Food for the body and soil
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…
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…
Sweet!
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…
Don’t count your chickens
Do you remember the beautiful chicks that we incubated in April? Well, now they have become the young hens and roosters you see below. They are growing well, and enjoying a safe and happy, though perhaps boring, life in the barn. The hens will begin laying eggs in a couple…
Rain 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…
It’s piglet time!
Morning sunshine makes for tender moments. And many piglets make for playful activity! One more mama to go! How many babies to you think this sow is carrying?
EBT 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…
Mulching for moisture
We are counting on straw this year as the answer to maintaining moisture and suppressing weeds. This morning I hopped out of bed at 4:30, highly motivated to cover our newly seeded beet, carrot, Hakurei turnip, pea, and arugula garden beds with a thick layer of straw. It was such…
An evening stroll
Yesterday Jacob and I were quite surprised as we arrived back home at twilight. Right in the driveway near the house was one of our sows busily grazing the edges of the driveway with a little mob of piglets all around her. She had busted through her pen in the…
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…
Wild Edge Farm. Food for the body and soil.
We accept EBT/P-EBT and SNAP Market Match.
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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