Just down the road, at the corner of Kitchen-Dick and Old Olympic Highway, is the Weyerhaeuser Sequim Seed Orchard. Once a year you see these funny little machines all over with seed pickers at the controls. The seed cones are all picked by hand. For some reason they don’t pick all of them. It’s fun to watch.
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Great photo! Looks like a very labour intensive job!
Very interesting. I love photos like this that explain how things are done. Massive machine just to pick seeds!
So this is how the seed companies harvest seeds, huh? I had no idea.
Those trees look heavy laden!
What a labor-intensive process. Thanks for the window into it.
I have taken the Weyehaeuser Mill Tour before but never realized that’s how they harvested seed for future trees. Its interesting to see that its not automated. Not much left that’s done by hand these days.
Hmm, I’ll have to google this. I am wondering if picking off the cones might help the living trees in some way?
glad it’s not me up there!
Interesting method and information. An eye-catching photo, too. The Weyheuser family originally is from St. Paul and several member of several generations went to the school in which my husband attended as an adolescent and where I taught English for 28 years–small world. Lovely people, incidentally.