Updated Saturday, March 21, 2020 Local farmers offering Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs are busy preparing for the upcoming season. Most CSA options provide weekly boxes, allowing residents or businesses to subscribe in the early spring for a full season’s worth of produce. The content of the boxes differ by farm, however generally include vegetables
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by Grow Northwest Local berries are here, and the rest are ripening soon! Following are some of the u-pick family farms in our northwest corner. Keep in mind some locations have not yet opened for u-pick, depending on varieties and weather. Please contact the farm prior to visiting to confirm availability and hours, and follow
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by Mary Vermillion Shannon Smith tells visitors that MyShan Dairy is a 4-H project that got out of hand. What started as a hobby for her daughter has grown into a family dairy business with 50 Guernsey cows producing up to 800 gallons of milk a week. And Shannon and husband Mylon Smith are not
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All welcome to learn about livestock, grains, and speciality crops by Grow Northwest Residents and visitors are invited to attend several farm tours and events designed to share information about livestock, grains, and more. Ranching for Resilience—A Field Day for Producers and Consumers Roots of Resilience, Matheson Farms and North Cascade Meats – A
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by Jeff Richardson This year has been a rollercoaster ride for our farm, Thoughtful Food, as we recovered from a devastating barn fire in February. The cause of the fire was never determined, but the result was destruction of the housing for our pigs and cattle, the loss of all our equipment, and the death
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MOUNT VERNON – Highwater Farm will host a seed symposium on Saturday, Oct. 3, bringing together seed industry colleagues, policy advocates, and farmers for a speakers’ roundtable, as well as an Open House with a mini workshop about seed identification, harvest and threshing techniques, and more. Door open at 11 a.m. The speakers’ roundtable will
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by Jessamyn Tuttle Jim Sinnema’s family has been in the dairy business longer than he’s been alive. “My dad started the dairy back in 1963,” he said. The family ran a dairy in Duvall when he was born in 1970, then in 1977 moved to a new farm in Silvana in the Stillaguamish river valley.
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LYNDEN – A Lynden dairy farm has received national recognition for its anaerobic digestion system, the first of its kind in Washington state. Vander Haak was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement in Renewable Energy” award during the 3rd annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards sponsored by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. The system turns manure into
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Adult-only session offered April 22 by Grow Northwest Each April, the annual Milk Makers Fest brings 1st grade students to the dairy farm. The Whatcom County Dairy Women hold the event for both public and homeschooled students to learn about the milking process and daily life on a dairy farm, including care, feed, irrigation, fertilizing crops,
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Spinners Eden Farm will host its annual fiber sale and open house on Saturday, April 12, featuring a number of northwest Washington farms. Spinners Eden Farm raises award-winning registered CVM (California Variegated Mutant)/Romeldale sheep. Along with breeding stock, they sell raw fleece, roving, and other wool products. The annual event is also an open house,
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