Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms

October 3 & 4, 2015 • 10am - 4pm

ACRES OF FUN FOR EVERYONE!

FREE Admission and Parking!

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Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm • FREE Admission & FREE Parking! • www.farmtour.com

1215 Anderson Road Mount Vernon, WA 98274

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Welcome..................................................... 3 Advertising Director

Bow Hill Blueberries...................................... 4

Duby Petit dpetit@skagitpublishing.com

Cascadian Farm............................................ 5

Sales and Community

Double O Ranch........................................... 5

Relations Director

Eagle Haven Winery...................................... 6

Deb Davis Bundy

Gordon Skagit Farms..................................... 7

dbundy@skagitpublishing.com

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2015 Farm Map........................................... 8

editorial & Farm profiles

tricia plymale

Sponsors & Donors Thank You Page................. 9

Design & Layout

Hedlin Family Farm....................................... 10

jody hendrix

Hemlock Highlands Ranch.............................. 11

Advertising Sales

La Conner Flats............................................ 12

Beverly Cloer, Abby Jackson,

RoozenGaarde.............................................. 12

Tina Pullar, Kathy Schultz, Katie Sundermeyer, John Williams Advertising Operations

Samish River Dairy........................................ 13 Schuh Farms................................................ 14

Holly Chadwick, Jody Hendrix,

South Fork Farms.......................................... 15

Julia Matylinski, Dana Perry,

Taylor Shellfish Farms.................................... 15

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Patricia Stowell, Jessica Dobie-Wagner

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• Great selection of gardening tools, gifts, and home décor.

• FREE planting seminars ( Bulbinars )! See how our 3½ acre display garden is designed & planted each fall with over ¼ million bulbs!

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welcome FREE admission and parking! This is a once a year event opportunity where family farms across Skagit County open their barn door just for you. Come explore and learn down on the farm.

During the festival weekend you can participate in a very special time to celebrate and share in the bounty of local agriculture and connect with the farmers that provide a variety of locally grown foods and goods.

You will learn how these farms maintain their generational heritage while participating in a variety of activities including farm tours, harvest markets, educational displays, demonstrations, kid’s activities, corn and hay mazes, animal exhibits, pumpkin patches, hayrides, food, music, and lots of fun.

The festival is your chance to talk to your farmers and follow your food from the field to the table. This one of a kind event offers a hands-on experience learning what it takes to run a farm; from growing crops to feeding animals and supplying products to the public. Our farmers look forward to sharing their knowledge and products with you and your family! Use the easy-to follow farm map on page 8, relax and enjoy the scenic drive as you visit the farms of your choice.

For more information visit our website at: www.farmtour.com, check us out on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/FestivalofFamilyFarms and follow @ FarmTour on Twitter.com. Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy the abundant Skagit Valley at the peak of autumn’s harvest.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Tricia Plymale

Executive Director Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms

Support the Festival and be a VIP! Donate $25.00 or more to the Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms, and experience the weekend as a VIP! As a thank you gift, donors will receive a VIP wristband. The wristband gives you access to exclusive VIP activities, coupons or goodies during the weekend tour. VIPs will receive an official Festival reusable shopping tote filled with Skagit goodies, including discount coupons, samples, and a variety of local items. The VIP bags are available at Burlington Outlet Shoppes at The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.

All donations from our VIP event benefit the Festival of Family Farms in our mission to promote Skagit County Agriculture by cultivating the bond between farmers and the community through education and hospitality.

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FArm profiles BOW HILL BLUEBERRIES 15628 Bow Hill Rd., Bow, WA 98232 Miles off of I-5: 7 or 3 depending if you’re coming from the South or North Phone: (360) 399-1006 Owners: Harley & Susan Soltes Website: www.bowhillblueberries.com

VIP: $5 you-pick gift certificate Farm type: Organic Heirloom Blueberries & Blueberry Products Farm Store, U-pick and We-pick.

Directions: From I-5 North Take exit 231 (Bow-Edison, Chuckanut Drive/Hwy 11). Cross over the freeway heading north on Hwy 11.

Go approx 6.5 miles and turn right on Bow Hill Road. We are .8 mile on the right side. Look for the big RED BARN and farm store.

From I-5 South - Take exit 236 (Bow Hill Road). Turn right and head west down Bow Hill Road for 2.9 miles. You will see blueberry fields on both sides of the road.

Keep going about 200 yards and you’ll see a big RED BARN and farm store on your left.

