Word of Mouth Farm

Community Supported Agriculture, grown in King County, delivering to North Capitol Hill, Seattle

Really fresh greens with simple lentils and soda bread

Big farm news heading into 2025!

the GOOD news: I'm moving off the incubator farm at Viva Farms King County to my own land, at the edge of Marysville.

the LESS GOOD news: in 2025 I'm going to be clearing the land, not growing CSA vegetables on it. I will miss bringing you food a lot, but ... it hasn't been mowed or anything for at least some years and the blackberries came in and covered almost everything, ten feet high.

The soil underneath is a treat, it's out of the floodplain (fingers crossed), and the southern exposure is wonderful. Those are the things I can't change! Everything else, well, in the PNW it's brambles that smother Sleeping Beauty, not roses, and we know how to get rid of them. Eventually. There are even surviving fruit trees within the blackberries.

So: no CSA from me for 2025. I'll post some "how it's going" blog entries.

Word of Mouth Farm: 2024

Would you like to cook out of your own garden, but you can't garden right now? Do you live in North Capitol Hill? Let me be your summer gardener.

I sold out in 2024 and will be clearing land for lots of 2025. If you would like to be on the early email list for 2026, email me at farmer@wordofmouth.farm.

You can see the harvest lists for 2024.

Hop to CSA contents, price and delivery for subscription details.

I plant a new small row of something different several times a week. This sets up harvests of young tender crops regularly through the year, changing every week as the seasons change.

I'm a low-input, ecologically cautious, low-till farmer, growing what grows well near Seattle -- greens and summer veg in my current spot, trying unusual crops for a treat, trying crops from warmer climates to adapt to new weather patterns. I use tight planting, row covers, opaque tarps, and a hoe to keep the veggies ahead of the weeds. Drip irrigation both saves water and reduces weed growth. I am not certified organic, but all my seeds and inputs (e.g., compost) satisfy the organic certifier who maintains Viva Farms' certification. (I sublet a piece of their land.)

Economically, I am a CSA farmer: you pay for a share of the year's produce in advance, and I deliver a share of what I grow every week. This shares the risk and also the bounty -- if I get a great crop of something, so do you. If you can't use a delivery, I will deliver it to a food bank for you.

Again, CSA contents, price and delivery for subscription details and how to sign up.

A bucket of edible bouquet with brilliant amaranth behind it, and tall pole beans and corn behind that, and finally the poplars that line the river. The sunny valleys we need to grow booming crops have big blue skies.

The black landscape fabric in the middle ground is less beautiful to the eye, but no herbicides or pesticides is beautiful to the heart. And black landscape fabric can be rolled up for the winter and reused.

contact me: farmer@wordofmouth.farm

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