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the Colinwood Farm stand, at 1219 F St., is open all hours year-round and operates on the honor system. Pick out your produce, weigh it, calculate the cost and drop your cash in the honor box.

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Story & photos by Nicholas Johnson of the Leader

For Jesse Hopkins, trust is everything.

“The new wave is knowing your farmer,” said Hopkins, who for four years has managed the 22-year-old Colinwood Farm at the bottom of F Street in Port Townsend.

“We’re a direct-to-consumer farm.”

With a total of 9 acres of production – most of which sits in historic Happy Valley – the farm produces certified organic vegetables, from patty pan squash to peppers, leeks and beets, all (and more) of which is available year around in an old garageturned-farm-stand out front.

“Being in the city, it’s really a great thing to be able to open this place up to the community,” he said.

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the honor system. Equipped with a hanging scale, oversized calculator and a well-secured payment drop box, the producefilled room remains unmanned and open at all hours.

Originally operated as a fruit stand and flower shop in the early 1990s by Elizabeth Crockett, the stand had trouble making ends meet. Crockett employed a full-time salesperson to operate the stand until it was converted to a community sup-

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“With the CSA not working and us paying a high price to employ someone to work there, we decided to create an honor system,” said Hopkins.

When Hopkins came on board, the stand had been dormant for a couple of years. By August 2008, he and land owner John Gunning had begun filling it with fresh produce, and a handful of area residents began patronizing the unstaffed stand.

“We’ve got a dedicated group of people that come in, but we haven’t tapped into nearly any of the population of Port Townsend,” he said. “People still don’t know it’s there.”

For the past four years, See FArM, Page 11▼

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Little & Little on the rise after construction slowdown Story & photos

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W

hen the housing market crashed, so did the construction industry.

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Now, after a few tough years, Bob Little says his 32-year-old company is making a comeback – albeit a slow

one.

“Nobody had any idea it was going to run as deep or as long as it has,” Little said of what nationally is being called the Great Recession. “We’ll move forward slowly as everything builds back up, but we may never see the levels we saw some years ago for many years, if ever.”

The local construction industry was booming from the mid-1990s through 2005.

At the peak, Little & Little had 20 field employees split into four or five teams. The company found work easily and often turned away smaller

projects. It averaged four to five full-size, single-family housing projects a year, along with various commercial and government jobs. Work came so easily, Little said, that he and his staff were able to pick and choose.

“There were years when all of our work was in Port Townsend, almost exclusively,” said Alex Little, Bob’s son who has worked as a project manager for his father’s company since graduating from college in 1999.

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Jefferson County’s booming real estate economy peaked in August 2006 in terms of sales and sale price. Constructionrelated businesses (builders, landscaping, architects, floorSee LittLe, Page 12▼

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FARM: Paying a living wage key to success ▼Continued from page 3

Jesse Hopkins manages Colinwood Farms with

the help of several farmhands, who are paid Hopkins said, the farm’s $13 an hour. owner John Gunning said he’s focus has been on securing dedicated to paying employees a living wage. booths at various farmers markets around northwest “It’s amazing this amount Washington. He said the farm of land is being used for now does business at six marcultivation in the city.” kets a week for as long they run.

“We’ve been through a fourJesse Hopkins year period of establishing ourfarm manager selves at farmers markets,” he said. “We’re there. We’re in, and “We’re such a small farm that now we can start focusing on the we wanted to maximize what we farm stand.” could get out of our yield,” he Hopkins said the stand brings said. “We’re trying to simplify to in about $20,000 a year, which make money. Coordinating 10 to which both he and Gunning is just short of breaking even.

12 small accounts and five farmagree comes from a well-paid He said the stand, as opposed ers markets on a weekly basis core of farmhands, who earn $13 to markets and wholesale, has is a lot more work and brings in an hour. the most potential for profit. In less money. We don’t have the “In the past, we’ve paid people fact, since he’s been on board, volume to be an effective whole- $8 or $9 an hour and they just the farm has completely shifted saler.” don’t stay,” he said. “We don’t away from wholesale accounts, However, Hopkins said, profit have to make a huge profit for it which at one time comprised as isn’t the goal. Rather, the goal to work here. We’re never going much as 60 percent of sales. is a financially sustainable farm, See FArM, Page 20▼

A farmhand picks patty pan squash at Colinwood Farm in Port townsend.

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LITTLE: Small jobs save day for father, son ▼Continued from page 7

ing, appliances, carpet cleaning, interior decorating, etc.) began feeling a change by late 2007, and the bottom fell out nationally in the fall of 2008. The housing market here is still weak in 2011 as property values drop and sales struggle to match 2010 levels, which were only slightly better than 2009.

As homeowners

found their financial nest eggs withering away, the Littles began noticing customers backing away from previously planned jobs.

