Summer Harvest Day and Open House
Sunday, August 18 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Cloud Mountain Farm Center will be hosting an Open House and Summer Harvest Day. This is an opportunity for you to come out and visit to learn about the various crop and production trials and internship program happening here. We’ll have stations set up with a […]
Greens Harvesting Machine in Action
A little better view of the greens harvester in action. This was shot at the production trial growing at Cedarville Farm.
Winter Garden Varieties
We had a great turnout for our Planning and Planting your Winter Garden workshop the last weekend in June. One request I had from several attendees was for a list of my favorite hardy varieties, things you can plant now and harvest fall, winter, and spring. So here it is, Terry’s favorite winter garden varieties. […]
Intern Projects: Working for Sustainability
Intern Profile: Sean D’Agnolo Sean is a carpenter by trade. Originally from Minnesota, he moved to Seattle to be close to family. The desire to start a landscaping business with his brother lead to his discovery of Seattle Tilth, through which he connected with a Puget Sound farm, where he worked four days a week […]
Leafy Greens Harvesting Update
In our three year leafy greens trial, part of the grant allowed us to purchase equipment for seeding and harvesting the greens. This equipment is being used at the farms in the trial, and is housed here at Cloud Mountain. This piece of equipment will allow very fast and efficient harvesting of greens, including mixed […]
UFO Cherries
or Upright Fruiting Offshoot Cherries An ongoing project at Cloud Mountain is ‘the cherry tunnel’. In 2005, we began this growing trial in which we grow sweet cherries inside a 180′ long, 32′ wide high tunnel, trained to a trellis system. Why grow cherries this way? Sweet cherries in Western Washington have several challenges, especially […]