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OCAL” is a word much in favor these days, suggesting things homegrown, handmade, original, unique and especially representative of the community.

In the Methow Valley, “local” is how we’ve lived for more than 100 years, generating our own land-based, service-based, tourism-based mix of economic forces with ingenuity and creativity.

That’s why the Methow Made program is so genuine — we make, grow, raise, paint, craft, manufacture, brew and bake an incredible variety of things because it’s how we express ourselves and, for many of us, how we live.

The annual Made in the Methow magazine, produced by the Methow Valley News, is intended to showcase the imagination, energy and passion of valley residents who make things you can take home to remember us by. A delightful part of the Methow Valley experience is discovering for yourself what inspires our local producers. Fresh vegetables, fruit and custom meats, coffee, beer, wine, cider, clothing, art, crafts, furnishings, knives, 2

bikes, yarn, fabrics, personal care products — the list goes on and on, and the quality is remarkable. You’ll find them at farmers markets, galleries, studios, retail outlets and even production facilities throughout the valley.

Look for the Methow Made displays in many local stores.

Methow Made is a marketing and branding program developed by TwispWorks, the small-business development campus in Twisp that is also home to many local artists. Made in the Methow is produced in partnership with TwispWorks to give broad exposure to Methow Valley products.

Please peruse our Made in the Methow business directory, which provides basic details about our advertisers, most of whom also offer websites with more information about products and how to order them.

Methow Made is more than a promotional concept. It’s an extension of all the things that make the Methow Valley special.

If you want to experience “local” at its best, you’ve come to the right place.

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Table of Contents 4 7 MADE IN THE METHOW Don Nelson, publisher/editor Darla Hussey, design Tyson Kellie, advertising Sheila Ward, advertising Dana Sphar, ad design/production Rebecca Vaughan, office manager CONTRIBUTORS Ashley Lodato Ann McCreary Don Nelson Marcy Stamper A publication of the Methow Valley News P.O. Box 97, 502 S. Glover St., Twisp, WA 98856 (509) 997-7011 • fax (509) 997-3277 www.methowvalleynews.com On the cover: Mike Jolley of JR Brand with his dog Walter Mitty Methow, the company’s mascot.

Photo by Marcy Stamper

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Marketing the marketer

Methow Made looks to its members for guidance on promoting their products

It's all in the apples Methow Valley Ciderhouse grows many varieties for its traditional ciders

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Everyday leather

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Find it at the farmers markets

Mike Jolley’s durable creations combine artistry with practicality

How does a small business survive in the valley? It’s ‘intentional’

Blue Star Coffee Roasters backs up its quality products with focused planning and execution

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Taking root

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Made in the Methow Business Directory

Methow Natives Nursery raises plants naturally found in the Methow Valley

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Methow Made products are available throughout the valley. Photo by Don Nelson

Marketing the marketer

Methow Made looks to its members for guidance on promoting their products By doN NelsoN

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HE Methow Made program created a brand and logo, launched a marketing effort to promote local products well beyond the valley, established a system of local retail outlets, and heightened valley residents’ awareness of the creativity and entrepreneurial drive that are so abundant in their own community.

Now, in its fourth year,

Methow Made — developed by TwispWorks to build a network of local producers and help them market a wide variety of goods — is no longer a fledgling program and the original federal grant that helped launch it is long gone. So TwispWorks is working on ways to keep the marketing effort vital and take advantage of the recognition it has created for local products.

“From our perspective, the program is solidly established in terms of a brand that people recognize,” TwispWorks Executive Director Don Linnertz said recently. “Preserving that brand is critical to us.”

TwispWorks used a $41,000 federal grant to create a collaborative marketing campaign in 2013, which included development of a • 2016 Made in the Methow •

logo, advertising in Seattle-area publications as well as local media, marketing training for local producers, placement of product displays in local and regional stores, and website/ social media marketing. Now Methow Made must be selfsupporting.

“Salmon,” raku earthenware by Jim Neupert, hangs at the Confluence Gallery where most of the art is made in the Methow Valley.

Photo by Don Nelson

Next level

There are about 40 members listed on the Methow Made website.

Membership is stable, Linnertz said, but TwispWorks hasn’t put a full-force effort into seeking new members.

Quantifying the program’s success isn’t easy, because Methow Made represents a collection of small, independent businesses that make a lot different things and operate with distinct individuality.

