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Adventures in Eating

This week our farmstand is well stocked with beautiful produce! We have heirloom tomatoes, 5 varieties of summer squash, 3 varieties of cucumbers, onions, green beans, cabbage, leeks, kale, basil, potatoes, and eggplant.

Thursday we returned from the Snohomish Farmers Market with some unsold produce (basil, tomatoes, eggplant) and a beautiful loaf of Sea-Salt Focaccia bread from The Cottage Bakery. We made a simple basil pesto (with just basil, olive oil and Parmasan cheese). We sliced the focaccia, smeared it with pesto, topped it with sliced tomato, grilled eggplant slices and fresh mozzarella. Honestly, it was the most delicious sandwich we have ever eaten!

And for one of the best and simplest soups you will ever taste – try our leek and potato soup recipe.

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A huge crop of cucumbers

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.

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Farmstand Fun

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 customers – please take note: There is a box to accept cash payments, and posted QR codes for payment by Zelle, Paypal, or Venmo. If farmer Mark happens to be nearby when you visit, payment by credit card is also an option. If you anticipate making a large purchase, text us at 425-268-2198 so we can harvest precisely what you need exactly when you need it.

High &Dry Farmstand is at 32814 120th St. SE, Sultan, WA 98294

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Available this week at our Farmstand

High & Dry Farm’s self-serve farmstand presently has these certified organic items for sale-

  • Vine-ripened heirloom tomatoes $5 per lb
  • Cucumbers $2 each
  • Green onions $4 per bunch
  • Bagged salad mix $6
  • Bunched kale $4
  • Fresh basil $4 per 2 oz clam shell

Farmstand address: 32814 120th St. SE, Sultan, WA

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Summer has finally arrived

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 start harvesting these warm weather veg, but in the meantime our self-serve farmstand has bagged salad mix, cabbage, kale, green onions and an assortment of bunched herbs.

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Join us at the Farmers Market!

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:

  • Red radishes
  • French Breakfast Radishes
  • Cilantro
  • Head Lettuce
  • Mint
  • Salad (hakurei) turnips
  • Tomato starts
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Tomato starts are here!

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 St. SE.

Order and prepay on-line before pick-up.

We have the following varieties: Abe Lincoln, Amish Paste, Arkansas Marvel, Aunt Ginny’s Purple, Aunt Ruby’s Green, Aussie, Austin Red pear, Beam’s Yellow Pear, Benviento, Big beef, Bison, Black Beauty, Black Cherry, Black Krim, Bloody Butcher, Brandywine, Camp Joy, Carbon, Cherokee Purple, Dingwall Scotty, Earl of Edgemont, Estiva, Flamme, Frachetta di manduria. German Johnson, Goose Creek, Grandpa’s Minnesota, Ibsen’s Gold, Ilses Yellow, Impulse, Jasper, Kellogg’s Breakfast, Kimberly, Lucky Bee, Manitoba, Neve’s Azorean Red, New Hampshire Surecrop, Olga’s Round Yellow Egg, Peace Vine, Prescott, Pruden’ Purple, Sakura, Salvaterres, San Marzano, Sebastopol, Ste Lucie, Stupice, Sungold, Sunpeach, Tommy toe

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Farming Software – Organic Farmer 4.0

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 I am an intrinsically disorganized person, I have created a relational database to facilitate keeping and maintaining the required records. The database is now on its third iteration of improvement. The beauty of the database is that it runs in the cloud on Airtable, which allows access by smartphone from the field, as well as via web browser from a laptop or desktop computer.

Annual recertification of an organic farm requires an inspection that typically takes two to three hours, with most of this time devoted to auditing farm records. During High & Dry Farm’s most recent certification inspection, Airtable allowed me to power through the audit, which was completed within one hour, with no significant issues reported.

We am now making this database system, Organic Farmer 4.0, available to farmers completely without charge. Sign up for a free Airtable account here. Once you have signed up, download a copy of the Organic Farmer 4.0 database to your Airtable account here. Detailed instructions for use of Organic Farmer 4.0 can be found here.

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Persephone 2023

Persephone: By Wolfgang Sauber – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

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.