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...

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...

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...

We’ve been trying to finish up the spring chores before the official start of summer. Lots of weeding, composting, mulching, watering,...

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...

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...

Atlas defends the farm from a turkey vulture flyer a couple hundred feet high! Turkey vultures (sometimes called buzzards) are large dark...

We added 16 groups of two different narcissus flower bulbs a few months ago in the orchard and they are doing great. Narcissus flowers,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A wonderful way to top off the Thanksgiving feast is with an incredible Gravenstein apple pie! One of our favorites is made with...

John spent the last few days winterizing the apple orchard. He added wood mulch around all the trees and plants and got the irrigation...

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...

Roxy has acquired a taste for Pacific Crabapples and blackberries. No, she hasn’t gobbled up the profits —just the leftover fruit from...

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...

After getting the FARM Fund Grant from the Agriculture Guild in May to regenerate the San Juan Islands, John and his nephew, Shane,...

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...

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...