Pumpkin harvest
It seems we are always racing to harvest before the rains. This time it was the squash and pumpkins so the sun can cure them before Halloween.
We are excited that we found the perfect sunny field for pumpkins this year, and got a bumper crop of Howden carving pumpkins and Sugar Pie baking pumpkins. With enthusiasm generated for a “family fall festival,” we also had many hands and feet to help haul the harvested pumpkins out of the wet field.
We started harvesting once the afternoon rains had passed, and with so much help from family, even had time to harvest apples before the downpour came again in the early evening!
Wild Edge Farm appreciates a diversity of heirloom apples planted at the turn of the 20th century by a Klallam man named Boston Charlie. These aging trees continue to produce abundantly despite the pressure of the river and, periodically, intensive damage by beaver.
