Greg: What’s your name and what is your role on Heyday Farm?
Sebastian: My name is
Sebastian Edgerton. I’ve been working here at Heyday Farm for two years now.
When I started I was hired as a grunt laborer, but last year I got hired as a
garden manager or lead.
Greg: Can you explain to people what Heyday Farm is and it’s
mission?
Sebastian: Heyday
Farm is a 25-acre farm on Bainbridge Island. Basically trying to revitalize the
land. We have two farms. The Whiney and Peterson farm. They used to be
farms way back when, but have been fallow for a long time.
Greg: What do we have on the farm?
Sebastian: We have
primarily animals. We have a heard of steers, dairy cows, and 30 pigs rotating.
They take about I want to say 4 months to get big enough to be butchered. Then
we have about 700 mixed breeds of chickens. 500 for eagling and the rest for
meat chickens. We just got in our turkey chickens last week. 125 and will
be butchered first week of November. And then the garden we have 3.5 acres
split on both farms. Where we do a mix of crops trying to plant a little bit of
everything. Today, I’m picking our last stowing of super sugar snaps and spring
peas. Both 50-day harvest a super short season.
Greg: What got you interested in farming?
Sebastian: Well, starting when I was 12, all legally though
started helping my parents and their big garden. Got 12 acres up in Chimacum
and then just started helping neighbors on their farm. Worked on flower farms,
seed farms, a couple market farms. Farmed all the way up till 20 when I stated
to go to college for journalism over at Idaho State.
Greg: What is a memorable experience you had on the farm?
Sebastian: Hmm that’s a tough one. They’re all such
wonderful experiences, but transplanting is a highlight. It’s a nice team
activity. Were all there laying out the plants, digging them. Trying to race
each other to see who gets it down in the bed first. Um, but I guess one of the more exciting parts was when about a year
and half ago. We had a bull on the farm at that point. Do you remember Valiant?
He charged one of our employees who used to work here and got out on the road
actually. So it took a couple of hours trying to coax him back in, because you
cant really force a 4,000 pound bull to do anything he does not want to do.
