1. Name of farm: The Blue Door Farmhouse
2. Farmer’s/Farm Family name: Dan & Traci Escher
3. Street address: 22812 NE Pluss Rd
4. City: Vancouver
5. State (2-letter abbreviation): WA
6. Zip: 98682
7. Phone number: 360-882-1675
8. Email: thebluedoorfarmhouse@gmail.com
9. Website:
Type of Farm/Farm Practices
10. Are you Certified Organic? No
11. Are you Certified Biodynamic? No
12. If you are not Certified Organic, do you use organic production methods? Yes
13. Do you use synthetic fertilizers? No
14. Do you use any of the following: nonorganic pesticides, herbicides, parasiticides, or fungicides? No
Animal Husbandry
15. Do you keep livestock? Yes
16. What animals do you keep?
Chickens (list breeds): variety
Cows (list breeds): Jersey
Pigs (list breeds): Tamworth
17. Do you use antibiotics? No
18. Are the animals pasture-fed? Yes
19. How much and for how long: all the time
20. Do you practice managed grazing? Yes
21. Do you apply compost or compost tea? Yes
22. Do you apply other soil amendments? No
23. Do you use supplemental feed?
For poultry (list type): Locally grown peas, wheat, & naked oats with a mineral supplement. Milk from our cows & scraps.
For cows, sheep, and/or goats (list type): Alfalfa, oat hay, rolled oats & barley at milking, access to Redmond’s salt & kelp.
For pigs (list type): Milk from our cows, rolled oats & barley, excess apples from our orchard, excess hay, and our scraps.
Raw Milk
24. Do you supply raw milk? No
25. Do you keep your barn and milk room clean? Yes
26. Do you keep the cows clean/teats washed? Yes
27. Do you thoroughly wash your milking equipment after every milking? Yes
28. Are cows with mastitis or other health problems excluded from milking? Yes
29. Are cows tested for disease? No
Which tests, and how often:
30. Is the milk routinely tested for pathogens, coliform count? Yes
Which tests, and how often: mastitis tester at milking once a week
31. Is the farm water routinely tested? Yes
32. Are milk and milk products kept well chilled? Yes
33. Other/Explain (list any other routine practices, or explain any of your answers above?
Butchering Practices
34. Do you sell milk? No
35. Meat butchered at a USDA-certified or state-certified abattoir? No
36. Meat butchered on the farm? Yes
37. Describe or explain any butchering practices: Our hogs will be killed at the farm by a licensed slaughterer & taken in his truck directly to the butcher.
Farm Products
38. Please check off the products you sell and list current prices
Pork: $4.50 hanging weight plus cut and wrap
Other poultry:
Eggs (list type, chicken, duck, etc) : chicken eggs-$5.00 a dozen
Honey:
Produce (list typical offerings):
Prepared foods (list typical offerings):
Other: Organic Spicy Herbal Chai 6.5oz bags- $8.00
Organic Moisturizer 2oz jars $15.00
Organic Salves 2oz jars $12.00
Additional Information
39. Do you only sell animals that are raised on your farm at the address listed?
Yes
39a. Details:
40. Are the animals born on your farm at the address listed? No
40a. Details:
We buy our piglets from another family farm in Toledo, Wa.
41. Do you ever purchase animals from auctions or from your processor or do you ever buy parts from your processor (whole pork bellies…)? No
41a. Details:
42. Do you personally attend to your animals at least once a day or do you hire help or farmers to do that for you? Personally Attend
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43. Do you purchase pre-mixed feed from an elevator or do you grind your own? Purchase
43a. Details:
We buy all our grain from a local farmer who grinds & grows his own grain.