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Happy Pride Month! The greens continue to provide, while we plant for the summer and fall. This week we welcome the lacinato kale, aka dino kale. This crowd favorite will surely be popular so we made sure to plant a large patch this year. Expect to
Chicory season is officially here (@chicoryweek 4eva) with the beautiful patch of frisée modeled here by part of our harvest crew. The blanched interiors are quite exquisite, making for a beautiful addition to our salad mix, but also lovely on
This weekend the weather was perfect. I was back from a lovely family vacation to Southwest high desert, and the potatoes were calling our name. Caidy and I snagged Dusty from his pasture, and went on a long walk to cultivate and hill the potatoes. I
As you have seen on this newsletter through the ages, farming requires basic handiness in many different skills. Horticulture, plumbing, animal first aid, human first aid, excavation, carpentry, chemistry....even algebra! However, there is an oft-ove
Last week marked the return of the horses to the farm after a spring of grazing grass elsewhere in the valley. Now with row crops planted, we’ve got some regular work to do together. See me pictured with reliable (if sometimes stubborn) Dusty k
This may be the closest I feel like a witch. Or maybe a fairy. Mixing rock minerals and other amendments, then sprinkling them across the farm, harnessing the power of soil science and a bit of magic. It’s a dusty job, but one I delight in
Downtown Walla Walla Farmers Market 9-1 🥬🫜🥗💖
The great pepper pot up has begun! As we prepare for the first outdoor market of the year, marked annually by the snowball viburnum bloom, we also hunker down in the potting shed to handle, one by one, all 8000+ pepper plants to give them more space
DON’T WORRY. We are reentering radicchio season. Anna and I planted the first patch of 2026 radicchio last week on a glorious day, surrounded by the clover and vetch, both ready to explode with their blooms (expect some pollinator habitat photo
We have one tunnel on the farm we got used from the local nursery. It came with the number 16 on it (out of the 50+ tunnels we took from), so we named it “Sweet 16.” It’s a quonset style tunnel, meaning it has a rounded top, no
This time of year, I’m in (what feels like) constant motion: picking things up and putting them down somewhere else, switching irrigation, opening and closing tunnels, setting folks up with tasks while planning the next. It’s a lot of usi
It’s planting day at Hayshaker Farm! We’re channeling Samwise from LOTR and his love of PO-TAY-TOES by putting in over 1000lbs of seed down and dreaming of all the ways we’ll eat them. Opening furrows with the horses, laying do