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Category: Farming

Springtime. So much to do. So little time.

May 31, 2014 Petrina

Tomorrow is June 1st.  Originally this post began, “It’s May already.  The last few months have been a blur.”  I’ll…

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Posted in: Farm life, Farming, Growing Filed under: Farming, Growing, Planting, Skylight Farms, Small farm, Snohomish, vegetables

Season’s End

December 10, 2013 Petrina

It was a good great first season.  I didn’t have as much time to blog about the experience as I…

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Posted in: Farm life, Farming Filed under: Community supported agriculture, CSA, Farm life, Farming, Learning to farm, Organic farming, Skylight Farms, Small farm, Snohomish, Starting a farm, Success

Here today, gone tomorrow

September 5, 2013 Petrina

Our season definitely hit its crescendo over the last couple of weeks.  It’s the beginning of September and we’re still…

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Posted in: Farm life, Farming, Mother Nature, Organic farming, Plant diseases, Tomatoes Filed under: Diseases, Farm life, Farming, Growing, Mother Nature, Organic farming, Tomatoes, vegetables

Timing is everything

July 10, 2013 Petrina

In the farming business, timing is everything.  Well, timing and weather.  As it turns out, we’re having a great year,…

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Posted in: Farming, Growing Filed under: Farming, Learning to farm, Skylight Farms, Small farm, Spinach, Starting a farm, vegetables

The very hungry caterpillar

June 19, 2013 Petrina

One of Griffin’s favorite books is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  He’s memorized the story and is always excited to see…

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Posted in: Farm life, Farming, Growing, Organic farming, Vegetables Filed under: Cutworms, Farming, Growing, Organic farming, Pest management, Small farm

Cows

May 25, 2013 Petrina

I started to write a post about food safety but it started to get a little heavy.  So I thought…

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Posted in: Community, Cows, Farming Filed under: community, Cows, Family farm, Farming, Small farm, Snohomish

Crop Mob

May 13, 2013 petrinafisher 2 Comments

The word “mob” conjures up images of large groups of angry, rowdy people just looking for trouble.  Thankfully, things were…

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Posted in: Community, Farming Filed under: community, Crop mob, Farming, Getting dirty, Learning to farm, Neighbors

You say po-tay-to, I saw po-tah-toe

April 18, 2013 petrinafisher 1 Comment

When you know little about farming (like me), it’s hard to appreciate how much time and energy goes into preparing…

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Posted in: Farming, Vegetables Filed under: Growing, Planting, Potatoes, vegetables

Pulling plastic aka Greenhouse construction, part 2

April 12, 2013 petrinafisher 3 Comments

We took advantage of the break in the weather to pull the plastic* on the greenhouse.  It’s easy to underestimate…

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Posted in: Construction, Farming, Greenhouses Filed under: community, Greenhouses, Learning to farm, Starting a farm

Greenhouse construction, part 1

April 4, 2013 petrinafisher

We made tremendous progress on the construction of our first greenhouse on Tuesday.  BIG THANKS go out to our friends…

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Posted in: Construction, Farming, Greenhouses Filed under: community, Greenhouses, Starting a farm

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