Farmers Almanac

Check out This Awesome Slide Show of Our CSA
January 12th, 2010
One of our subscribers has put together an amazing slideshow of our CSA from 2009, which can be accessed here. If this slideshow doesn't make you want a CSA from Growing Washington, nothing will. The music that accompanies the slideshow is not the Willie …
2009 = like five total posts. Can we do better?
January 12th, 2010
Evidently farmers are not meant to be bloggers. At least not last year. We started this here blog (or Almanac, as we call it) back in January of ought nine, and so far our track record has been abysmal. It is not that we didn't have anything to report--qu…
Hey! It's March!
March 11th, 2009
Brrrr! I can't believe how cold it has been. For the record, we had a significant amount of snowfall on March 8th, and have been experiencing fairly strong freezing temperatures on both the 9th and 10th. Spring, they say, is about 10 days away. We just sw…
Broke Down
March 5th, 2009
Things are coming along at the farm. The greenhouse in the back by the raspberries is up, we are pruning the blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries, and we have sets of broccoli, cabbage, beets, kale and cauliflower ready to be transplanted outside.…
Snow...
February 27th, 2009
After getting our peas direct-seeded outside 2 weeks ago and getting them covered with remay, mother nature decided to hit us with a blast of snow at the farm. And some considerable cold. Hopefully the peas will make it, but only time will tell. That's…
The Season Has Officially Begun!
February 22nd, 2009
Although there really is no beginning or end to the farming season, there is, undoubtedbly, a sense of rebirth as winter fades into spring. This year our goal was to plant peas on Presidents' Day, and we officially missed our target at both Alm Hill and 2…