Thanks for the help

Today we received the help of a lovely woman named Tammie.  She works at a bicycle shop and visits us sometimes on one of her three days off.  She’s worked on other farms before and it shows as she’s a hard worker.  We’re thankful to have gotten her number from another local farmer and from the great folks at Kitsap Community & Agriculture Alliance. Today I planted some blueberries at home while Sara and Tammie did some work over at Lincoln.  They prepared greenhouse three for planting of tomatoes and tomatillos.  3 of the 5 rows in that greenhouse are ready for the second rotation this season now that the bok choy is done, the two remaining rows have lettuce for another week or so.  Tammie and Sara pulled out the remaining and bolted bok choy and weeded and then moved on to greenhouse 2 pulling weeds out of the peas.  (Their getting their flowers!) I arrive with some lunch and one and a half yards of composted steer manure from a local composting facility.  We are so lucky to have three different facilities within 5 minutes from our farming locations.  I am at one of those facilities it seems on a weekly basis.  I buy mostly from Vern’s Organic compost and I hope that since their using the name Organic that the state has made them comply with the certified organic requirements.  We’ve learned that anyone who uses word, organic, is required to comply with the certified organic rules.  We can not label our produce as “organic” as we make more then 5,000 dollars in sales and are not Certified Organic.  To use the word we would have to be certified.  Thankfully our customers in this area appreciate what we’re doing and understand that we really don’t desire to have to pay a fee to label our produce.  I am grateful for the certified organic label but we don’t need to have it right now, maybe soon though.

Hope to arise early and finish planing tomatoes as the biodynamic cycle of fruit ends at 10 am.

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