Farm premises: Bow Hill is the oldest blueberry farm in Skagit Valley. The 70 year old heirloom fields are open you-pick July-Sept. Depending on the season, there may be some berries left for gleaning during the festival. The farm store carries organic, fresh, hand-picked blueberries during the harvest and frozen blueberries, jam, sauces, dried blueberries and pickled blueberries that are all crafted on the farm all year round. Blueberry Ice cream made by Lopez Island Cream4

ery, Blueberry Bon Bons by Evolve Chocolates in Bellingham and various gift items are also available. We offer tours, harvest dinners and our retired “Mink House” is available for gatherings. Bow Hill Blueberries is also one of the aggregation sites for the Puget Sound Food Hub. ~FREE~Festival activities: • Meet the Farmer Session • Educational Displays • Farm tours • Puget Sound Food Hub tour • Kids activities • Juggling Farmers • Blueberry products being made on-site • Tasting of Bow Hill’s organic products • Music by Hot Damn Scandal Saturday 1-6, Sunday 1-4pm Learn while touring these premises: • What it took to transition the

historic farm to certified organic

the farm from a traveling salesman from Michigan. The Anderson family had tried raising mink, growing and drying golden seal and farming strawberries before settling on blueberries. In 2011 Harley and Susan Soltes purchased the farm from the Andersons and immediately began transitioning the historic fields to certified organic. To this day they hear stories from elderly locals who fondly remember picking in the fields. For many, picking blueberries was their first job. The Soltes’s goal is to continue the Bow blueberry legacy by continuing to create harvest memories and deep connections to farm-fresh food.

AgFARMation: Bow Hill is a sixacre farm with 4,500 blueberry bushes that are a combination of • How Bow Hill Blueberries create the Blue Crop, Jersey, Rubel and Stanley varieties. Each year between their organic products.

• What the difference is between July and September they harvest between 50,000-60,000 pounds of heirloom and modern blueberry certified organic blueberries. varieties.

The blueberries and blueberry • What organic farmers need to products are sold direct off the juggle to be successful farm, online and at the Bellingham Food ($): Kurly’s organic, gluten- and Pike Place Farmer’s Markets. free funnel cake cart will be offering They can also be found in the from 10-6. cafeterias of Amazon, Microsoft; the smoothie bar of the Seattle Free Samples: Seahawks; and at regional Co-ops, • Jam Haggen Foods, PCC, Whole Foods, Metropolitan Market, Marx Foods, • Sauce Cone & Steiner, and Slough Foods.

• Pickled Blueberries • What it takes to farm organically

• Dried Blueberries • Raw Blueberry Juice Retail ($): $4 - $15 items Farm history: In 1947 Svern and Ann Anderson bought the blueberry bushes that still exist on

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Farm profiles CASCADIAN FARM 55931 State Route 20, Rockport Miles off of I-5: 40 Phone: 360-853-8173 Managers: Jim Meyer Website: www.cfarm.com VIP: FREE pumpkin of your choice

Farm type: Organic berry farm, pumpkin patch and roadside stand Directions: From I-5, exit 230, go 40 miles east on Hwy. 20.

Just past milepost 100 (3 mi. east of Rockport) watch for Cascadian Farm’s Roadside Stand on your left.

Farm premises: 27 acre organic farm in North Cascades foothills, roadside stand with organic berries, homemade ice cream, more. ~FREE~Festival activities: • Hayride tour • Pumpkin decorating • Self-guided walking tours • Blueberry pruning and educational talks ~PAY~Festival activities: • Scarecrow making • U-pick pumpkin patch Learn while touring these premises: Organic farming in general and organic blueberry production specifics.

Food ($): Organic homemade ice cream, espresso, hot cider, soup, sandwiches and more.

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Retail ($): Organic pumpkins, jams, frozen berries and more.

Farm History: The farm has used organic methods since its founding in 1972. Much of the forest and riverbank around the farm is in the Upper Skagit Bald Eagle Natural Area, home to hundreds of eagles in winter. In 2006 managers Jim and Harlyn Meyer won the Washington Tilth ‘Farmer of the Year’ award.

AgFARMation: Cascadian Farms’ main crop is blueberries. The berry’s superior nutritional value and taste is enjoyed fresh in summer and frozen all year. In autumn, the bush’s leaves are one of the few in the Northwest to turn bright red.

DOUBLE O RANCH/ OVENELL’S HERITAGE INN & LOG CABINS 46276 Concrete Sauk Valley Rd. Concrete Miles off of I-5: 30 Phone: 360-853-8494 Owners: The Ovenell Family Website: www.ovenells-inn.com www.doubleoranchllc.com

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VIP: 10% off all USDA beef and store purchases Farm type: Cattle ranch, meat sales.

Directions: From I-5 exit 232 (Cook Road) to Sedro-Woolley. Go East on Highway 20 to Concrete.

Turn right on Concrete Sauk Valley Rd. Cross the bridge and continue left for 2 miles. Ovenell’s Heritage Inn and Double O Ranch are on

24-28hp

Contact us for details!

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cattle health care and ultrasound.

• Interact with Conservation District’s Blossom the pink squirrel.

• Pet Skye & Champ the Clydesdales.

• Visit the ducks, chickens and geese.

• Self-Guided educational scavenger hunt for the whole family. your right.

Farm premises: 580 acre cattle ranch, wildlife preserve.

Ovenell’s Heritage Inn: AAA Rated Accommodations available: Pine log cabins, guesthouses. ~FREE~Festival activities: • Hands on educational displays featuring year-round ranch activities, calving and health care.

• Hayride farm tour through pastures, cattle, CREP project and timberlands; see deer, elk and woodland birds.

• Footprints of our farm matching game, matching games of our wildlife, cattle, horses and chickens.

• See herd bulls and weaned calves up close, pet and feed show calves.

Learn while touring these premises: Conservation project along the river, calving, animal health, pasture & timber management, wildlife on the ranch and quality grades of meat. Learn how our beef production and conservation projects affect lives around us.

