get the irrigation pipe and people to the field to water the carrots. Get the people and the hoes to the field to weed the carrots. Get the truck...

Old Things are New Again

How far can something be stretched until it’s no longer physically viable? Making broken and old things new again seems to be a reoccurring theme in my life. Old trucks getting new parts, broken hoses getting replaced by new hoses, ripped greenhouse plastic getting patched with new materials, switching dull knives out for sharp knives, the list goes on. Today,...

Becoming a Farmer

June is an exciting month to work on the farm. The fields are filling up quickly with vegetables and fruit; the days are finally warmer and the longest they will be all year; and there are lots of new folks who are joining our crew. May marked one year that I’ve worked at Red Dog Farm, and after twelve months of learning and observing, June is the first month that...