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In our CSA newsletter this week, we included an excerpt from an article in the Huffington Post.  The link to that complete article is here. That article is a response to a August 10 article in the New York Times.  … Continue reading →

Behold the greenness of June.  It’s hard to keep up with the vegetables and the weeds and mowing the grass once the days are long and the temperatures mild.  Look at how the garlic has grown, filling the straw-mulched space … Continue reading →

The farm train really begins to pick up speed in March — the greenhouse fills up with plants, we get antsy about the soil drying out so we can till, the first farmers market suddenly seems much too soon… We … Continue reading →

This week on the farm we went on a field trip to Sequim to see Noahs’ Farm. Noah is a good friend of ours who has recently bought a 70 acre farm and already has two draft horses and two … Continue reading →

The farm is hosting a spring reading group for some south end folks – this past evening we reflected on what has brought us to farming.   Lots of things bring me here, but here is a poem that I wrote … Continue reading →

    Hey, we have beez!!! Thousands of them! Can you see the Queen?      But we still really love all the other animals we have. Especially these two, which are having a wonderful April day just haning out … Continue reading →

When the sun comes out the to-do list grows as quick as the grass, which is really exciting.  Beth and I just got into the lower fields for the first time today and it felt SO good. The potential becomes … Continue reading →

Many thanks to the folks who came out to the farm for our welcome spring work party!   Welcome spring we did!   I guess that there were about 70 people who stopped by and lent a hand.   An unbelievable amount of … Continue reading →

SkyRoot Farm is a 20 acre farm on South Whidbey Island. Right now we are watching our starts grow and are patiently waiting for the alder and maple trees to leaf out so that we know spring is on its … Continue reading →