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Let the Crop Planning Begin!

Let the Crop Planning Begin!

So what’s next for us? We’re currently working on several potential routes to secure a 1/4 acre to farm next year! We’re lucky to have two new farmer incubator sites nearby. The incubators provide some basic equipment and infrastructure and, importantly, highly subsidized land. The applications for the incubator program are forcing us to think through some details that were previously just fun things to think about. Lucky for me, I love the process of making a vague idea come…

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Green Tomatoes

Green Tomatoes

We’ve spent much of the past two Saturdays helping to winterize the farm – pulling up irrigation lines and cleaning beds of lettuce that have gone to seed. As part of the clean up, I’ve been doing a lot gleaning. There is still plenty of usable produce even though the primary commercial harvest is done. And green tomatoes are the most plentiful item that is left as the season winds down. Perhaps the green tomatoes also caught my eye because…

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Save the Fruit!

Save the Fruit!

Seattle is a fruit-filled city. City parks feature old orchards and fruit trees line the sidewalks in many neighborhoods. I’m a huge fan of edible plants in public spaces. But it is painful to witness so much good fruit dropping to the ground. I have to exercise a lot of self-restraint when the tree is on someone else’s property and a little internal voice says, “Save the fruit!”. This is why I love the vision of City Fruit, an organization…

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