Posts Tagged ‘organic farming in Port Angeles’
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 MoreKnow farmers, know food
How much of the food we eat comes from regenerative practices? Here in Clallam County we have a growing group of small farms producing fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat regeneratively. Ask your farmers about the practices they employ to grow food. Here are 5 general principles of Regenerative Agriculture: Regenerative agriculture is an approach to…
Read More2023 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…
Read MoreHatched in the hayloft
A rogue hen from our laying flock found a nice nest in among the straw bales in the third floor hayloft of the barn. Despite the impracticality of her location, we let her set earnestly on the eggs for three weeks in the hopes that they might hatch. There are few things as fun to…
Read MoreFertilizer 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 the help of our rabbits…
Read MoreCSA 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 of growing food and tending…
Read MoreSweet!
As we move into fall our vegetables are putting everything they’ve got into making sure they can produce good seed to keep their DNA viable. The result? Extra sweetness and lots of volume. A case in point would be this Swiss chard we sold at the Wednesday Night Street Market last week. Or the Daikon…
Read MoreRain and radiance
What a beautiful rain we enjoyed Friday night and Saturday! After 67 straight days of dry and sun (or something like that), it was a very welcome surprise to receive so much moisture. I hadn’t believed the weather reports about any significant rainfall, so it was especially delightful to hear the steady pattering of raindrops…
Read MoreHelpers
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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