Food ($): Smoked Double O Ranch beef brisket sandwich or meal including coleslaw, beans and corn. Hamburgers and hotdogs for the kids. Beverages for sale.

Retail ($): Beef orders, USDA inspected beef by the package, jam, harvest bread, honey.

Free Samples: Homemade sweet breads, jams, honey and cof • “Carving a ranch from the wilds” fee. farm history and antique equipment Farm History: The original display.

713 acres were purchased by James • On the hour demonstration of • Equipment display.

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T. Ovenell and Harold Pierson in the 1940s and named the P&O Hereford Ranch. By 1960 James T. and Mary Ovenell were sole owners and the name changed to Double O Ranch. Crops included green peas, flax, sweet corn, corn silage, wheat, barley, timber and pasture. In 1997 a B&B and log cabins were added.

Today the farm is fourth generation.

AgFARMation: Maine-Anjou cattle originated in France. They were imported to Canada in 1968 and the US in 1969. The Ovenells began breeding them in 1969. The typical color is red and white spotted.

EAGLE HAVEN WINERY/ PERKINS VARIETY APPLES 8243 Sims Rd. Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284 Miles off of I-5 – 8 Phone: (360) 856-6986 Winery Phone: (360) 856-6248 Owners: Jim, Tom & Sue Perkins Website: EagleHavenWinery.com

VIP: Choice of caramel apple, Eagle Haven wine glass or 3lb bag of apples Farm type: Apple orchard, winery and vineyard.

Directions: On I-5 take exit #232 , go east on Cook Rd. approx 5 miles to HWY 20 intersection turn left on HWY 20 approx. 5 miles to Sims Rd., turn right on Sims Rd., farm is on the left.

Farm Premises: 40 acre orchard with 40 varieties of apples along with 5 acres of lush vineyards

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and view of the North Cascades all around. The winery features an old world tasting room and scenic wine garden with seating and picnic tables. Outdoor pavilion amphitheater for concerts, wedding and events. ~FREE~Festival Activities: • Hayride • Meet the Farmer sessions • Guided tour with information on vineyard care and apple trees in the northwest Free Samples: Apples, Pears, and Wine Learn while touring these premises: The care and techniques of apple production, as well as wine making from vine to bottle and vineyard tours Retail ($): Many varieties of apples, pears, honey, jelly and jams.

Seven varieties of grape wines four of fruit wines and winery merchandise.

Food ($): Caramel apples, hot chocolate, baked goods Farm History: The Perkin’s family planted the first orchard in 1972. Then following their interest they planted the vineyard in 2000 and opened the doors to their one goskagit.com

Farm profiles of a kind Winery, tasting room and their award winning wines.

~FREE~Festival Activities: • Corn maze

AgFARMation: When you plant • Haunted room an apple seed it will never grow the • Autumn scenery paintings same kind of apple it came from.

Apples from seeds are called chance • Demonstrations of practical and ornamental steel forging techniques seedlings. To replicate a variety of apple you must use a graft or a bud by Adair Orr. to get the same apple.

• Local seasonal floral wreaths and seasonal display education by Gordon Skagit Farms.

GORDON SKAGIT FARMS 15598 McLean Rd., Mount Vernon Miles off of I-5: 4 Phone: Retail: 360-424-7262 Owners: Todd and Eddie Gordon Website: www.gordonskagitfarms.com VIP: Each VIP will have the choice of one item: a small pumpkin, gourd or apple from the bin at the Welcome booth

Farm type: Wholesale growers/ sellers: pumpkins, Jonagold apples; spinach seed, grass seed, cabbage seed, turnip seed, wheat/barley and squash. Resale growers: Pumpkins, squash, apples, gourds, ornamental corn.

Directions: From I-5 take Kincaid Exit. West on Kincaid, right onto S. 3rd St., stay in center lane.

Straight through light at 1st St., over Skagit River Bridge. Left at first stop light onto Wall St. - curves right, becomes McLean Rd. Drive 3 miles, farm is on left.

Farm premises: Gordon Skagit farm stand, fields, view of Mt. Baker. ~Pay~ Festival Activities: • U-pick pumpkins, apples goskagit.com

• Honey Bee education booth by Bruce Bowen Bee’s, Sunday only.

• Pumpkin Contests Saturday, October 4. Drop off pumpkins 9am - noon, weigh-in at noon. *Prizes for biggest and smallest pumpkins*.

• ” Squash 101/ Apples 101 “: the nutritional value of squash, pumpkins and apples, basic ---cooking information, quick and healthy recipes.

• Breadfarm ( Edison, Wa. ) is a hand-formed, artisan bakery focused on naturally leavened -loaves and rustic baked goods. A bakery where local and regional produce becomes the star ingredient.

• KLT Works: Being from the Skagit Valley, Kristin Loffer Theiss will be giving talks about being an artists in the Valley and incorporating imagery found in the valley’s landscape to create locally produced modernist tees, plush, and prints for the whole family.

