Apparently I had no time in 2025 to report on what we did. That’s a shame because lots of hard work was done actually, and lots of good food grown. Inside is a brief summary of what we were up to. Apologies for being so late!
But. To understand what we did in 2025 please consider the Big Picture context within which we were trying to accomplish our farm goals. In general it was a year of crazy making. It was one damn thing after another, outrage after outrage and it has left many of us weary of the chaos. We have a dictator wannabe in the White House, a compliant legislature and a SCOTUS that presumes immunity for anything the president does. Including to the guy who incited an insurrection on J6 after the 2020 election he lost. Yes, 2025 was a real mess. So far in 2026 things are much more of a mess but that’s a story for the next post. For now here’s the summary of our 2025.
February got cold, we had some snow, and busted our pump housing in a freeze.
Early March we set to thinning some trees around the home property and later the horses helped skid them down to where we cut, split and stack firewood. We managed to put up about 6 cords. March also was the month to haul the sailboat out for maintenance and bottom paint.
Also in March, we decided we would do the farmers market again and the Farm Tour in September also. So we got the usual cast of characters going inside, like multiple brassicas, lettuces, and spinach. And we started some tomatoes and peppers but for planting in the home hoop houses, not down on the valley floor. Got the garlic mulched, pruned the fruit trees along with the blueberries and raspberries.
Early April was still quite wet and we were pulling at the bit to get going. Mid-April saw onions plants set out, potatoes dropped in, and the harvest of purple sprouting broccoli pick up. Mid April we also transplanted spinach, chard, lettuce, kale, katrina cabbage, mini napa cabbage and bok choi.
3 generations of the ladies I love. At the 1st Chimacum Farmers Market of the 2025 season
May finally had soil temps above 60 so we planted about 1400 row feet of various dry beans, including the Aggasiz pinto bean. Snap beans joined the Harui snow pea in the home garden soil. Later on we got about 2500 RF of the “flinty dent” Wildfire corn from Adaptive dropped in the field and planted into about 15 trays. Cucumbers also got planted late May, as did the winter squash. We skipped zucchini and summer squash this year. Jersey Devil sauce tomatoes, about 2 dozen, were planted into a couple hoop houses with a smaller quantity of various peppers. Basil, parsley, dill, and cilantro. Winter squash, Golden Pippin and Butternut were started in trays then set out on woven cloth. Pickling cukes and Marketmores were set out also.
June, July and August was a blur. Weekly cycle of weeding, succession planting, irrigation, harvesting for market. Etc.
September, October, November, December
All in all a good year for the farm. We increased sales at the Sunday market, and also with the Corner Farmstand. Had another good year for garlic including selling 75 lbs seed garlic. We sold much of our corn to La Cocina PT restaurante. We once again discovered our mental and physical limits. Over the ensuing couple months’ downtime we made a real effort to not work every day all day, to spend more time reading and to not spend all our time doom scrolling on the stupid phone.
See you next blog post, hopefully not too long from now!