A survey that TwispWorks conducted in fall 2014 found that the branding effort has an impact: 83 percent of consumers responding to the survey said that Methow Made has made it easier for them to recognize local products; and 75 percent said that

“The program is at a pivot point,” Linnertz said. “We are looking for ways to add benefits for our members to make it more valuable to them. We’re going to survey our members to get feedback on what we can do. We have an opportunity to bring the program to the next level, depending on what members want.”

Methow Made members pay a fee to be part of the program.

Requirements for participation are that at least 75 percent of a product’s wholesale value must originate or occur in the Methow Valley; products must be available for purchase; they must be adequately labeled; and the producer must have an online presence to facilitate sales.

oN the twiSPworKS CaMPuS they buy a Methow Made product at least

monthly.

Ongoing, upcoming

One goal for Methow Made, Linnertz said, may be to create a centralized distribution system to get local products to local outlets (see accompanying article). Now, each member has to contact each retailer individually to keep items on the shelves of displays that were made for the program. As a result, some of the Methow Made display cases are betterstocked than others.

“It’s very time-consuming” for small producers — some members have only one or two people involved — to make the rounds, Linnertz said.

TwispWorks continues to promote the valley and its products in a number of local and regional tourism-oriented publications, Linnertz said. And three events are scheduled later this year to put the spotlight on Methow Made products:

More than a dozen working artists maintain studios at TwispWorks.

Current partners include artists working in silversmithing, metal work, stone carving, textile arts, ceramics, glassblowing, painting, and print and book arts. Most of the artists open their studios to the public on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Others keep weekday hours as well. For a complete list of artists and their hours, visit twispworks.org/who-ishere/twispworks-partners. t W ispWorks proDuCers inCluDe: • Culler Studios • Door No. 3 • eqpd • Glitter & Grit Silversmith • Lucid Glassworks • Melinda Hannigan • Methow Gallery • Methow Metalworks • Methow Photo Arts • Methow Valley Clay Arts Center • Shivelight Studio • The Spartan Art Project • Studio B • The Studio Project • Terry Hunt Studios • Ward Studio

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• An Agricultural Dinner at TwispWorks on Sept. 4, featuring locally produced foods and beverages.

• The Phoenix Festival on Oct. 8 — a community event celebrating the resiliency, vibrancy and passion for arts and creative practice of the Methow Valley community — will include a vendor fair for Methow Made producers.

• Gear Up for the Holidays on Dec. 10, a shopping program that will be coordinated with the town of Twisp and Confluence Gallery.

There will also be a membership reception in October, Linnertz said, where input will be solicited. “We have to be more proactive to get an idea of what they need,” Linnertz said. q

About Methow Made Basic information

Visit www.methowmade. com for a detailed list of members and their products

Retailers

The Methow Made logo has become familiar and helpful.

Photo by Don Nelson

Mazama • Mazama Store Winthrop • Aspen Grove • Evergreen IGA • Rocking Horse Bakery • Nectar Skin Care Bar • Pardner’s Mini Market • Sun Mountain Lodge gift shop • Winthrop Store Tw i s p • Glover Street Market • Hank’s Harvest Foods • Yard Food C a r lt o n • Carlton General Store

Farmers markets

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• M e t h o w V a l l e y Fa r m e r s M a r k e t.

Methow Valley Community Center, Twisp. Saturdays, 9 a.m.noon • W i n t h r o p M a r k e t.

Mack Lloyd Park (Winthrop Barn).

Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Galleries

• W i n t h r o p G a l l e r y, local artists cooperative, 237 Riverside Ave., www. winthropgallery.com • C o n fl u e n c e Gallery & Art C e n t e r , local and regional artists, 104 Glover St., Twisp, www. confluencegallery.com.

• D *S i g n s , featuring local artists, 109 B N. Glover St., Twisp.

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It's all in the apples Methow Valley

Ciderhouse grows many varieties for its traditional ciders

By Ashley Lodato

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n the spring of 2005, Richard Wasson was visiting his daughter in Salem, Oregon, when he ran across a free publication that featured a local cider maker, Nick Gunn of Wandering Aengus Ciderworks (the name comes from a W.B. Yeats poem). Something about that article struck a chord in Wasson, and after a visit with Gunn, Wasson decided that he — along with wife and now Methow Valley Ciderhouse coowner Lynne — would become a cider maker.

