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This year is the first year we are harvesting a sizable amount of fruit from the farm.  Starting with strawberries this spring, in good quantity, and ending with apples and grapes this fall, we will finally be reaping the benefit of having planted (and carefully tended to) these perennial crops. The funny thing about perennials [...]

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Hooray!  Today marks the beginning of another CSA season, our fifth.  This week we have been thinking back to our first year, the beginnings of Growing Wild Farm.  We were happy to realize that a third of our members are founding members, folks that have been part of this farm experience since the beginning.  Another [...]

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This weekend we hosted our second farm potluck of the year, this time in conjunction with Slow Foods of Yamhill County.  Unlike our earlier potluck this season, which was wide open to both farm members and market customers as well as our greater community of friends, this gathering brought in folks mostly from the Slow [...]

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In the last four years that we have lived here on this property, the summer’s have  brought with them hordes of this nasty, prickly weed.  The first few years, it was hard to squat and work in the veggie field without getting poked, and if we tried to work in our regular, thin gardening gloves, [...]

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This week… We baked in the sun, but the veggies loved the heat and we could use some more of it to ripen some of those heat lovers out in the field! Relished the thunder, lightning, and rain that followed the heat and refreshed all of us, animal, vegetable, and human alike! Spent all of [...]

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