“We had a number of projects slated to start that people had to delay or cancel when things crashed hard,” Alex said. “It created a hole we knew we needed to fill, and we knew the big projects just weren’t happening.”

However, the

“One of the keys to our success these last two years has been a lot of specialty and remodel work for past customers.”

Alex Little project manager financial impact to the company didn’t become apparent until late 2009, after many long-term projects had wrapped up.

First came major reductions in both office and field staff,

with the company’s 20-person roster of field staff being cut to four. As contracts for new homes dried up, the company shifted its focus with a campaign declaring, “We do pintSee Little, Page 25▼

Little & Little’s three project managers – Jody Maberry, Bob Little and son Alex Little – say the company is well positioned for slow recovery following the 2008 housing market crash and the resulting construction industry slowdown.

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Brandon Ellard & Jim Larson opened the Water St. Creperie in March 2010, in downtown Port Townsend, optimistic about Water Street’s future. A crêpe is a type of very thin, cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. Creperies are popping up as a fast food alternative in other parts of the country.

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POTTERY: Studio opening on Water Street ▼Continued from page 8

Some chefs, such as Arran Stark, say it is the beauty of the basic red terra cotta pottery that attracts them.

Stark was so taken with the Huffmans’ pottery that he requested special ramekins for his crème brulée.

Coffee roaster Michael LeDonna says it is the flavor the pottery imparts that drew him.

He did a blind taste test at Better Living Through Coffee, and people said they could taste the difference between coffee that dripped through the

pretty pottery filters and coffee that dripped through plastic filters.

Whether it’s the look or the enhanced flavor it seems to give food, by catering to the desires and needs of local businesses, the Huffmans’ pottery has been spinning off the wheel. It’s to the point where the couple is having trouble keeping up with demand and is expanding the business to a new studio in downtown Port Townsend.

The studio, to be located at 820 Water St., No. 1, in downtown Port Townsend,

“It should be beautiful and easy to take care of.”

Phoebe Huffman Daily Bird Pottery will be dubbed Daily Bird Pottery. It’s set to open in time for the November Gallery Walk.

“It should be beautiful and easy to take care of,” said Phoebe of their pottery, which has been known for several years now as “naked pottery,” because it’s not glazed.

“It’s art. It’s for daily use,” said Darby of the pottery, which the two use –and put to the test – daily.

A taste test

A tour of their home studio one summer day included a taste of dinner made in two large bowls that they also happened to be testing.

Not surprisingly, there was local food in that locally made pottery. Purple potatoes from Colinwood Farm teamed up with pork, carrots, mushrooms, leeks and onions, See Pottery, Page 23▼

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FARM: Stand features other local products ▼Continued from page 11

to make huge profit, because it’s not a family-run farm.”

Hopkins said selling produce directly to the consumer on the basis of trust makes the most business sense – the farm gets a larger piece of the profits, and the consumer gets the freshest possible produce.

“A lot of the reason we haven’t started advertising is because we are still growing as a farm,” he said. “We’ve brought on a lot of farmers markets and haven’t been able to fully stock the farm stand. We wanted to wait until this point when we are able to understand our production levels well

Jesse Hopkins waters new crops in one of the many greenhouses at Colinwood Farm.

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“As bigger organic farms come on line, I hope the people’s trust in small, local organic farms doesn’t get watered down.”

Jesse Hopkins farm manager enough that we can fully stock the farm stand.”

While the stand overflows with a diverse selection of vegetables and flowers from June to October, Hopkins said, during the off months of November to May he buys vegetables, coffee and jam from other local farmers and producers while purchasing fruit from eastern Washington. Either way, he said, consumers can trust it’s all organic.

“As bigger organic farms come on line, I hope the people’s trust in small, local organic farms doesn’t get watered down,” he said. “The word ‘organic’ is going to become less and less important; it’ll be the name of the farmer you’re buying your produce from. Do you trust somebody in Washington [D.C.] telling you what’s safe or do you trust the farmers in your community to bring you safe food?”

Hopkins said the farm works with various programs in the Port Townsend School District, allowing OPEPO students to plant and harvest potatoes, and Mar Vista High School students to keep beehives. Some children haven’t yet accepted the farm stand’s honor system, though.

“The majority of people are good, trustworthy people,” he said. “Our biggest trouble has been 15and 16-year-old kids trying to get into our money box.”

Hopkins said Gunning sometimes visits classes at Grant Street Elementary to teach them about the honor system at the stand, which he said some have come to know as the free store. But even that hasn’t convinced Hopkins to staff the stand, largely because the cost of employing someone always costs more than losing some produce to theft.

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all steamed in the oven after the pork was browned on the stovetop.

