Mission, Vision, and Goals. And Construction.

Here’s a little of the stuff that has been keeping me occupied since we started our new urban farming business at the beginning of 2012. On the business development side, I have now signed an L.L.C. Operating Agreement,  used my U.B.I. to open a bank account, bought fertilizer using an Agrigultural Reseller Permit, ordered business [...]

On being a software engineer / farmer

I recently started at a new job.  The existential crisis I experienced upon accepting this new position, although brief, was a bit enlightening for me regarding how I see myself and how societal stereotypes about career and class influence us all. Going back in time a bit, I had a quite reasonable phase of career-change [...]

Unveiling my new farm adventure

Now that I have a whole two seasons of apprenticeship under my belt, I’m obviously ready to start my very own farm! I bought a truck, now I’m ready to go, right? Well, ready or not it’s happening in 2012.  I’ve been neglecting my blog lately because I’ve been busy scheming and dreaming about next [...]

A series of unfortunate events

Hey there blog world, it’s been a while since I wrote.  I had a wild few weeks and I needed time to let it all sink in before posting, as it turns out.  Let me begin by sharing what I had started writing on October 8th. I don’t even want to write this post.  But in fairness [...]

Where did the time go? A little September update.

Ummm, so yeah!  How has it been over a month since I last wrote?  I fell off the blog train pretty hard there during August and September.  Not too surprising, I suppose, as they are the busiest months on the farm with too much to do overriding blog writing.  But also disappointing, since these are [...]

Self-reliance

Caution: if you have a squeamish tendency, or you are my parent, you may not want to read this post. Just kidding.  Kind of.  But here’s the tale of my last week and a half! We are entering the upswing of the honest-to-goodness farm season.  The time when you realize that you were just being [...]

Weird farm breakfast #463

Breakfast is a very important meal on the farm.  I’ve always been a breakfast eater (mostly Cheerios during my formative years ) but farm work burns a lot of calories, so these days a nice big protein and carb load in the morning is absolutely necessary to get from 7am start time until noon lunch.  [...]

Oxbow May update – farm life in general.

Farm update! Spring is happening! Lots of planting and a little harvesting. This is the time of year when we do all different types of field prep like pea trellising, tomato staking, and lots and lots of weeding so that the little plants will be happy and grow for us as best they can.  I [...]

Here we go again!

First day of work at Oxbow today.  My lower back is sore, my hands smell like onions, and I’m a happy camper. It’s been an adventure of a weekend!  I was supposed to move out to the yurt on Friday but on Tuesday the crew notified me that a flood warning had been broadcast for [...]

New look

Well would you look at that — I’ve been blogging for a year now!   Who knew that I would enjoy this as much as I have.  To celebrate, I updated the look of the website.  Basically now I can stuff even more info into the sidebars.  Fun! Seattle winter has been going great so [...]