As fate would have it, the Wassons had just the year before purchased 15 acres of derelict orchard in the rich soil of a former lakebed outside Winthrop, with plans to subdivide into three parcels, building on one and selling the other two.

Inspired by Gunn and Wandering Aengus Ciderhouse, however, the Wassons shifted gears and in 2006 grafted scion wood (shoots from superior quality cider apple trees) from Cashmere onto the 150 or so Red Delicious and Yellow Delicious trees in their orchard.

A decade later, the Wassons are growing 16 varieties of apples, all specifically selected and • 2016 Made in the Methow •

Richard and Lynne Wasson at their new Methow Valley Ciderhouse location. Photo by Don Nelson

cultivated to be cider apples.

This is the trick to making good cider, Wasson insists: using cider apples. “Cider apples aren’t always good eating apples,” he says. “In fact most of the time they aren’t, due to the tannins and acids you need to make a great cider.” Methow Valley Ciderhouse’s four ciders have won awards both regionally and nationally; Wasson attributes this to his apples.

Cider’s comeback

Wasson shares something many of us missed in elementary school history class — the fact that Johnny Appleseed was not planting

trees for pies or sauce, but instead for hard cider and applejack; those crops were far more lucrative. People called Appleseed’s fruits “spitters,” meaning that was what you would do when you bit into one of his apples, as they were so tart. But perfect for cider.

“One hundred years ago cider was the most popular drink in America,” says Wasson.

Now, cider accounts for less than 2 percent of alcohol sales nationally, but double that in northwestern cities like Portland and Seattle. And 80 percent of cider consumption happens in three states: Washington, Oregon and

California.

Cider makers believe that they are where fine wines were 30 years ago and craft beer was 20 years ago — poised to capture the American palate, or at least the niche market for those who care about high quality and local production.

Wasson and his fellow cider makers (you do not call them brewers) believe that hard cider’s fall from popularity can be attributed to the use of sweet, fresh-eating apples like Fuji and Honeycrisp or, worse, the use of concentrate from places like China and Argentina.

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France, thus sourcing scion wood from such trees can be a challenge. But the Wassons did their research and with careful sourcing were able to plant traditional varieties that result in the best cider, such as Kingston Black, a bitter-sharp apple of English origin that has become one of the most sought-after cider apples in the United States.

More exposure

For six years, the Wassons

operated the Ciderhouse tasting room and kitchen on the orchard premises on East Chewuch Road. But now, in their seventh year, the Wassons have opened at a new location, at the western edge of Winthrop next door to Lost River Winery’s tasting room. (One can envision many opportunities for collaboration in this positioning — indeed, a pathway already connects the two properties.)

“We wanted more exposure,” Wasson says of the Ciderhouse’s new location. “More visibility.

We wanted to capture that drive-by traffic.” He adds, “We also wanted to develop a venue that could provide fun for the whole family.” Hence the purchase of a climbing wall and batting cages and plans for a seasonal sledding/tubing hill. Hula hooping, too, figures prominently among the options for fun in the yard outside the

Ciderhouse tasting room.

The climbing wall, to which many Methow Valley residents and visitors were introduced at the ’49er Days parade, was an eBay purchase in Ohio. Richard and some friends drove it 2,400 miles back to Winthrop. “We drove over the Continental Divide at 35 miles per hour,” he says, “flashers on the whole way.”

The new tasting bar and dining rooms (both indoor and outdoor) are casual with

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an artisan feel, featuring local craftsmanship. Of particular note is the main bar, built by Gary Phillips, through which a sinewy ribbon of black walnut curves. Thome George’s “buddy bar” (the kind where you stand and lean) is constructed of tamarack from Roger Rowatt’s mill, with textured waves rippling across it.

In the taproom, guests can choose from four Ciderhouse ciders, three guest ciders, five beers, and two Lost River wines.

Meanwhile, the kitchen serves up pub fare: chicken and pork sausages (made by Thomson’s Custom Meats), vegan sausages, salads, and a variety of snacks.

And cider donuts, of course, made from Bluebird Grain Farm’s organic emmer flour.

Should you purchase some Ciderhouse cider to take home, make sure you save the bottles. Wasson will buy them back from you for $1 each. The bottles, which are the swingtop/ bale type, are reusable; their labels are silk-screened on and withstand a commercial washing, so they can be refilled.

