march2018 plowing
We started harvesting peppers this week! This was such a new experience for me - I've never grown peppers before, much less followed them from seed to harvest and then eventually to drying and processing, but now here we are, swimming in purple Islan
Tomato season is in full swing @hayshakerfarm! 🍅💦 find these beauties all over! Walla Walla: @wallawallafoodhub Seattle: @farmstandlocalfoods Spokane: @lincfoods
Wow, it's incredible to see what happens on a produce farm when you leave for a week! I just spent last week visiting my family on the east coast, and the crops really exploded while I was gone. One of our key goals as farmers is to take proper vacat
Cultivating peppers this week under glorious summer skies with a slight breeze. Cameron, Theo, Juni horse and Peat Dog going for a stroll 🩵
Heat wave coming, so we're out cultivating, seeding clover in the corn, and irrigating to prepare. We finished our plowing for fall crops, and we began the big seeding push of broccolini, sprouting cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, fall chicories. It s
Summer time and the farm is cranking! We've been harvesting lots of lettuce, as you can see Etta hauling in a macrobin of romaine for our local orders and LINC Foods in Spokane. Broccolini and other bunched greens have been providing wonderfully, and
Hotter summer weather has been popping up and we're adjusting to the shift. Tunnels are donning their shade clothes and irrigation is running a little more often and longer. In the field, we are nearly done plowing under ground for summer and fall c
The beat goes on--this week we had another busy one @hayshakerfarm 🔥Transplanting the bulk of the peppers was sandwiched between two of our biggest salad harvests ever. Growing our peppers into slightly larger starts is a bit more work but it's give
Trellising has entered the group chat. Now with 500 persian cucumbers and 800 tomato plants in the high tunnel ground, our weeks will be filled with regular trellising--pruning, cleaning, weeding, clipping and overall pampering of summer's joyous veg
It's been very fun to get nerdy and excited about some non-vegetable plants around here lately. Thanks to the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) program, part of the US Department of Agriculture, we're investing in greater long term healt
One of our favorite annual traditions--plowing our small field with a walking plow. 15000 steps per person and we're onto another year of delicious salads, flowers and more. Next week we will cultimulch the field to help it break down all the organic
Year 11 💖