Posts Tagged ‘organically grown produce’
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 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 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 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…
Read MoreMulching 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 a beautiful morning! Cool and…
Read MoreNeighbors inspiring neighbors – Taz Love
We hope with this recognition to keep fresh the experiences of the past twelve months of pandemic reality, and the fragility that we feel when food security, health and safety are of real concern. We want to hold onto the resilience and connectedness and community that were created through these experiences, and the bonds that…
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