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Made because “it’s a great way to connect with the buying public.” Wasson says, “We wanted to really get our products out there. We think the local Methow Made displays and advertising are a great means of communicating our product.” Wasson would like to see Methow Made displays on the west side as well, which sees a sizeable portion of Ciderhouse sales.

To learn more about Methow Valley Ciderhouse, the tasting room and fun center, and where to buy their products in and outside of the Methow Valley, visit methowvalleyciderhouse. com. q

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Everyday leather Mike Jolley’s

durable creations combine artistry with practicality

By Marcy Stamper

To look at Mike Jolley’s line of durable leather briefcases, backpacks, belts and wallets, you might not imagine that his training included designing and sewing gowns to meet official specs for royal balls.

Jolley, who started JR Brand Leather in Twisp a little over a year ago, learned to make garments out of necessity. He had moved back to Seattle from Texas (where he’d ditched all his warm clothing) and was doing outdoor construction work. Looking for clothing that would keep him warm and dry, Jolley scoured thrift shops for old coats, which he took apart and reassembled by adding hoods and extra lining. “I taught myself to put in zippers and add hoods, just to stay warm,” he said.

Once he got going, Jolley employed his design and sewing skills to create eye-catching shirts that he wore on-stage as a drummer in a band. He even put together a fashion show with original music for the models to Mike Jolley traces a pattern before cutting out a piece of gray leather that he got from the Boeing upholstery shop. His new design – for leather sleeves that make lidded canning jars perfect for hot drinks – is in the foreground. Photo by Marcy Stamper

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sing. “I realized how much I loved the creative process,” he said. “I was hooked.”

Besides keeping him warm, making all those garments helped Jolley assemble a portfolio for his application to the highly competitive New York Fashion Academy (which is actually in Seattle) to study apparel design.

Jolley described the curriculum there as intense.

“If you couldn’t do it by hand, you couldn’t do it,” he said.

Among other things, that meant hand-stitching 12 yards of fabric for the hem of the royal gown he created. “It was a great experience,” said Jolley. “It taught me follow-through.”

Still, Jolley already knew he wanted to work with leather and to emphasize function over fashion. “I always wanted to design things for real people,” he said. He experimented

with convertible designs — for example, a leather backpack that could be unsnapped and reconfigured as bicycle saddlebags.

Concentrating on leather was also a natural outgrowth of Jolley’s family heritage. The JR Brand in his business name refers to three registered brands held by his grandfather for horses and cattle.

Jolley is particularly close to his grandfather, a Renaissance man who — in addition to his work breeding and training horses — holds doctorates in Shakespearean literature and military history. Jolley helped his grandfather on the ranch, shoveling out horse stalls when he was a kid, and earning his first saddle for riding horses during the summer.

These heirlooms are part of Jolley’s inspiration. “I always looked at how old things were

Jolley has a line of wallets and bags, and will also make custom purses and backpacks. Photo by Marcy Stamper

made and tried to reverseengineer them,” he said.

working with a leathersmith on reproduction military saddles.

He also apprenticed with leather artisans in Texas, learning to make belts and wallets and do stamping and carving.

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own take on traditional leather items, like belts, wallets and coin purses and bags. He also makes gun holsters and slings.

But he is also branching out, putting leather to use for other everyday rituals. Inspired in part by his stint as a barista while in fashion school, Jolley has been working on a line of leather sleeves for coffee cups.

The sleeves, which come plain or with stamped patterns, are a sturdy replacement for disposable cardboard sleeves.

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or frosty pint glasses for beer, he said.

Jolley is also devising a snapon leather sleeve that enables him to use canning jars with screw-on lids for hot drinks. “I can hold the jar under one arm, a pastry in my other hand, and still get the door,” he said.

“Inspiration is more important than the skill set. If you don’t have anything to say, and don’t have a deeper well of inspiration and drive, you don’t experience the freedom of figuring out where you want to go,” said Jolley.

Jolley grew up in western Washington and spent many childhood vacations in Winthrop, so the Methow Valley was a natural choice for setting up his leather studio. “I chose to live in a beautiful place tucked away in the mountains,” he said. “I wanted an environment more conducive to creativity.

