Last call: chickens for pickup, Monday 9/26 at Day Road Farmstand

We have about 30 chickens left to sell. They were processed today, so with the WSDA’s 48-hour pickup requirement, we can make them available for pickup on the farm at the Day Road Farmstand on Monday during the day. Six dollars per pound. They will be a mix of sizes, some small fryers and [...]

Save the vines! Volunteers needed for a Bainbridge crop mob

I grabbed this little flyer the other day at the market, and repost with Betsey’s permission:

Volunteers needed June 11 & 12! Betsey Wittick needs your help to preserve 8 acres of Bainbridge Island wine grape vines!

Saturday 6/11 1:00pm-5:00pm Sunday 6/12 9:00am-1:00pm Sunday 6/12 1:00pm-5:00pm

To join the crop [...]

Pigs

While working from home this afternoon, I realized that since it’s dark when I get home on weeknights, today was my last chance to go meet our pig — they are scheduled to meet Farmer George, the butcher, sometime on Saturday. So we called up Rolling Bay Farm, got directions and went on by [...]

Nuggets

The chicks that were imminent in the last post are now here and huge and out on pasture and more than half of them are claimed already. Yay! So — if you want organic pastured chickens and you’re in the Seattle area and can come pick them up during the first week of November, [...]

We can has irrigation

Folks who are local to us, come on out on Saturday to our new farm and help us install some irrigation! We’ll be there early in the morning on Saturday, so come on by anytime, and we’ll put you to work!

Johnson Farm is on the west side of Fletcher Bay Road, just [...]

I appear to have committed us to growing hops

We were recently interviewed for the newsletter of the Trust for Working Landscapes, the land trust that is leasing us some land. The article came out yesterday, and apparently we managed not to say anything too dumb!

“From Stacks to Starts” — A story of Dropstone Farms By Christy Carr

After meeting in [...]