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Thank you!

We’ve had a great few days here on our farm.  We thank our customers in our communities of Bainbridge Island and Poulsbo, WA.  It’s good to have all the support we can get. We’re working every single bit we can to bring you our heirloom biodynamically planted produce.  Once again, love following the biodynamic calendar.  Really looking forward to learning more about using biodynamic methods.  So far I’m digging on the methods of Elliott Coleman combined with Biodyanmics.

Got the truck stuck in the mud on Friday. Fortunately we had some help out in the form of a lovely couple from Bainbridge named Heather and Shawn. Heather and Sara worked on transplanting broccoli while Jared and Shawn tried for 3 harrowing hours to try to unstick the truck, but to no avail. Jared ended up having to call a tow truck with a wench to pull it out.

Let’s talk Market #5!  We do two markets, Sara’s in Poulsbo and Jared’s in Bainbridge.

We had Tomato starts for the 3rd week.  Going good all around.  Our plants look really healthy and people notice.  Feels great.

We brought to market, in an heirloom variety selection:

• a good number of Lettuce in three varieties.
• bags of spinach which contain a mix of three different varieties.

(So far all varieties are growing well in our double dug raised beds from farming year #1.  We are having problems with one variety not germinating well, it happens to be a year old packet though)

• radishes

• broccoli raab (eating some tonight)

• tatsoi

• kale in two varieties

• salad mix

We have more spinach and lettuce to harvest if your interested and live in our community please email us .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

OTHER NEWS!

We have our electrical fence in!  Time to put it up.  We lost a duck, I saved a feather.  I love and respect all of our animals very much and we are trying our best at making sure they have the best protection.  We are enjoying have these animals to care for each and every day.  I love seeing the ducks go on their crazy runs and wing flapping bursts.  Chickens so far are chickens.  I saw my first cock fight today.  My first owl and bat too!

PS: our camera is still down, and our software isn’t updated enough for the flip camera downloads, but we’re working on it…


Wishing I had a forklift

March 25th, 2009
DeepSeeded Community Farm | Blog

Well, it was one of those farm mornings where a simple task ended up taking half the day.  I had ordered four pallets of rock phosphate from Peaceful Valley, and they had arrived at the freight terminal in Eureka.  If I had a forklift, I could’ve had them dropped off right at the farm, but without a way to unload them from a tractor-trailer, I needed the folks at the terminal to load them onto a flat bed trailer that I could drive onto my farm.

So I borrowed a trailer from a friend, drove to the terminal, got loaded up, and got back to the farm.  The ground here is still a bit wet, so I knew there was a risk of getting stuck… but I needed to get 8000 lbs of phosphate back into my farm, not just to the front gate.  So I put my truck in four-low and gave it a go…

...and I got stuck.  My fall-back plan was to use my tractor to pull the truck and trailer through the gate, but because of the angle my truck was stuck in, the trailer wasn’t fitting through.  So I unhooked the trailer, and pulled my truck away.  In order to hitch up to my tractor, I needed to remove the tiller, and switch hitch balls.  So I did this, got the trailer where I wanted it - but then I still needed the tractor free to offload the pallets!  Once again, I switch the trailer back onto the truck and move into position.

Then it was a matter of lifting heavy pallets off the trailer without forks.  I used heavy straps and lifted with the bucket of my tractor (a bit sketchy?), and finally the job was done.

Would it have been faster just to offload that stuff by hand?  Maybe.  But really it just made me wish I had a forklift!


Three farms are starting from scratch.

They are turning the dirt and hoping to be successful enough to turn a profit, and to become a valuable part of their communities as suppliers of organically grown food.

Peaceful Valley is giving them a head start by offering them special pricing as part of this Freshman Farmer program.

The Farm Blogs

Freshman:
New Farms Coming Soon!
Sophomores:
Daily Grace Farms
Crescent City, CA
Freestone Family Farm
Vernal, UT
Wise Moon Farm
Redding, CA
Graduates:
Coyote House Farm
Palermo, CA
DeepSeeded Community Farm
Arcata, CA
Driftwood Farm
Fort Bragg, CA
EarthDance Farm
St. Louis, MO
Ellwood Canyon Farms
Goleta, CA
Four Frog Farm
Penn Valley, CA
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm
Poulsbo, WA
Home Plate Organic Farm
Orleans, CA
Honey in the Heart Farm
Nevada City, CA
Willow Springs Farm
Penn Valley, CA

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Coyote House Farm
Palermo, CA
Daily Grace Farms
Crescent City, CA
DeepSeeded Community Farm
Arcata, CA
Driftwood Farm
Fort Bragg, CA
EarthDance Farm
St. Louis, MO
Ellwood Canyon Farms
Goleta, CA
Four Frog Farm
Penn Valley, CA
Freestone Family Farm
Vernal, UT
Hand Sown Homegrown Heritage Farm
Poulsbo, WA
Home Plate Organic Farm
Orleans, CA
Honey in the Heart Farm
Nevada City, CA
Willow Springs Farm
Penn Valley, CA
Wise Moon Farm
Redding, CA

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