Biking, being in the mountains, and horseback riding are all a big part of my heritage and inspiration.”

Jolley makes a line of bags, belts and wallets, but will also do custom projects, such as moccasins or specialized backpacks. He can also personalize belts and wallets with initials or stamped designs or make dog collars with names and phone numbers.

Jolley works mainly in cowhide, which he selects for

its strength and long-lasting beauty. Deer and elk hides are better suited to draped garments, but too supple for belts and wallets, he said.

Jolley seeks out upholsterygrade hides for bags and backpacks. He recently picked up a satiny gray leather from the Boeing upholstery shop that he’s using for wallets.

Jolley also likes hides from Scotland, which are free of scarring from barbed wire because the animals there are kept in stone-fenced pastures.

Jolley occasionally takes on restoration projects. He pointed to a pair of rodeo chaps that are almost 100 years old that he has been cleaning and oiling to restore pliability. He looks forward to restoring a buffalohide briefcase (with a full-quill ostrich interior) that he unearthed in his grandfather’s basement.

Teaming up

Although leather craft was once taught in home-ec in high school, Jolley worries that it is becoming a dying art. Packers learned to work leather but, along with boot and saddle makers, most of these people are in an older generation, he said.

Jolley is doing his part to counteract that. This year, he mentored a high school student, who is now his first employee. “I feel almost like I’m preserving

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the cowboy and horse culture.

We need remembrance,” to have objects like saddles that can be passed down through the generations, he said.

“Ultimately, I’d like to do teaching,” said Jolley. “My hands hurt too much to do handstamping for the rest of my life.”

Since setting up his business in the Methow, Jolley has teamed up with eqpd on the TwispWorks campus, making leather straps for their tote bags.

Jolley and eqpd’s designers worked together to refine the straps. “We both liked that — inventing processes. I love figuring out how to build things,” said Jolley.

In addition to his Twisp studio, Jolley sells at the Twisp and Winthrop farmers markets and makes the rounds of regional art fairs and holiday bazaars.

Local business tends toward the practical — belts and wallets — but urban markets attract customers for leather attaché cases and backpacks, he said.

“This area is so cool, because there are so many people following their own path, what they feel is their thing. I’ve been in a lot of places, and bounced around enough, to see that this place is pretty unique,” said Jolley.

JR Brand Leather is in the alley off of Third Avenue in Twisp, between Highway 20 and Glover Street. Jolley is also online at www.jr-brand.com. q

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Find it at the farmers markets Farmers markets offer local produce, art and handicraft items at several locations in and around the Methow Valley. Here’s how to find them: Methow Valley Farmers Market Saturday, 9 a.m. – noon Methow Valley Community Center, Highway 20, Twisp April – October Winthrop Market Sunday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Mack Lloyd Park, Highway 20, Winthrop Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend The Methow Vallley Farmers Market is a popular gathering spot on Saturday mornings. Photo by Don Nelson

Brewster Farmers Market Saturday, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

June – October 98 Oak St. (Wells Park) Okanogan Valley Farmers Market Saturday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

American Legion Park, Second and Harley streets, Okanogan May – October Okanogan Valley Farmers Market Tuesday, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Civic League Park, Central and Ash streets, Omak June – October Retail outlets that carry local or regional produce include the Mazama Store, Glover Street Market, Hank’s Harvest Foods, Evergreen IGA, Lone Pine Espresso, YardFood and the Carlton General Store. q

Antiques and collectibles.

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Blue Star blends are roasted in small batches. Photo courtesy of Blue Star Coffee Roasters

How does a small business survive in the valley? It’ s ‘intentional’ Blue Star Coffee Roasters backs up its quality products with focused planning and execution

By Don Nelson

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lue Star Coffee Roasters makes a specialty product for a distinct market, but its formula for success is an applicable lesson for any small company that’s trying to get established in a rural market like the Methow Valley.

The Twisp-based coffee

retailer and wholesaler operates out of a roasting plant/coffee shop from which it distributes carefully crafted, small-batch artisan coffee blends. Owners Dan and Meg Donohue had extensive experience in the coffee business when they launched Blue Star in 2007.

“People thought we were nuts” to choose the Methow

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Valley as a business location, Meg Donohue said in a recent interview. But the Donohues had scouted out many locations and settled on the Methow because they recognized and valued its strong sense of community.

