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Early Spring
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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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Children should have the option of farming as a career
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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. The link to the original article is here. The individuals on the SkyRoot team…
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Glorious Summer
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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 at the front of the field with green. Behind them, this year’s potato crop…
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Early March
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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 rejoice in warmer days and longer days and the flowering plum trees. In this…
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Newsletter Wk 4
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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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Spring Reading Group
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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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Fall
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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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The developing organism
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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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Beez
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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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Breaking Ground
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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…