High Dry Farm, Sultan, Washington….Certified Organic
Left shows our farm a week ago. Right shows baby onions and lettuce transplanted into our high tunnel the same day. If the rabbits and voles don’t eat every plant, and if we have a few days of sunshine, these should flourish. Check back in a few months to see how we did.
That’s not a tomato. This is a tomato.
“Aussie” heirloom tomato variety. If you visit our farmstand to buy one of these, rent a trailer.
High & Dry Farm Self-Serve Farmstand
32814 120th St SE, Sultan, WA 98294
This is our wash/pack room at High & Dry Farm. This morning we picked 200 lbs of cucumbers and we will be picking more daily for the next 6 weeks. Does one of these have your name on it? Three varieties are available now at our self-serve farm stand, along with heirloom tomatoes and a variety of other produce items. Everything is Certified Organic.
32824 120th St. SE, Sultan – off the Basin road. Payment by cash, Venmo, Paypal, Zelle or, if you happen to catch us nearby, credit card or WIC.
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.
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 latitude, the Persephone period has begun. We will count the days until Februrary 8, when we emerge from Persephone and our veg commence to thrive.
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.
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!
Our USDA EQIP high tunnel grant application didn’t get funded initially, but then USDA found some loose change behind their sofa cushions and belatedly awarded the grant to us. Follow us as we race to get our 30’x95′ veg cathedral completed soon enuf for a Fall crop.
Here is a list of some project milestones:
This was our first experiment in dry (non-irrigated) farming. And what a test it was! This was one of the driest summers in recorded history, with a total of 0.7″ inch of rain-fall July through September. Yet a single 100′ row produced 150 lbs of winter squash! The key, I expect, was that we had one of the wettest Junes in history, creating a reserve of soil moisture that lasted all summer.
Our request to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, for a Local Food System Infrastructure Grant in the amount of $26,416.00 was awarded in full. This will allow us to upgrade our vegetable wash station and install a walk-in cooler for food storage.