Georgia Johnson, director. ~ Bread Farm will have food for sale~

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Free Samples: Apples

Come visit our beautiful Home Farm bordering the North Cascades National Park in the Upper Skagit Valley! Enjoy our spacious picnic area, self-guided farm tour, organic berries & more!

harvest CALENDAR

MAY flowers JUNE strawberries JULY raspberries AUG blueberries SEPT sweet corn OCT pumpkins

• organic berries • homemade ice cream • espresso & wholesome snacks

Learn while touring these premises: History of pumpkins/ Halloween.

Food ($): Hot apple cider and baked goods, provided by the LaConner Culinary Arts program,

GORDON SKAGIT FARMS

OPEN DAILY MA MAY- OCTOBER

HWY 20, 3 MILES EAST OF ROCKPORT, WASHINGTON (360) 853-8173

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G. GORDON SKAGIT FARMS 15598 McLean Road, Mount Vernon PUMPKINS & GOURDS, APPLES & ORNAMENTAL CORN H. SCHUH FARMS 15565 State Route 536, Mount Vernon BERRIES, VEGETABLES, PUMPKIINS & SQUASH I. ROOZENGAARDE 15867 Beaver Marsh Road, Mount Vernon FLOWER & BULB GROWER Lake

Cavanaugh J. SOUTH FORK FARMS 19115 Dike Road, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 530 ALPACA BREEDING, SALES, AGISTMENT (BOARDING) SERVICES, YARN AND FIBER PRODUCTS.

K. CASCADIAN FARM 55931 State Route 20, Rockport ORGANIC BERRY FARM & PUMPKIN PATCH L. HEMLOCK HIGHLANDS RANCH 8110 Sims Road, Sedro-Woolley HIGHLAND CATTLE BEEF & BREEDING M. EAGLE HAVEN WINERY/PERKINS VARIETY APPLES 8243 Sims Rd Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 APPLE ORCHARD, WINERY & VINEYARD.

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Special thanks to supporters of the 2015 Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms!

Major sponsors:

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Circle of Friends Donors: Platinum Plus Tractor Sponsor $20,000 Skagit County Lodging Tax Fund $1,000 Grandy Lake Forest Associates WA State Potato Comm. $500 Skagit Bank $300 Northwest Farm Credit Services Sunland Bark & Topsoil

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Gold Tractor Sponsor $2,500 Port of Skagit County

$250 BrownLine LLC Dahl Electric, Inc. Skagit Valley Food CoOp Saltchuck Resources Linda Becker Blade Chevrolet $200 Delaval Direct

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$150 D&D Seed Co. Inc. Norm Nelson, Inc. Ron & Jan Wesen

Silver Tractor Sponsor $1,250 Arbor-Pacific Forestry Services

$100 Goods and Services Brown McMillen Real Skagit Publishing Estate LLC Baker Septic Chrishaven Trees Blue Finch PR Conway Pub & Eatery Courier Printing Excel Dairy Service Inc Courier-Times Hexcel Corporation MeTv KVOS Osborne Seed Co. Western Washington Reisner Distributor, Inc. Agricultural Association Sakuma Bros Farm WSU Skagit County Extension Vikima USA, Inc Skagit River Steel Seven Sisters Stowes Shoes and Clothing Wilbur Ellis

Board of Directors President: Jennifer Schuh; Vice President: Tami Sakuma; Treasurer: Jean Bates; Secretary: Jen Hart; Board Members: Konnie McCutchin, Kristen Hinton, Cindy Kleinhuisen, Don Mcmoran; Executive Director: Tricia Plymale

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Farm profiles GORDON SKAGIT FARMS

cont. from pg 7 Retail ($): Heirloom pumpkins, gourds, ornamental corn, apples.

U-pick apples and pumpkins, local honey, dried flowers and fall flowers Farm history: Gordon Skagit Farms was founded in 1936 by Ed and Amelia Gordon; son, Ed and wife, Betty, took over operations in 1955. In 1969 Todd and Eddie began growing pumpkins - in the 1980s they started running the farm. Now they grow 60+ acres of pumpkins with wholesale customers from Alaska to Seattle, and retail customers worldwide.

AgFARMation: One cup of fresh cubed pumpkin has 30 calories.

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Giving a grade A when it comes to calorie counting.

Directions: From the North on I-5: Exit 230, west on Hwy. 20. Left on La Conner-Whitney Rd., travel 4 mi. Farm is at east entrance to La Conner.

From the South on I-5: Exit 221 (Conway), follow signs to La Conner, about 8 mi. Farm is at east entrance to La Conner.

HEDLIN FAMILY FARM 12052 Chillberg Rd., La Conner Miles off of I-5: 10 Phone: 360-466 3977 Owners: David Hedlin and Serena Campbell Website: www.hedlinfarms.com VIP: A vegetable sample with Hedlin’s farm fresh vegetables

Farm type: 400 acres farmed under conventional management and certified organic production including: Fresh Market: Heirloom tomatoes, mixed fresh fruit and

Farm premises: 70 acre market garden, farm stand, organic fields and farmstead featuring original vegetables, fresh herbs, and flowers 1913 home built by Rasmus and are produced for sale through their Pothea Koudal, barns and greenhouses including original 1946 farm stand, farmers markets, CSA subscription and to local restaurants. greenhouse built by Elizabeth Hedlin.

