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Category: Growing

Strawberries

June 4, 2014 Petrina

Who doesn’t love strawberries?  When we polled our CSA members last year on which items they enjoyed the most (and…

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Posted in: Fruit, Growing Filed under: Farming, Growing, Skylight Farms, Small farm, Snohomish, Strawberries

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

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

Looks like spring

April 21, 2013 petrinafisher

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Posted in: Growing, Random thoughts

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

What’s growing

April 13, 2013 petrinafisher 1 Comment

Every time I see the little seedlings, they make me smile.  Here’s a little preview of some of the things…

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Posted in: Vegetables Filed under: Growing, Planting, Seedlings, Seeds, vegetables

What’s in a Name?

March 28, 2013 petrinafisher 1 Comment

Flashy Trout Back.  Blushed butter.  Red Sails.  These are a few of the lettuce varieties that we’ll be planting this…

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Posted in: Random thoughts, Vegetables Filed under: Growing, Planting, Seeds, vegetable names, vegetables

Alliums, brassicas, cucurbits oh my!

March 22, 2013 petrinafisher 1 Comment

Once you tell people that you own a farm, the most likely questions to follow are 1) “Do you have…

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Posted in: Farming, Growing Filed under: Growing, Learning to farm, Planting

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