SongCroft — Self-Sufficiency Newsletter, School, Farm and Family

Back From Northwest Herbal Faire!

Please don’t forget to check out our all-natural skin, body and hair care products at www.songcroftnaturals.com Last week I spent four days at the NW Herbal Faire. I arrived at midnight after running my farmers market booth. This meant packing up and working all day at the market, returning home to off-load and re-load new [...]

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We love WWOOF’ers!

WWOOF’ing on SongCroft allows for time to connect with nature and yourself! To support our family farm, you can purchase products through www.songcroftnaturals.com Thank you! Summer has been a little different for us this year on SongCroft. The sun has only shown itself enough to make us remember what we’ve [...]

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Quick Update

One of the many ways you can support our farm is to purchase our prducts. If you are going to buy all-natural personal care products, why not support a farm in the process? www.songcroftnaturals.com Let me apologize in advance for the lack of blog entries of late. Things are always hopping here on the [...]

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Interns Wanted

High 65 Low 40 Clear sunny day with some crispness Want to live on a farm for the summer? It is that time of year. The time when interns are moving on to farms all around the country in hope of learning how to grow food, work [...]

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Snohomish Farmers Market

High 62 Low 34 Clear and slightly warm. Visit www.songcroftnaturals.com to support our family farm and to get great all natural skin and body products! Visit the Farmers Market Thursdays 3-7pm I’m not even going to put the date on this entry since I am embarrassed how long it took me to get around to [...]

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Wind Storm

Fifty mile per hour winds are predicted in our area today. The hens are running for cover. It was sunny and but chilly just an hour ago. The goats were prancing around and the hens were all piled on the cabin porch enjoying the rays. Looking outside my windows I can see the cedar trees [...]

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My Favorite Fruit Trees (Well, some of them anyway)

High 34 degrees Low 8 degrees Clear with 6 inches of snow over night that began to melt in the late afternoon, becoming a solid sheet of ice in the evening. I was recently asked to share my favorite fruit tree varieties here on the blog. My apologies for taking so long but now is [...]

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Wilderness Survival Skills Anyone?

Wilderness survival skills teacher, Jason Patterson I am really glad to let folks know that we are now offering wilderness survival classes! Our goal is to reconnect people to ancient technologies and to the wonders of the earth. Wilderness survival classes are a great way to accomplish this. Our instructor Jason Patterson has 25 years [...]

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To Do List

52 Degrees outside (75 Degrees in the greenhouse) Clear and sunny all day! So I figure that I would go ahead and try to keep up on the “To Do List’ and report back to everyone here on how it’s going. So far things are going well. As you might recall, finishing Brian’s shop is [...]

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