Author Archives: Eli

About Eli

Eli began working with the soil at SkyRoot in 2012. Along with his partner Sarah and business affiliates and family he helps hold the emerging vision for regenerative practice here at SkyRoot.

Early Spring

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Eli

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 … Continue reading →

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Newsletter Wk 4

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Eli

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 →

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Spring Reading Group

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Eli

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 →

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Fall

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Eli

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 … Continue reading →

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The developing organism

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Eli

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 … Continue reading →

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Beez

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Eli

    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 →

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Breaking Ground

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Eli

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 →

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sowing the farm

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Eli

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 … Continue reading →

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work party!

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Eli

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 →

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The Farm

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Eli

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 →

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