Organic Farming Blog

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Tad Hussey, along with his parents, brother, grandfather, and several others are working together to help bring “Keep It Simple”Farm into a new era.  Though currently it houses a store where you can buy seeds and chicks for organic farming, along with a half mile stretch of landscaped organic trail, it will soon be a destination spot for families to come...

Did you know that farms can come in all shapes and sizes? In fact, they can even come in the form marine species. Typically, people think of farms as fruits and vegetables, cows, pigs, and chickens. Now when we think of an organic farm, we think of no chemicals, natural fertilizer, no hormones, and no antibiotics. But, did you know that organic farms can even sustain...

Do you want to do something else with your table scraps then throw them in the garbage? Many of us think the same thing: there are many people starving and here we are throwing food away. Well, you may get something more out of your scraps than a guilty feeling. PCC Natural Market is going to reveal to people a new way of dealing with food waste at its Issaquah...

My bike was stolen last week. Very sad, but probably a bit irrelevant to you I’m sure. But there’s something very ironic about this that strikes me. I spent about as much money on that bike about three weeks ago as I have recently on creating a pretty hefty container garden in the backyard. It’s starting to sprout now. Seed, soil, planters and trellises and a...

We all love coffee. Some of us love it more than others, yet the simple fact is, coffee keeps us going through the day. With so many loving coffee, it is only necessary that we need to produce more of it, and that is just what ENVIRONMENTAL, Human Rights Care and Gender Organization (Envirocare) is doing. They are implementing a four-year project in Rombo...

Jaime Alvarez, organic farmer, is known for his ugly tomatoes. Not really, but he doesn’t care what they look like as long as they taste like heaven and not like photogenic fruit or in other terms, wax! This year is his second year running and operating Beach Plum Farm, and it is still going strong. Alvarez has supplies to local resturaunts and still has plenty...