A fridge full of fine food

As we approach the first harvest week for our 2024 CSA, I am pleased to begin thinking about the meals people will prepare over the next several months from the bounty of our farm. But this past weekend I had the pleasure of harvesting not for our CSA membership, but alongside my daughter who had…

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Summer’s eve in the pasture

One of the great joys of working with animals is witnessing their contentment.  We treasure the peacefulness and beauty of an early summer’s evening near dusk with the night song of the birds and the swishing of lush grasses underfoot as we move cattle to fresh pasture.   By regularly moving the fences we can encourage…

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Crescent School lunch offers Wild Edge pork/beef

Linnie Didier, Head Cook at Crescent School was all smiles as she served locally raised meat for lunch. Meatballs made with local Wild Edge pastured pork and grass fed beef were served on noodles with garlic bread and several choices of fresh vegetables and fruit. The high school and middle school students were the first…

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2023 Collaborative Market-Style CSA

With this springtime rain and sunshine, our gardens and pastures are green and growing, and a new season of local food is upon us.   Wild Edge Farm, The Sawtooth Ranch, and Hidden Penny Farm invite you to join us for another year worth of our Collaborative Market-Style CSA and enjoy a diversity of local farm products from May-December.   The…

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Helpers

I’ll bet you wish you had helpers like these to mow your yard and improve your grasses! With the mix of sunshine and rain that we have been enjoying this month, the grasses in our pastures are shoulder high. We are grateful when we can count on our animals to eat it down. Here at…

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Abundance

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,…

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Putting 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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A week in the life of five food security responders

As farmers there are few things we appreciate more than when the food we are offering is sought out. These past few weeks have offered that opportunity in unexpected ways. We have been touched by the calls, emails and texts we are receiving from Port Angeles eaters desiring local food as a response to food…

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What’s cookin’? Hamburgers and fries by Jake

Few dinners call to me like hamburgers from our own Wild Edge grass fed beef served with fresh homegrown potatoes. Especially when I’m the chef. I love it when my parents let me cook dinner! Here’s what I did this time. I started with some Wild Edge beef patties that I’d pulled out of the…

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Welcome to Wild Edge Farm!

We are happy in this New Year to begin sharing with you more about our regenerative family farm, and to invite you to take action with us in some of the increasingly important local and global issues we all engage in with our food choices. Jim has spent most of his life involved in the…

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