Commercial crops: Wheat, peas, beet, spinach, and cabbage seed. ~FREE~Festival activities: Organic: Wheat, barley, green chop • Pony rides and field corn.

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Farm profiles • Vegetable art, Veggie Racing • Hay rides • Greenhouse and farm tours • Live Music • Meet Farmer Dave Free Samples: Farm fresh pickles and sauerkraut Learn while touring these premises: Tour farm and greenhouses, learn about tomato, pepper and basil production, conservation practices and wildlife habitat protection.

Food ($): Fresh picked organic corn-on-the-cob, bratwurst with local sauerkraut, and Italian sausage with our own farm fresh peppers and onions, hot spiced cider, cocoa.

• Scavenger Hunt

HEMLOCK HIGHLANDS RANCH 8110 Sims Rd., Sedro-Woolley Miles off of I-5: 8 Phone: 360-856-5817 Owners: John and Jean Bates Website: www.hemlockhighlands.net VIP: $10.00 off coupon on Highland beef order and a VIP raffle

Farm type: Highland cattle beef/breeding farm Directions: From I-5, exit 232 (Cook Rd./Sedro-Woolley). Go east on Cook Rd. approximately 4 miles.

Turn left onto Hwy. 20 and proceed approximately 4 miles to Sims Rd., which Y’s to the right. Hemlock Highlands is the first building on right.

Food ($): Hot chocolate, hot apple cider, fresh baked goods.

Lunch, available Saturday and Sunday ($).

Free samples: Highland beef (Saturday & Sunday 1:00pm.3:00pm.).

Learn while touring these premises: What it entails to run a Highland cattle ranch. Facts about Highlands and their history as well as how a cattle farm operates.

Highlands’ family farm has been raising registered Scottish Highland cattle for beef and breeding stock since the early 90s, with many grand and reserve champions in our line. Our family has loved and understood the value of Scottish Highland cattle for five generations.

Farm History: Nestled in the foothills of the North Cascades in beautiful Skagit Valley, Hemlock

AgFARMation: Highland cattle were transported to the Dakota’s in America in the 1940s to replace less

Retail ($): Highland beef, Highland arts and crafts.

Retail ($): Corn, heirloom tomatoes, basil, sweet and hot peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, beets, chard, lettuce, spinach, green beans, Farm premises: 45-acre beef onions, shallots, pumpkins, squash, cattle operation, views of Skagit Valflowers, pickles, bread, eggs, milk ley and North Cascade Mountains. and cheese.

Farm history: Founded in the early 1900s by grandparents Rasmus and Pothea Koudal, Hedlin Family Farms is currently in its third generation.

AgFARMation: If you eat sauerkraut in Germany, coleslaw in New York, or kimchee in Korea there is a good chance that the seed that produced that crop was grown in the Skagit Valley.

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~FREE~Festival activities: • Guided hayride • Petting pen with baby Highland calves • Scottish Fiddler Valorie Newson performs Saturday (noon-3pm.)

• Bagpipers perform on Sunday (noon-3pm.)

• Self-guided educational walk • Educational displays and talks on the care of cattle

STORE WIDE SALE! OCTOBER 3rd & 4th

Everything on Sale except people food & Scratch-and-Peck grains 6200 N. Green Rd. Burlington, WA

• Kids coloring contests

Mon-Sat: 8:30am-6pm Sunday: Noon-5pm

• Face painting

Check our prices first, we’re cheaper than you think.

• Kid’s Highland art activities

EASY PARKING & GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE!

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Farm profiles hardy cattle that couldn’t handle the farmstand, pasture for livestock and features plants for Northwest Washharsh winters of the Dakota’s. ington and vegetable trials, flowers, roses and cultural methods for success in Skagit Valley.

LA CONNER FLATS 15978 Best Rd., Mount Vernon Miles off of I-5: 9 Phone: 360-466-3190 Owners: Hart Family Website: www.laconnerflats.com VIP: 10% Off at Farmstand

Farm type: A diversified family farm of 230 acres specializing in fresh produce and nursery stock.

Potatoes, berries, seed crops, cereals, herbs and cut flowers are also grown. The 11-acre display garden, a popular rental for summer weddings, includes our fresh market

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Directions: Heading North on I-5: Take exit 221 at Conway, cross over freeway, turn right onto Fir Island Rd., which becomes Best Rd..

Travel 9.5 miles from I-5. We are on the left.

Heading South on I-5: Take exit 230 at Burlington, Head west on Highway 20 for 6 miles, Turn Left on Best Rd., travel 2 miles, we are on the right.

Farm premises: A Centennial farm, now with its 5th and 6th generations. The family home was built in 1914; the granary was built at the same time, it now houses a kitchen and food service amenities for weddings, parties and meetings.

The retail produce shed is immediately accessible from the parking lot. We sell our own produce and fresh eggs. ~FREE~Festival activities: • Guided walking tours of farm and gardens • Self guided tours of display gardens Highest Quality • Local Shrimp

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• Cider making and samples • Children’s Make-a-Garden • Animal petting area • Lots of covered areas, in case of rain Free Samples: Cider

RoozenGaarde 15867 Beaver Marsh Rd., Mount Vernon Miles Off of I-5: 3.5 Phone: 800-732-3266 Owners: The Roozen Family

Learn while touring these VIP: We will have a premises: Learn about varieties unique 5 pack of tulip bulbs available for all of vegetables, and cultural methods of our Festival of Family that work here. See many landscapFarm VIP’s. ing ideas and plants. Learn culinary herbs that grow well and how to use Farm Type: Flower and bulb them. Talk with the owners about grower farming in the Skagit Valley and its Directions: From I-5 take Kinfuture. caid St. Exit (#226) and head west.

