If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time here at Red Dog Farm, it’s that everything has a season. Some of our produce is only available for a few weeks during the year and the anticipation that builds while waiting to taste that first bite of green garlic (one of my personal favorites), the sweetness of the first strawberry or perhaps the spray that hits...
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Pollinators are really cool. When you spend a lot of time looking at plants (as we do here), you tend to notice pollinating insects bopping around the flowers. Whether it’s one of our crops, the weeds between the beds, or the native plants in the wetlands area and along the fence lines, if a plant is flowering, there is a good chance you could see something taking...
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All this past winter I was in search of what I thought would be an island that I could call my home; a place surrounded by nature, friendly people, common interests, and community driven goals. Unbeknown to me, the island I was dreaming of was in reality very much a peninsula—a beautiful one at that. I accepted my position here at Red Dog Farm and left sunny...
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Somehow June sneaks up on me every year. All during May we are busy plugging plants into the ground, sowing seeds in the greenhouse and fields, and orienting new crew to the farm. May still feels decidedly mid-Spring; things are not serious yet. Then, out of nowhere, June happens! Suddenly the weeds start to grow in earnest, we’re harvesting more and more, and...
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My name is Michelle and I am one of the newest crew members at Red Dog Farm. This is my second year farming, coming from a background in habitat conservation and outdoor education for almost a decade. For many years I managed and led community-based habitat restoration programs in parks around Northern California, and now have shifted my career to practicing and...
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This week we seeded our winter squash, which is always an annual landmark. These robust seeds get tucked into flats in the greenhouse for speedy germination. In a mere two weeks, we will be planting them into the soil outdoors. We’ll watch them quickly takeover, maybe getting one hoeing in before they have completely engulfed their territory. They are vining plants,...
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