{"id":10873,"date":"2013-07-28T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T05:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=10873"},"modified":"2013-07-28T23:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:49:17","slug":"skokomish-valley-mid-summer-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/skokomish-valley-mid-summer-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Skokomish Valley Mid-Summer 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re blessed with but a handful of spins on our solar roulette wheel, each bringing with it but one spring, one summer, fall, and winter respectively. Each has its special grace, its own beauty for which we’re grateful. For we know only too well, like the leaves on a summer’s day, first we wither, then decay.<\/p>\n

The Skokomish Valley has the richest top soil in Mason County and among the most scenic territorial views. Families who settle here tend to stay. There’s hardly any point in moving elsewhere. Having lived here, they consider Heaven redundant. Some have been here for generations…mostly farmers. Their labors are timeless. They hand down a tradition of love for the land…a land wrested at great emotional cost from the indigenous tribes such as the Skokomish. It’s a land that has been exploited by voracious corporations like Simpson, trashed by thoughtless residents dumping their rubbish in the wood, cruelly releasing their unwanted pets to the wild, poaching elk, stealing timber, encroaching in a thousand ways upon the gift nature bestowed. Still the land retains its beauty despite the pollution, the haze, the aquifer contamination, the dumping. Its marvelous presence remains to inspire all with souls not yet deadened by a consumer society driven by a lust for all that’s disposable.<\/p>\n

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Sacred Mama<\/p><\/div>\n

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Season’s Bounty<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bucolic Bounty<\/p><\/div>\n

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Volunteer Firetruck<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rolling Stock<\/p><\/div>\n

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Skokomish Transport<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hunter Creek treeline<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hay Rolls<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sun Dried–Air Cured<\/p><\/div>\n

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Disc Tool<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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Firetruck for Timberlands<\/p><\/div>\n

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Equipment Trailer<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soil Disc Implement<\/p><\/div>\n

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Weaver Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

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Aquatic Garden<\/p><\/div>\n

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Weaver Creek salad<\/p><\/div>\n

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Paul Hunter’s Farm<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tansy Ragwort<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stairway to Heaven<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crab Apple Tree on Art Tozier’s farm<\/p><\/div>\n

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Territorial View w\/Sentinel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ghost Cedar Sentinel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rightfully Suspicious Mama & Calf<\/p><\/div>\n

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Summer Colors<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tools of the Farmer<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tractor, Bailer, Rake<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hoop Hothouses<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tomato Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n

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Richert’s Produce Stand<\/p><\/div>\n

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Local Produce<\/p><\/div>\n

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Patronize Your Local Farmer<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer<\/p><\/div>\n

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U-Pick or We Pick<\/p><\/div>\n

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Old Glory Shines over Richert’s Farm<\/p><\/div>\n

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Summer Music<\/p><\/div>\n

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DIY Salads<\/p><\/div>\n

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Richert’s Farm Dog<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sorting Produce Displays<\/p><\/div>\n

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Absolutely Fresh Produce<\/p><\/div>\n

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Table Fare<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fresh Skokomish Carrots<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fresh Beets<\/p><\/div>\n

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Banana & Pasilla Bajio Peppers<\/p><\/div>\n

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Honor Thy Neighbor<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Greening of America<\/p><\/div>\n

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Skokomish Squash grow well<\/p><\/div>\n

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Skokomish Corn<\/p><\/div>\n

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Honey Suckle Vine Shrouding Richert’s Produce Stand<\/p><\/div>\n

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Farm Economics<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Cuke Picture<\/p><\/div>\n

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Organic Produce<\/p><\/div>\n

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Butterfly Bush<\/p><\/div>\n

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Grass Fed Beef<\/p><\/div>\n

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Halcyon Daze<\/p><\/div>\n

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