Retail ($): Seasonal produce, Take a right at first stoplight after flowers & fresh eggs all grown on the railroad tracks and stay on road the premises. passing over the Division St. Bridge.

Take a left at the first stoplight after Food ($): Baked potato bar the bridge. This road will take a Farm History: Isaac and Marright turn and become McLean Rd., garet Jennings arrived in the area which you will follow for 3 miles.

1869, purchasing this farm in 1884. Take a left on Beaver Marsh Rd. – The first crops were oats, hay and there will be a small grocery store potatoes. Over the decades the farm on your left. RoozenGaarde is about has produced horses, cattle, hogs, ¼ mile down the road to the left chickens, grain crops, peas, carrots, side of the road…. look for the gipotatoes, sweet corn, pumpkins, ant windmill! seed crops (cabbage, clover, musFarm Premises: Located in the tard and spinach), hay, nursery stock heart of Skagit Valley’s fertile farm(for landscaping), and agri-tourism. land, RoozenGaarde is a retail shop We place a high priority on crop roand 3 ½ acre display garden featurtations, sustainability, and continued ing an authentic Dutch windmill. investment so that the 6th, 7th and RoozenGaarde is open year-round 8th generations will have the same and serves as the retail division of opportunity.

Washington Bulb Co. AgFARMation: The site of the ~FREE~ Festival Activities: garden was the first site in Skagit • Bulb planting seminars (BulbiValley to produce vegetables, which nars).

George Calhoun produced and shipped to Seattle by boat.

• View bulb farming machinery from the past and present.

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Retail($): The RoozenGaarde shop offers a nice assortment of home decor and gift items plus • Watch as we design, layout, and gardening tools and accessories. plant the display garden.

Tulip festival merchandise. Fresh cut • Scavenger hunt flowers. Fall planting bulbs featuring: tulips, daffodils, irises, hyacinths • Flower bed planting design and crocuses. contest • Demonstrations on wine barrel/ container planting.

• Picnic areas

Farm History: Washington Bulb Company was founded by ~PAY~ Festival Activities: Dutch emigrants William and Helen • Plant a Pot Roozen in 1955. Established with • U Pick tulip stems – fall colored only 5 acres of land, the Roozen blooms. family now farms nearly 2,000 acres of Skagit Valley land (including Learn while touring these 1000 acres of tulips, daffodils and premises: Learn everything you irises) in addition to growing freshcould ever hope to know about cut flowers year round under 15 bulbs, how to care for them, tricks acres of greenhouse space. Roozto prevent critters from eating them, enGaarde was founded in 1985 to and much more in our bulb plantserve as the company’s retail diviing seminars (aka Bulbinars). See sion and display garden. This dishow we plant and harvest bulbs in play garden has grown in size over our fields and learn about the susthe years and we now design and tainable practices we apply. Get an plant the area with 135+ different idea of how we are able to “force” flower varieties and more than ¼ tulips in our greenhouses 365 million bulbs during the months days a year. Gather ideas from our of autumn for a spectacular spring display garden layout and planting bloom! that can then be incorporated into your own home gardens.

AgFARMation: RoozenGaarde/ Washington Bulb Company is the Free Samples: A selection of largest grower of tulip, daffodil and refreshments. iris bulbs in North America. goskagit.com

15098 Field Rd., Bow Miles off of I-5: 5.5 Creamery Phone: 360-766-6455 Owners: Steve Hilborn (Dairy) and Norma Hill (Creamery)/Managed and Operated by the Jensen family- Vic & Judy Jensen Website: www.goldenglencreamery.com VIP: 15% off total purchase

Farm type: Dairy with Creamery.

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Directions: From I-5 take exit #231 (Chuckanut Dr.), north on Chuckanut Dr. 4 mi., cross Samish River. Turn left on Field Rd., 1¼ miles, dairy on left.

Farm premises: 450-cow (Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey) dairy farm with view of Mount Baker, Anacortes and Lummi Island. Farm-

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Farm profiles stead cheese, butter and retail store. ~FREE~ Festival activities: • Tractor rides and tours of the property • Farm petting zoo • Artificial cow milking “Squirty Gertie” • Meet the farmer and cheesemakers (at “learning stations” around the farm) • Antique tractors and farm equipment • Face painting •”Dairied Treasure” Hunt • Meet the Dairy Ambassador (County & State on different days) Free samples: Cheese Learn while touring these premises: Farm/creamery tours, “The Search for Dairied Treasure” Retail ($): Cheddars, Goudas, Mozzarella, Feta and cheese curds (a.k.a. “Squeaky Cheese”); specialty cheeses, butter and cultured dairy products.

