Food for the body and soil

Crescent School lunch offers Wild Edge pork/beef

March 27, 2024

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…

Pigs in pasture are good for your health!

February 28, 2024

Have you every had the pleasure of pasturing a pig? Their enthusiasm is contagious. And it’s great to watch them eating thistle and other highly nutritious but often-avoided greens. The secret is to limit the time they are in the fields. This keeps them grazing only and avoids overly disturbing…

Sweetpotato Project

June 1, 2023

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…

Inspiring a love of place – Field trips to the farm

May 31, 2023

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…

Know farmers, know food

May 27, 2023

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…

2023 Collaborative Market-Style CSA

May 13, 2023

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…

Hatched in the hayloft

June 1, 2022

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…

Fertilizer spreaders …

April 6, 2022

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…

Apple tree plantings

March 30, 2022

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…

CSA Membership – Community SupportING Agriculture

February 25, 2022

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…