Wild Edge Farm happenings
Sweetpotato Project
We hosted a demonstration at the farm this week for propagating and planting sweetpotatoes. Clallam County WSU Extension is sponsoring a second year of sweetpotato trials to encourage production on the Olympic Peninsula. The program is funded through a grant from Western SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education). The process of sweetpotato production begins in…
Read MoreInspiring a love of place – Field trips to the farm
We’ve been sharing the farm with some local students this month. We hosted the environmental science classes from the Port Angeles High School one day, and Jefferson Elementary students another, with Dry Creek classrooms coming this week. Along the river the elementary students played a game of salmon survival led by a team from the…
Read MoreEBT and SNAP good at Wild Edge Farm
We are excited to announce that we now accept EBT, P-EBT and SNAP Market Match at the farm and for all our deliveries. The Washington state Department of Health has an incentive program for all EBT and P-EBT users to encourage the purchase of food that is locally grown and raised. This program, called SNAP…
Read MoreAbundance
Last night the 48 chicks in our incubator started hatching. By morning we had about 30, and by early afternoon 40 had hatched! I am very pleased. As you can see, the diversity of chicks from our hens is strong, and they are very healthy and content. While I was tending the chicks this morning,…
Read MoreNeighbors inspiring neighbors – Rosalie Kaune
We hope with this recognition to mark the anniversary of each month of the pandemic by highlighting a member of our local farm community whose sense of community and agri-culture and sustainability can point the way for all of us and reawaken our own commitments. We want to keep fresh the experiences of the early pandemic reality,…
Read MoreMuch is incubating these days
This has been a busy time of incubation at Wild Edge Farm. In addition to the 48 chicks we are hatching in our incubator, the fertile soil in the market garden has been building tilth and microbes all winter, and is now ready to generate a season worth of healthy plants. With many winter hours…
Read MoreRebecca Jeans Morel
Rebecca comes from a litter of 14 piglets. Unfortunately, the first 10 of Rebecca’s siblings were stillborn because of a uterine torsion prior to birthing. Consequently, the sow’s milk production, which had been readying itself for a large litter, virtually shut down, and the mother pig forgot that she had piglets to care for. Within…
Read MorePumpkin 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.…
Read MoreMany hands…
We invited our CSA members to help harvest peas and potatoes this weekend. It turned out to be a great day for it. With a big field of potatoes and several different groups, we all enjoyed the chance to chat while socially distancing. We got the peas in just in time, and dug up lots…
Read MorePutting up hay for winter
Adolphsen’s Farm had some good hay and straw bales available this summer. Combine that with Jim getting the conveyor belt working in the barn, and we were able to put away an ample supply for winter — a chore that required plenty of teamwork.
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