Farm history: Vic Jensen & Sons Dairy began in 1967, moved to present location in 1978. Vic and Judy Jensen have farmed all their married life. Vic started as a milker on the farm. Son, Doug, now operates the farm, along with a custom heifer-raising business on the premises. Golden Glen Creamery started in 2004 by making artisan and farmstead cheese, and is currently operated by the family. In 2006 the Creamery began making butter. In 2011, the farm and creamery were sold to new owners who retained the Jensen family as managers. With 14

the new partnerships, the farm and creamery have been growing and prospering.

AgFARMation: When Golden Glen Creamery started in 2004, the Cheese makers in Washington State were few and far between-maybe as many as a dozen or so. In 2011, there were at least 43 licensed Cheese makers in the state. In 1967 when Jensen’s started the dairy, there were over 1,400 dairies in operation in Washington State, while today there are fewer than 460.

SCHUH FARMS 15565 State Rte. 536, Mount Vernon Miles off of I-5: 5 Phone: 360-424-6982 Owners: Steve, Susan & Jen Schuh VIP: 10% OFF shopping pass

becomes State Route 536. Drive 3 miles, farm is on right and left hand side. Ample parking on south side of State Route 536.

• Costumed Characters

The Great Pumpkin Patch:

• See summer u-pick area • Walk down the Gravenstein apple path. These mature trees are from the Cedardale Orchard.

Directions: From I-5 exit 226 (Kincaid St.) go west. Turn right onto S. 3rd St., stay in center lane.

Straight through light at 1st St., over Skagit River Bridge, road

• Pumpkin balloon playground • Face painting

The Great Pumpkin Patch: Farm premises: 300-acre farm, 5-acre homestead with 100+ year • Corn Maze old home, barn, and hen house. Our • Recycle Junktion & Mole Hill “Great Pumpkin Patch” located on Mountain the south side of State Route 536.

• The great pumpkin patch – ~FREE~Festival activities: search for the largest pumpkin 5-Acre Homestead Learn while touring these • Yellow Brick Road and playpremises: Meet Farmer Steve ground and let him educate you on farming with the Schuh’s. Find out how • FFA students in the hen house he now sells everything he grows with the chickens, three little pigs himself. Participants receive a free and calves. hot corn on the-cob! Head to the • Squash talk at 11:30, 1:30 animal areas and meet the FFA &3:30 come learn about squash. students to inform you on the local • Picnic area farm animals.

• Music Food ($): Hot roasted corn on

• Antique tractor educational hayrides with farmer Steve – participants receive free ear of corn-onthe-cob.

Farm type: Pumpkin/seasonal produce with roadside stands. Upick and we-pick.

Three Little Pigs

• Squash talk 12:30 & 2:30 come learn about squash.

• Picnic Area ~PAY~Festival activities: 5-Acre Homestead • Barrel Train ride • U-pick pumpkins • Hen house with chickens and

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the cob, chili, ice cream, espresso, hot apple cider, fresh pies.

Free Samples: Seasonal vegetables, fruit and beverages.

Retail ($): Retail barn featuring fresh produce, flowers, seasonal pies, jams, syrups, gourmet foods and local pickles. Artisan cheeses, and butter. Fresh cider. Gourds, pumpkins, cornstalks, and fall plants. Great fall and Halloween merchandise.

Farm history: In 1963 the farm grew only green peas for 3 local processors. With the exodus of processors from the Skagit Valley we have become a fresh market farm.

The Great Pumpkin Patch history was a small dairy farm homesteaded by the Hansen Family. It was held in this family for 4 generations. For the goskagit.com

Farm profiles last 15 years it has been farmed by the Schuh Family and is now owned by the Schuh’s. This is our “Great Pumpkin Patch” to grow for generations to enjoy.

• Kids play area for wee ones through older ones • Carding fiber demonstrations • Festival’s largest chalkboard • Paca poo if you bring your own bucket

AgFARMation: In 1998, Skagit Valley farms produced 15,034 acres of peas for processing; in 2001 that was reduced to 5,307 acres.

Retail ($): “All Things Alpaca” in The Bunkhouse Boutique. Yarn, roving, and raw fiber; Alpaca products; Felted items; Children and adult clothing; Cat balls; Stuffed animals; Felted soap; Hair sticks, Gloves, Scarves, and Great gifts large and small. 20% off everything in the store for Saturday and Sunday only.

SOUTH FORK FARMS 19115 Dike Road Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Miles off of I-5: 3 Owner: Gary & Ruth Wiegand Phone: 360-445-3520 V/FAX, 360-840-3666 cell Website: www.alpacasofsouthforkfarms.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ pages/South-Fork-Farms-The-Bunkhouse-Boutique VIP: Personalized walk through the alpaca pastures. VIP is welcome to invite 3 guests on tour

Farm Type: alpaca breeding, sales, agistment (boarding) services, yarn and fiber products.

Directions (off of I-5): From the South: Take Exit 221 for Conway/Hwy 534 E./Lake McMurray.

Turn left and cross over I-5 for .2 miles. Turn right into the roundabout and exit west on to Fir Island Rd. Go over the railroad tracks for .3 miles. Turn right onto Dike Rd. and drive 2 miles. The farm is on the right.