Many other business owners in the valley would echo those sentiments.

“We knew if we did our part

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we’d be accepted,” Meg said.

“This is where we wanted to be.”

“This community has a commitment to quality, beauty and thriving civic conversation, a flourishing arts community, and a strong work ethic. People

show up for each other here,” Meg said. “As businesses we are accountable to that.”

“We can play a part in growing the local economy,” she added. “That’s important to us.”

However, location wouldn’t

mean much without a viable product, a detailed business strategy and a marketing plan — all of which have to be carefully thought out, any small business owner will tell you.

Successful entrepreneurs aren’t starry-eyed risk-takers.

“Entrepreneurs take measured, informed risks,” Dan said.

Necessary commitments

Consistent quality in every drink and every bag of beans is key to Blue Star’s success. Photo courtesy of Blue Star Coffee Roasters

Meg said that Blue Star’s mission is based on two bedrock premises: a commitment to quality and an unwavering focus on how virtually every aspect of the business is conducted.

“Quality is always first,” Meg said. “And we have to be extremely intentional about everything we do, every day. It’s pretty rigorous. That kind of discipline has been critical to

our success.”

As for an overarching strategy, Meg said, “it’s nothing mysterious … We focus on relationships and we take the long view.”

The emphasis on relationships starts at the roasting plant. “We treat everyone well, starting with our employees,” Meg said.

That extends to the Methow community, which Meg describes as “the heart and soul” of Blue Star’s success.

Locally owned businesses in the Methow Valley all face the same challenge: surviving in a sparsely populated area with logistical challenges such as transportation (which may include raw materials coming in and products going out).

“Density is the biggest issue most businesses have,” Meg said.

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Staying focused

Making broader brand awareness work goes back to consistent quality.

“We want our brand to be synonymous with quality,” Meg said, “so when people see our name they know they’ll get a good product.”

Meg said it’s not unusual for potential wholesale customers to drop into the Twisp shop unannounced to sample the coffee. When Blue Star gets a new customer, it offers to train the customer’s staff for free. For instance, if you get a

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latte at Lone Pine Espresso on Highway 97, the barista has been trained by Blue Star.

Blue Star also keeps its product line manageable by roasting a handful of blends that have been carefully sourced from growers around the world — some of them with very small operations. “We’re committed to keeping coffee growers on their land,” Meg said.

Once the beans arrive, it’s important to maintain an efficient roasting process to keep prices affordable, she said.

“We’re both production nerds,” Meg said of Dan and herself.

Is Blue Star a “mature” business? “That depends on how you define it,” Meg said.

“We’re mature businesspeople who are always innovating and evaluating what we do,” she said. “We’re still dynamic and growing … We do think about how we can keep doing this.”

Managed growth doesn’t mean losing sight of the basics.

“We focus on keeping our promises,” Meg said. “It’s beyond transactional.

It’s relational.”

Meg’s advice for small companies that want to survive and thrive: “Invest in your employees, your customers, your community.” q

All Blue Star baristas are trained in the art of making a perfect cup of coffee. Photo courtesy of Blue Star Coffee Roasters

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has extended its reach beyond the valley to build and maintain sales. “We knew we’d have to export,” Meg said.

“You have to acknowledge the power of limits [in a market],” Meg said. “You have to face it with your eyes wide open and put it in your business model.

You can control your story.”

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Taking root Methow Natives

Nursery raises plants naturally found in

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olding a healthy young Douglas hawthorn plant in a plastic gallon container, Rob Crandall said the plant mostly likely grew from seeds he collected from bear scat in mountains near the Methow Valley.

Douglas hawthorn thrives in riparian areas and produces dark red berries that are excellent food for bears and other wildlife. Dozens of hawthorn plants ready for transplanting are among thousands of native plants, at various stages of growth, at Crandall’s Methow Natives Nursery.

Most of Crandall’s plants, like the Douglas hawthorn, come from seeds he personally collected and propagated over the years.

Crandall moved to the Methow Valley 25 years ago to work for the U.S. Forest Service, doing plant survey work and learning about native flora.

A biology major in college, “I did the Methow thing of growing gardens and putting up food,” Crandall said. He also cultivated his personal interest in native plants, developing a “self-taught” expertise.

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tolerant landscaping, Crandall began collecting native seeds and growing them.

