Growing real food in beautiful Graham, WA
2018 Recap and Plans for 2019 Hello friends! First, thank you for your support during 2018 and helping it be a success. We wanted to provide a quick recap of 2018 and give you an idea of what we have planned for 2019. Yes, this is a long overdue post – with how busy we…
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Summer Update and Check-In Whew! We’ve been way too busy to find time to keep up with the blog and website. For that we’re sorry. It’s hard to believe that Summer is almost over – and still so much to do! I wanted to take a minute to catch you up with what we’ve been…
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Spring update – Full Steam Ahead! Veggies Well it is ON! The Sun is out and has dried out the garden enough that we have been planting and now have a bunch of plants growing in the ground. Our 20-week CSA starts delivery this week – we delayed two weeks due to the weather –…
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Incubating our Turkey Eggs We’ve been collecting eggs from our Bourbon Red Turkeys for the last 2 weeks and it’s finally time to start incubating them! Turkey eggs incubate for 27.5 – 28 days (unlike chickens at about 21 days). Otherwise, the process is about the same. We collected fertile eggs and stored them in…
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An early Easter Egg(er) Hunt! So the other evening while we were out collecting eggs, I looked up and noticed some feathers sticking out between the old boards under the eaves. I first thought that it was just a birds nest since we have some barn swallows that have nested in the barn before. Upon…
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Hatching, Planning, Waiting… Successful Hatch! We successfully hatched out the fertile eggs we purchased as part of our breeding plan and laying hen replacement. The 30 eggs we ordered (and one extra for free) arrived via USPS damaged leaving only 28 for the incubator. Of those, 26 developed and from the 26, we hatched out…
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We’ve been busy here at the farm planning for the 2018 season. We’ll be offering a limited number of Vegetable CSA shares for 2018 and will be sending out details as it gets closer to January. If you’re interested in learning more before then, email us for details. The young hens are starting to lay…
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We’ve been busy as we change seasons – ended with a decent amount of veggies even though we didn’t get the garden planted until late. Definitely learned some lessons to apply to next year, especially as it relates to insect and weed pressure. The rototiller runs again (huzzah!) and it’s been used to get the…
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Finally we have had some good weather which has let us get caught up on our long list of chores. We have added a bunch more chickens, now up to 50 or so, have added another rooster so we can start breeding our own replacement hens, and our turkeys have graduated to pasture. The garden…
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