Food system
CSA 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 MoreGrowing our local food system
In the Wild Edge household, we regularly eat the freshest of fresh food, one of the perks of managing a farm. We spent a couple days recently butchering cockerels as part of forming our next flock of laying hens. Our younger son Jake started dreaming of chicken burritos as he plucked, and by dinnertime he…
Read MoreOur 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 wafting fragrance of the squash…
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 MoreDon’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 more months. Unfortunately, that isn’t…
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…
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