Certified organic produce
We sure know how to celebrate the New Year! We just finished rebuilding our propagation house benches. Several weeks ago, voles ate nearly 2000 baby veg plants in our propagation green house.Never again! We rebuilt the heated benches with metal pipe legs that rodents can’t climb and little sheet metal barriers to prevent rodents from…
Dear readers, I have embarked on writing this essay about the present collapse of the American food system. This will be a very long essay, which I will assemble in increments over the coming weeks. Here are a few of the themes I will address. Over time I will expand on these themes, and document…
We just picked 50 lb of Gamay grapes. The Pinot noir grapes will be ready next week. Now if we just had a stemmer crusher machine.
Oh-oh, looks like it is time to restock the farmstand! As word gets around, sales at our self-serve farmstand is becoming pretty substantial. No worries! We are presently harvesting about 40 lbs of tomatoes, 20 lbs of summer squash, and 100 lbs of cucumbers daily so there is no chance we will run out. Farmstand…
Maintaining organic certification requires keeping complete, extensive and detailed records about all aspects of farm work, and requires keeping copies of receipts for all purchases of seeds, fertilizers, etc. Even market gardeners that do not seek organic certification must maintain extensive records to be compliant with food safety laws as codified in the FSMA. As…
After some thought we decided to build our new high tunnel with 4′ hoop spacing, instead of 5′, for added strength, so the planned dimensions are now 30′ x 96′. A big unexpected roadblock is that we cannot perform site leveling or post installation until an archaeologist assesses the site, and NRCS has no idea…
Making progress. The site has been leveled and forms put into place to pour a concrete foundation. Our trusty farm truck has hauled big loads of construction materials. The base and 4 walls for the walk-in cooler have been constructed and await assembling on the concrete foundation when it is complete.
Fresh vegetables are now available from High & Dry Farm’s new farmstand. Vegetables should be pre-ordered, with payment by credit card here, and then picked up the following day at our farmstand at 32814 120th St. SE, Sultan, WA 98294