From the North: Take Exit 225 for Anderson Rd. Turn right on to Anderson Rd. and go .1 miles. Turn goskagit.com

left on to Old Hwy 99 South Rd. and go 1 mile. Turn slight right onto Conway Rd. and go 1 mile. Turn right on to Stackpole Rd. and go over the railroad track for 1 mile to Dike Rd. Turn left onto Dike Rd. and drive .2 miles. The farm is on the left.

Farm premises: We are a small alpaca farm surrounded by 70+ acres of pristine Skagit Valley cropland near Conway. Alpacas are raised for their high quality fiber which is used for spinners, weavers, and crafters alike. Farm has alpacas, chickens, and a store. Service animals only as alpacas and other animals, especially dogs, don’t mix. ~FREE~ Festival Activities: • Self guided walking tour • Education stations • Halter training demonstrations • Hands on petting • Informational signage • Spinning demonstrations

Food ($): Ice cream truck.

Farm history: A third generation family owned farm since the 1800s doing crop and cattle farming, the present generation has altered its focus to raising championship Huacayan alpacas. South Fork Farms bought its first alpacas in 2004 and quickly grew from 3 to 5 acres over a period of 4 years. The farm began breeding and agistment (boarding) services in 2006 and now has a 40+ herd. The Bunkhouse Boutique’s grand opening was February 2013. It’s a one-ofa-kind store to Skagit County. Like us on Facebook under South Fork Farms – The Bunkhouse Boutique to keep up-to-date on store specials, milestones, and events on the farm.

AgFARMation: Because we are a small hands on farm, we train most alpacas to eat out of our hands.

The farm home was built in 1905.

The original “bunk” house for the hired help was remodeled in the 1970s for a rental unit. It is now used for The Bunkhouse Boutique.

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We’ve only had to bottle feed 1 cria (baby alpaca) in all our years raising alpacas.

Eagles often roost in the black walnut trees that shade a few of the pastures.

Snow geese and swans come right up to the edge of the alpaca pastures.

We use the paca poo in our large garden for bountiful produce of which much is donated to our local homeless shelter, The Friendship House.

TAYLOR SHELLFISH FARMS 2182 Chuckanut Drive Bow, WA 98232 Miles off of I-5: Approximately 10 Phone: 360-766-6002 Owners: The Taylor family of Shelton, WA Website: www.taylorshellfishfarms.com VIP: $5.00 coupon off total purchase of oysters, clams and/or mussels

Farm type: Northwest grown fresh shellfish Directions: From I-5 take exit #231. Go northwest on Chuckanut Drive (Hwy 11) for 10 miles to the Oyster Creek Inn. From Bellingham take exit #250. Go south on Chucka-

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nut Drive 9.5 miles. The farm’s touch tank entrance is in the corner of the res • See the world’s only lighthouse taurant parking lot. Drive under the made of oyster shells sign, across the bridge and down the hill. Please use caution: one lane • Kid’s beach road and railroad crossing.

Learn while touring these premises: Information provided Farm premises: 1700 acres about shellfish farming and clean of shellfish beds in the tidelands of water awareness. Meet shellfish Samish Bay, with a retail store and farmers and see photos and edushore side picnic & BBQ area on cational displays by Taylor Shellfish scenic Chuckanut Drive.

Farms, Skagit Conservation Educa~FREE~ Festival activities: tion Alliance (SCEA), Skagit Con • Meet shellfish farmers servation District and Skagit Valley Backyard Habitat Team.

• Educational Exhibits Free samples: Steamed Manila • Oyster shucking demonstrations clams • Crab races Retail ($): Fresh Oysters (live, • Build a fairy house on the beach shucked and smoked), Manila clams, Mussels, Geoduck, Dunge • Marine Life Center aquatic ness crab (live or cooked); frozen

scallops, prawns, salmon, halibut, smoked salmon & pickled herring.

Cookbooks, t-shirts, sweatshirts and more!

in Samish Bay since 1921. Taylor Shellfish is a fifth generation family farm that began farming shellfish in southern Puget Sound in 1890.

Farm history: Farm History: Prior to this farm’s purchase in 1991 by the Taylor family, oysters and clams have been farmed here

AgFARMation: One adult Pacific Oyster can filter as much as 65 gallons of water per day.

SUPPORTING SKAGIT VALLEY AGRICULTURE SINCE 1964 The Port of Skagit has been a strong supporter of the local agriculture industry since the port was formed over 50 years ago. 

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Port grants for agricultural research have led to numerous improvements in local farming.

The port’s investments in a commercial kitchen, pickle processor, and a malting facility have widened the opportunities to develop and market locally produced value-added agriculture products.

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The port’s sponsorship of events such as the Festival of Family Farms and The Grain Gathering has helped put the Skagit Valley on the map as a center of farming innovation.

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Local ag-related companies on port property include Syngenta Seeds, Van Zyverden, Vikima, Geilow Pickles Inc., Viva Farms, Hedlin Family Farm, From the Farm Treats, Henry’s Humdingers, Skagit Valley Malting, Skagit’s Best Salsa, and WSU Bread and Food Lab.

•15400 Airport Drive • Burlington WA, 98233 • 360-757-0011• www.portofskagit.com • Questions? Contact Andrew Entrikin