Green Roof
Ben seeded the top of the new root cellar to start its green roof with clover and wild flowers. The root cellar is nearly done and a...
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John Latimer
Mar 41 min read
381 Trees
We just finished planting 29 more fruit and nut trees, bringing us to a new total of 381 trees in the orchard! We added 17 apple, five...
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John Latimer
Jun 22, 20231 min read
Family Help
It’s awesome to have family helping out on the farm! Our nephew, Shane, has been using a brush mower to control the invasive tansy...
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John Latimer
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Spring Cleaning
We’ve been trying to finish up the spring chores before the official start of summer. Lots of weeding, composting, mulching, watering,...
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John Latimer
May 25, 20231 min read
Just Add Water
We spent the last few days installing irrigation drip lines to all of the 96 new fruit trees. With the dry weather upon us, it’ll...
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John Latimer
Apr 19, 20231 min read
Happy Earth Day
It’s a beautiful day to celebrate the beginning of spring. From our family to yours, have a wonderful and green Earth Day! Held annually...
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John Latimer
Apr 13, 20231 min read
Air Defense
Atlas defends the farm from a turkey vulture flyer a couple hundred feet high! Turkey vultures (sometimes called buzzards) are large dark...
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John Latimer
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Spring Daffodils
We added 16 groups of two different narcissus flower bulbs a few months ago in the orchard and they are doing great. Narcissus flowers,...
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John Latimer
Feb 7, 20231 min read
New Trees!
We’ve just started planting more fruit trees at the farm. In addition to several new apple and pear varieties, we’re adding a couple new...
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John Latimer
Jan 13, 20231 min read
Pickle Patch
John and Ben built a new pickle patch garden next to the orchard. The enclosed garden is 9’ by 30’ and needed fencing to keep the...
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John Latimer
Dec 30, 20221 min read
Back Seat Driver
While John was busy digging drainage trenches, Atlas found a new friend in the back seat of one of Seagate Farm’s extensive “fleet” of...
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John Latimer
Dec 23, 20221 min read
Snowy Holidays!
A foot or so of snow means no work on the farm for a couple of days. Atlas enjoys it much more than John though. Great Pyrenees are...
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John Latimer
Nov 22, 20222 min read
Gravenstein Apple Pie
A wonderful way to top off the Thanksgiving feast is with an incredible Gravenstein apple pie! One of our favorites is made with...
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John Latimer
Nov 10, 20221 min read
Ready for Winter
John spent the last few days winterizing the apple orchard. He added wood mulch around all the trees and plants and got the irrigation...
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John Latimer
Oct 28, 20221 min read
Meet Atlas
He’s the newest member of the Seagate family. Atlas is a three-year-old Great Pyrenees and a gentle giant weighing 135 pounds. He needed...
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John Latimer
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Eating the profits
Roxy has acquired a taste for Pacific Crabapples and blackberries. No, she hasn’t gobbled up the profits —just the leftover fruit from...
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John Latimer
Oct 9, 20221 min read
Harvest Time
John and Ben spent the last few weeks picking the Pacific Crabapples at the farm. Even though the other apples and pears didn’t like the...
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John Latimer
Oct 1, 20221 min read
New Bee Plants
After getting the FARM Fund Grant from the Agriculture Guild in May to regenerate the San Juan Islands, John and his nephew, Shane,...
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John Latimer
Sep 22, 20221 min read
Mending Fences
After chasing a few deer out of the orchard, Shane (John’s nephew) spent the last few weeks improving the deer fencing for the farm. Now...
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John Latimer
Sep 8, 20221 min read
Big Toys
When you’re playing in a big sandbox, you need big toys. John had a lot of fun learning to operate the excavator this past week at the...
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