Because the pottery is fired to 2,053 degrees, Darby knew the bowls could be used in ovens and microwaves, and be safe for the dishwasher. But he wanted to test a pot for stovetop cooking. Using a diffuser on an electric burner, he browned some pork in one of the pots. It worked; the pottery didn’t break.

So after browning the pork, he put a few sprigs of herbs in the pot and added the vegetables. “[The pottery] keeps the flavor, so we have to be careful not to overspice,” Phoebe said.

Gallery Walk

It seems as though a lot of things the Huffmans do is by trial and error – and a healthy helping of curiosity.

The conversation about whether their pottery enhances flavor, for example, all started with a disagreement over the quality of a glass of wine and a follow-up taste test during Galley Walk.

“I had made the stem for a goblet, so

Darby Huffman says it took him years of practice and now only a few minutes of patience to throw a piece of pottery. It took him only a few minutes to turn a chunk of red clay into a bell.

we went to toast this new goblet. [Darby] grabbed one of his little cups. We poured the wine, and I said, ‘This

is terrible wine.’ I was drinking out of glass.

He liked the wine, and I didn’t. I tasted out of his cup, and his was

good. So we went ‘ohoh,’” said Phoebe.

Darby made some See POTTERY, Page 24▼

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POTTERY: ‘Coffee, wine, beer’ all taste better ▼Continued from page 23

small single-serving wine-tasting cups and started doing tastetests during Gallery Walk at the Port Townsend Gallery, where the Huffmans’ work has been for sale for the last few years.

Out of more than 400 people who have

tasted the same wine in a plastic cup and in a pottery cup, 95 percent think the wine in the “naked pottery” cup is better, said Darby.

“A majority like the wine in our cups and we serve cheap wine,” said Darby. “It softens whatever is in it.”

Some people even bring back those little

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wine-tasting cups on Galley Walk nights – going from gallery to gallery for sips of whatever is being served.

“Coffee, wine, beer, tea, sake, Scotch, orange juice, hot chocolate,” said Darby.

“If there’s a bitterness, it cuts the bitterness.

Isn’t that weird?”

“We keep trying to

figure out why,” said Phoebe.

Darby told of one scientist who stopped by the Huffmans’ booth at the farmers market in Bothell and insisted he knew the secret to the taste mystery. He said it had to do with negatively charged ions.

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LITTLE: ‘We cater to every bit of local work’ ▼Continued from page 12

sized projects, too!”

“People saw us as only doing big projects, so they wouldn’t call us for small stuff,” Alex said. “We really needed to shift the perception.”

Weathering the storm

The company began picking up myriad remodels, renovations and retrofits, often accepting jobs that required a half-hour or more of travel time.

“During the 2000s, which was the heyday in the industry, we were able to be really selective about the projects we took on,” Alex said. “It was amazing how often our projects were within a 10- or 15-minute drive from the office. Now, it’s become easier and more necessary to manage projects farther out of town.

We’ve tackled projects in Port Angeles, Sequim, Quilcene, Ludlow, Neah Bay and Poulsbo.”

Beyond accepting jobs farther from home and embarking on a multitude of remodels, retrofits and add-ons, the company opened up to the smallerproject needs of local customers, such as seismic retrofits, home

inspection repairs as well as weatherization and energy upgrades.

“We cater to every bit of local work that exists,” Alex said, including follow-up work with previous clients.

“One of the keys to our success these last two years has been a lot of specialty and remodel work for past customers,” said Alex, including a houseboat.

Even a houseboat

For the past six months, the company has been constructing in the Port of Port Townsend shipyard a 30-by-40-square-foot house, which sits on a 6-foot-high concrete platform filled with foam. Bob said the client, who already owns a houseboat on Lake Union, decided it was time for an upgrade to accommodate a growing family.

“It’s a very limited market,” said Bob Little, who added that nearly all houseboat projects consist of upgrades or replacements, rather than new development. “The thing that we do differently from anyone else is that we do the float and the house.”

Though the company doesn’t have another

“We’ve had to regroup our company to work at a whole different sales volume. We’ve done that and we feel good about it. There’s probably not a job today that we would turn down.”

Bob Little owner Little & Little Construction

houseboat project lined up, Alex said, that single project represents between 20 and 30 percent of its annual workload. He said the company plans to launch and tow the houseboat to its permanent home in January 2012.

On the upswing

Financially, 2010 proved the toughest year, though Bob said work has slowly picked up since spring of this year. His field staff is up to 10 people – about half its precrash peak.

“We’ve had to regroup our company to work at a whole different sales volume,” Bob said. “We’ve done that and we feel good about it.”

He said that although the company is now more tuned in to projects coming out of Seattle and Tacoma than ever before, it still caters to local customers and their needs.

“One thing that’s helped us is that we have a lot of loyal customers,” Bob said.

“We’ve done a lot of small projects for longterm customers.”

