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As the season changes and spring begins to approach – I think I feel it in my body – the farm feels it for sure! It comes as a dramatic shift in the feeling landscape long before it is manifest in any piece of plant growth or farm smell that I can identify –…
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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 (soon to be trained) Oxen. We were inspired by the vision that he and…
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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 about why I farm – at least why I’m farming today! Why I Farm……
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The advent of our CSA deliveries has corresponded with my return to the classroom at UW. This quarter I am again taking up my post within the Program on the Environment – UW’s interdisciplinary undergraduate environmental studies program. This fall I am teaching Environment 100: Environmental Foundations. Sometimes on the tractor I am planning…
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I like to think of the farm as an organism. Thinking about the earth and its ecosystems as an organism was one of the first ways that ecologists approached an understanding of how the living and non-living parts of a system work. Most ecologists no longer think of systems as organisms, but there is…
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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 on top of the bathtub.
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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 so much more real once the ground has been broken. To break ground we…
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Everyone needs a big brother. My younger brother and I think we have got one of the best. There is so much about starting this farm that involves the support of family both near and far from the farm. For me, most of my family is pretty far away. I miss them and I…
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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 work was accomplished. Here is a short list: 50′ of new blackberry removed. a…
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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 way. We have periodic work parties and invite you to watch our website (and/or…