Third White Christmas in 100 Years

Farm News

This year gave Seattle and surrounding areas their third white Christmas in 100 years − incredible! Late on Sunday afternoon, Christmas Eve, the farm was aglow with large white flakes sticking to the hardy, remaining vegetables and quiet, resting tractors. The total accumulation by Christmas morning was 2.5 inches and snowfall around Seattle was recorded at 2.2 inches, well above the required 1-inch marker to be considered a measurable amount for the history books.
We are graced with beautiful, snowy Cascade and Olympic Mountain ranges where snow falls in record amounts annually, but to see snow falling in the city and low-lying valleys is unusual. When it happens on Christmas and the night of Santa, it is truly extraordinary and epic!

As a family, we found ourselves strolling, at midnight, enjoying the quiet, magical moments of snowman engineering and sledding. We have never ushered in Christmas in this way and as it caught us all by surprise, it was exceptional! To see all the trees and plants hanging low with snow and twinkling lights on the darkest day of solstice in the northwest just turned into the brightest night all year!

Our farm cats’ footprints from the barn to the heated warm greenhouse were the only remnants that life was stirring the next day. Too cold and snowy, we halted all harvesting until we could see melting and temperatures warming up. The greens are quite hardy and will have no problem rebounding; it is our human hands that cannot quite endure the harvest. Luckily, we can depend on similar farms in warmer climates, like Capay Organic and other California farms, that have beautiful greens to supplement our colder season to still eat domestically grown food. We enjoyed beautiful broccoli, Bosc pears, Butternut squash and Yukon potatoes from the box over the holidays and look forward to a new month in January in which we lighten our meat consumption and pile up on fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

Happy first week of 2018! Don’t forget to find us on Instagram @fullcirclefarms.
– Wendy