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Tag: Learning to farm

Mobile Coop

March 24, 2014 Petrina

There are lots of ways to build a mobile chicken coop.  A quick tour of photos online shows everything from…

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Posted in: Chickens Filed under: chickens, Farming, Learning to farm, Skylight Farms, Small farm, Snohomish

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

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

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

Bee Day: The Girls Get a New Home

April 27, 2013 petrinafisher 2 Comments

Under most circumstances, I’m calm and keep my composure.  I’ve climbed long multi-pitch routes up granite faces, skied down steep…

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Posted in: Bees, Farm life Filed under: Beekeeping, Bees, Learning to farm, Starting a farm

Bees, bees, bees

April 20, 2013 petrinafisher 1 Comment

This is what 10,000 bees looks like.  We have three of these boxes containing two different kinds of bees: italians…

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Posted in: Bees Filed under: Beekeeping, Bees, Learning to farm

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

A Milestone: Plowed Fields!

March 29, 2013 petrinafisher 1 Comment

Finally, after weeks of anticipation, we finally cut up the sod. Next steps: prepare the beds and set up the…

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Posted in: Farm life, Farming, Tractors Filed under: Farm life, Learning to farm, Planting, Plowing, Skylight Farms, Starting a farm, Tractors

It Takes a Community to Grow a Farm

March 27, 2013 petrinafisher 5 Comments

We’ve all heard the expression “it takes a village to raise a child” and as a mother of two small…

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Posted in: Farm life, Farming Filed under: community, Farm life, Learning to farm, Neighbors, Skylight Farms, Thanks

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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