has been yet another fabulous farm week! This past week we welcomed a new crew member, Jillian. Jillian just moved here from Bend, Oregon where she was working as a ski instructor. She also very recently graduated from Cal Poly Tech, where she studied nutrition and got her hands dirty working at the college’s Organic Farm. Jillian was drawn to Port Townsend...
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This week the farm has undergone a full transformation and it feels we have emerged into another phase of the spring season. Ben (pictured above) and Jeff spent cumulative days on the tractor spreading the basis of our applied fertility- chicken manure in the form of dried pellets known as Nutririch. After spreading, we follow with another tractor pass, this time...
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Ready, Set, Go! We are at that stage in the season where everything needs to be done at once: Transplant starts, seed starts in the greenhouse, irrigate, harvest, prep ground, move out and tag plant sales, go to market, pack CSA. Before we know it another week has gone by and more has gotten added to the to-do list than eliminated. Although there is so much to do,...
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While the weather has been wet and cold, when asked how the season is going, I can’t help but grin and say, “Great!”. Somehow we have been managing to take advantage of the dry-weather windows as they come, short as they may be. Currently we have salad mix, scallions, pac choi, radishes, Hakurei turnips, beets, carrots, peas, Walla Walla onions,...
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