Government projects have gone from about 5 percent of the company’s annual workload to about 10 percent, and Bob said the company is bidding more of those local government jobs.

“We’ve always done projects for the city and the county,” Bob said.

“We’re bidding more of them today.”

In the past couple of months, the company hired Jody Maberry as a third project manager. Full-size housing projects average out at about two per year so far, meaning the company continues to depend on small projects.

Bob said, “There’s probably not a job today that we would turn down.”

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POTTERY: Huffmans’ functional art sells well ▼Continued from page 24

“I know why your cups do this,” Darby recalled the man insisting. “If you look inside your little cup with a magnifying glass, it’s a big mountain range.

You pour your wine in there, and all the positive ions are sticking to the little bumps, and you’re drinking negatively charged ions, and that’s why your wine tastes better.”

Oddly, negatively charged air – like that you would breathe in while standing near a waterfall or the ocean – reputedly gives people a sense of well being.

“Every time I sit down and make a bird, it’s a moment of meditation.”

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What’s giving the Huffmans a sense of financial well-being is watching their business expand.

“Right now, art isn’t selling as well as it used to, but we are,” said Phoebe of the functional art.

In fact, even Gov. Christine Gregoire left Port Townsend with one of their bells recently.

Phoebe Huffman sculpts a bird to be used on a bell that Darby throws by hand. She and her husband Darby have had a studio in their home, but are expanding to 820 Water St., No. 1, in November in time to open for Gallery Walk weekend.

The Huffmans have made bean pots and pepper pots for a Brazilian restaurant,

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They’ve created steampunk mugs with just a little touch of glaze that makes the cup look like it has rivets down one side.

And they’ve also made a habit out of helping businesses showcase their products. Many of those businesses were connected to the Huffmans at the Port Townsend Farmers Market.

Mt. Townsend Creamery asked for cheese dishes that it could bake Brie in.

Phoebe added a little mouse to the top of the dome.

Harmony Soaps wanted a soap dish.

Midori Farm wants crocks for kimchi, and Green Gables Gardens wants vases. Phocus Farms of Sequim has requested planters for sedums.

Now, Daddy’s Muesli, a growing Port Townsend business owned by Sheryl Morgenstern and Tim Lambert, wants mama bear, papa bear and baby bear bowls to sell with their breakfast cereal, which they also sell at several farmers markets.

The Huffmans’ naked high-fired pottery also has solved a problem for one Port

Townsend restaurant.

The Banana Leaf, which features Thai food, brought back dishes from Thailand to contain a signature dish of mussels and scallops that is baked and then served at the table. But the dishes from Thailand were so porous, the county health department wouldn’t approve them for use because they couldn’t go into the dishwasher, said Darby.

The plate that Darby created, with its seven little lids, works for the presentation, and all of its pieces can go into the dishwasher.

Although Better Living Through Coffee owner Michael LeDonna says he’s not sure about the taste difference himself and still uses stainless steel filters, he didn’t want to use plastic filters. So he asked the Huffmans if they could make a coffee filter just for his coffee.

“The people I trust with good palates, people like my daughter Sadie [LeDonna], she has a younger palate, and I trust her, say they can taste the difference. Besides, it’s local,” added LeDonna, noting that if people ask about the filters at his stand at the market, he has them shuffle

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down the street to the Huffmans’ booth.

“We get about two people a week who buy coffee filters from us because of that,” admitted Darby. “We made [coffee filters] and traded them coffee for them, which we thought was a good deal.”

Trading pottery for food also has been good for the Huffmans’ pantry and freezer.

potter years ago, he gave it up after the birth of his second child, and the couple concluded they needed to earn more money to make ends meet. He’s had several careers, including carpentry and sales, most recently selling cabinets.

When the real estate market crashed and people stopped buying cabinets, Phoebe made a suggestion.

“The people I trust with good palates say they can taste the difference. Besides, it’s local.”

Michael LeDonna Owner Better Living Through Coffee “Last week, I traded for blueberries. I traded two wine cups for a flat of blueberries. And from the other blueberry lady, because I like her, too, she wanted one of my big cookers for a chicken, so I may get 12 flats of blueberries for that,” said Darby.

“We’ve traded for honey, jam, apple pie, bread,” he said.

It turns out farmers like pots, so they’ve traded pots for vegetables with Colinwood Farm. And one farmer traded a goat roast for pottery.

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Although Darby started a career as a

“You make really cool stuff, and I’d really love to work with you,” Phoebe told him, reminding him of his pottery past.

“This feeds my soul,” Darby said while sitting at a pottery wheel, making bowls and bells, pots and dishes of all sizes and shapes.

A few feet from him, Phoebe worked on sculpting a bird that will go on top of the bell. “Every time I sit down and make a bird, it’s a moment of meditation,” she said.

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