Food for the body and soil
Fertilizer spreaders …
as well as pest and weed control. Our chickens and rabbits are on the job! As the spring rains mix with sun, and the soils slowly warm up, we have been starting seedlings in the nursery and readying our garden plots for early season planting. This year we have enlisted…
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Apple tree plantings
The 100+ year-old orchard on our farm was planted by native Klallam man Boston Charlie, likely in the late 1800’s, most likely to fulfill one of the requirements for a Federal Land Claim. When established, the orchard extended at least three times as far as it does now, toward the east across what is now…
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CSA Membership – Community SupportING Agriculture
I want to highlight the participation of our CSA membership this week as the news around the annual National CSA Week draws attention to the transforming experience of CSA involvement for individual households and the broader community. At Wild Edge we seek to engage our members in the community act…
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Growing our local food system
In the Wild Edge household, we regularly eat the freshest of fresh food, one of the perks of managing a farm. We spent a couple days recently butchering cockerels as part of forming our next flock of laying hens. Our younger son Jake started dreaming of chicken burritos as he…
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Babes in Winter
Our barn is full of babies, from the 5 new litters of piglets, to the 38 chicks that hatched in our incubator, to the 3 litters of bunnies born unanticipated in the rabbit hutch. They all grow so fast! We were happy to share the baby love with several families…
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Heritage resilience
You’ve gotta love our heritage Tamworth pigs! We have been creating new spaces this year in the barn for winter housing of our livestock. You may have seen our previous post “High and Dry,” where we moved the Tamworths up the hill in time for December’s heavy rain and snow.…
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Workin’ in a Winter Wonderland
With most of our animals living comfortably in the barn these past weeks, we are enjoying a lighter work load. The garden, too, is at rest. We planted the last of the garlic just before Christmas, then covered those beds plus the remaining winter carrot beds and the fava beans…
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High and dry
With all the rain these days, we have been grateful for our sturdy barn. We’re giving our pastures a break during these heavy, wet rains. We’ve generally used our high tunnels for livestock during the winter. This year we had late squash and tomatoes still growing as the rains descended…
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Our winter treasures
It’s been a good year for squash! I spent some time this morning salvaging a bin full of butternut, buttercup, delicata, mini hubbard and Sweet Meat squashes that had developed soft spots due to excess moisture. When our youngest son Jake came home from school this afternoon, he noted the…
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Wild Edge Farm. Food for the body and soil.
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Farm to Food Pantry participant as registered by the Washington State Department of Agriculture
Member of The Livestock Conservancy
Jim and Karen Weaver
Photo credits: Weaver family and Isaac Gautschi