The Tyranny of the Harvest – Looking for Honeycrisp Lovers
August 29, 2020
You can watch summer squash grow. Just have a seat. The plant explodes with six at once. You are hurriedly trying to remember who likes squash, before the fruits look like footballs.
"Would you like to take a yellow squash?",…
Figgly Wiggly – ficus carica, a plant in the Mulberry family
August 17, 2020
Here in the Northwest only certain fig varieties will produce a large quantity of ripe fruit in our short, relatively cool summers. At Freeway Estates we have two of the most appropriate varieties: Desert King and Brown…
Global Gardening With KCD
July 3, 2020
Thank you King Conservation District for helping us learn about sustainably grown vegetables from around the globe!
Last November, Clyzzel (Cly) Samson, the new Community Agriculture Program Coordinator for the King Conservation…
That would not have happened to a white girl.
June 4, 2020
Earlier this week I called a friend in to check on another friend. She and I had a conversation about the protests and about race. She told me a this story. (Names are changed):
... I always told my boys, if the cops stop…
Adiós Allison!
May 19, 2020
Allison got a radish. After a year and a half of hard labor, she walked away with a radish. Now it's a nice radish, for a very nice person. Notice that grin. As if I had given her a new pole-pruner or something. Her smile is…
And This Little Piggy Stayed Home … to sip Nettle tea
April 16, 2020
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) is a perennial plant of the nettle family, Urticaceae. It makes a wonderful tea and, stir fried with cabbage and onion, is stunning (not stinging).
This month, Nancy and I have been stalking…
The Microbes Version of the Thermal Compost
March 13, 2020
The Essence of A Thermal Compost
as told by the microbes, in community
Material Variety
Amy Amoeba begins the compost story, "Wow. I just got thrown onto a big pile with critters I have never seen before."
"Yes indeed",…
Ten Years at Freeway Estates
February 18, 2020
Volunteers who put in 20+ hours last year gathered recently to sip Chestnut soup and brainstorm. Good ideas flowed, including a suggestion to add a sign to the kiosk, summarizing our efforts during the past ten years. Below…
Pathogen-Reducing Compost
January 14, 2020
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Benefits of compost are widely known: 1) enhances water holding capacity, soil structure, organic matter, drainage, and nutrient holding capacity of soil, 2) provides a source of beneficial microbes, 3) decreases…