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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…
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High & Dry Farm’s self-serve farmstand presently has these certified organic items for sale- Farmstand address: 32814 120th St. SE, Sultan, WA
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We just finished transplanting the last row of our high tunnel with cucumbers. We have 270 tomato plants and 450 cucumber plants, and all them are growing by leaps and bounds now that the weather has finally warmed, after one of the coolest springs in recent history. It will be another couple weeks before we…
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High & Dry Farm will be vending today at the first meeting of the season of the Snohomish Farmers Market. Join us on Cedar Avenue in Snohomish, 3 pm-7 pm. For sale today:
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Large healthy certified organic tomato plants in “trade” gallon pots, are now available for purchase at High and Dry Farm. These are $9 each, including tax. This is slightly cheaper than the big box stores charge for plants that are not certified organic. Plants can be picked up at our self-serve farmstand at 32814 120th…
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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…
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Fans of Greek mythology know Persephone as the Queen of the underworld, the dead, and of Spring. Farmers understand the Persephone period to be the days when the period from sunrise to sunset is less than ten hours, causing vegetables to struggle to grow. (And farmers to struggle with seasonal depressive disorder). Sadly, at our…
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Construction of our new 30′ x 96′ high tunnel is now essentially complete, and USDA NRCS just inspected it, and certified that it meets their specs, so they will be wiring funds into our account from the grant they awarded us.
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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…
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Yesterday High & Dry Farm was honored by the visit of our congressional representative Kim Schrier. Representative Schrier was the first customer at High & Dry Farm’s new farmstand. Talk about a grand opening!