“I saw some opportunities, and a niche I could fill,” he said.

In 1999, Crandall and his wife, Heidi Steckler, opened Methow Natives Nursery, which specializes in propagating and selling plants native to the Methow Valley and the region.

They created the nursery to serve a retail market, providing landscape consulting and plants for natural landscaping to homeowners and businesses in the Methow Valley.

He soon discovered another, and very rapidly emerging,

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Crandall

market — habitat restoration for salmon recovery projects undertaken on streams, rivers and riparian areas in the Methow Valley.

Thriving plants

Located on Aspen Lane, a few miles south of Winthrop, the nursery has more than 150 species of plants acclimated to the environment of north central Washington. A

personally

collects native plant

seeds for his nursery. Photo

by Ann McCreary

demonstration garden that was planted about 14 years ago when the nursery first opened illustrates how native plants thrive.

Seeds put in the ground then are now towering alder trees, robust bitterbrush and serviceberry bushes, and 17

Restoration projects are an important part of Crandall’s work.

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abundant grasses.

“When you can get in there with a chain saw and cut things back, you know you’ve accomplished what you wanted,” Crandall said.

He harvests seeds from plants in his nursery to propagate, but still heads into the field to collect seeds “to maintain genetic diversity.”

Methow Natives continues to serve the retail market with property surveys, restoration planning, weed control and landscape design. With the growth in salmon recovery projects over the past decade, however, consulting and restoration for those projects has become an increasingly large part of his business, Crandall said.

Crandall’s first involvement in salmon habitat restoration projects came soon after he opened his nursery.

“As salmon recovery bloomed, we followed that,” he said.

The restoration projects, aimed at improving habitat for fish in local streams and rivers, require extensive planting in riparian areas, and Crandall has worked under contract with numerous government agencies, conservation and tribal groups.

To accommodate the growing demand for riparian plants, Methow Natives now has a strong emphasis on propagating plants needed for the projects.

Crandall employs about three people to help at the nursery, and when he has big restoration jobs he will hire additional help, often

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high school students, to assist with preparation and planting.

“With kids, I want to show them that you can get a job because there is so much money flowing into the valley” for fish habitat restoration, Crandall said.

“There will be an opportunity to live in the Methow. You can go to college, get a degree in the right field, come back and live where you want to live and do good work. You’re taking care of your watershed.”

One of his most longstanding restoration projects is the Twisp River Rearing Ponds, a project of the Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation in partnership with state and federal agencies, conservation and tribal organizations.

Crandall has been involved in the Twisp Ponds for almost 15 years, restoring natural vegetation on the 25-acre site

to enhance habitat for spring Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and bull trout.

The project also taps into one of Crandall’s passions — encouraging stewardship of the Methow Valley among local residents.

Environmental education

Crandall has been a key player in a program called Watershed Watchers, which has provided environmental education at the Twisp Ponds for hundreds of school children.

Under Crandall’s direction, students get hands-on experience in ecosystem restoration, helping plant native vegetation at the ponds. “There are trees there that are now 40 or 50 feet tall that were a foot tall when the public school kids planted them,” he said.

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“I’m an educator at heart. I’m trying to get community buyin and develop a stewardship ethic,” he said.

His dedication to community education is also evident in the native garden he has created — and is still working on — at the Methow Valley Interpretive Center at TwispWorks.

Started four years ago, the garden showcases native, drought-tolerant plants, many grown from seeds that Crandall collected in the wild. It has about 160 species now, and Crandall plans to keep adding to the array.

“The ultimate goal is that it is an education opportunity to learn more about nature and the ecosystem of the Methow Valley,” he said. He’s working

with local naturalist Dana Visalli to develop interpretive materials about the garden.

“It will be an opportunity to look deeper and learn about native plant communities,” he said.

Look for periodic native plant sales at the interpretive center for an opportunity to take a growing part of the Methow home with you.

In the wake of the devastating wildfires of the past two summers, Crandall said he has been asked by many homeowners to provide advice and assistance in fireproofing their homes and properties, such as removing flammable vegetation and planting with fire-resistant landscaping.

“I can’t count how many trailer loads of bitterbrush we’ve hauled away in the past two years,” he said.

Crandall envisions a growing role for his business in “helping landowners adapt to a different climate” that will require fireresilient and drought-tolerant landscaping. q

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