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Taproot Expansion Project
More equipment, space, and services! Did you know Taproot is working on expanding its services by adding a fully equipped cook room, offering businesses and individuals access to a modular space that will include a six-burner gas range, convection oven (for baking, roasting, and more!), a large steam jacketed tilting kettle, a fire-suppression hood, a…
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Island Apples
The San Juan Islands are a living museum of historic American apple varieties by Madrona Murphy, Kwiaht Apples may well be the most long-standing crop grown in the islands, as native Pacific crabapples were harvested and tended by the Coast Salish families that were the islands’ original inhabitants. When planting orchards became a way of…
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Some Pig! A Tale of Nose-to-Tail Farming
The venerated pig is a microcosm of the cycle of food, farmers, and the future of sustainable farming in the Islands With a history that includes a war named after the porcine species, the San Juans have a love affair with pork. And who wouldn’t? Because…bacon! But just as the simple hog revealed a complex…
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A Bushel and a Peck: Growing Island Vegetables
Market gardens and farms have sustained islanders from the earliest people to Gold-Rush hopefuls, soldiers, settlers and sailors (Photo courtesy of the Town of Friday Harbor) Local restaurant menus tell just the current chapter of a long and varied story of the humble vegetable in the San Juan islands. Today, the carrots, kale and peas…
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The Wild & Woolly History of Sheep in the San Juan Islands
From barging rams to the outer islands to running sheep through the streets of Lopez Village, the history of wool in the San Juans is a warp and weft of ingenuity and tall tales NAMING ISLANDS, RUNNING SHEEP Raised for breeding, meat, and wool, sheep have always been a major part of agriculture in San…
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Behind Every Meal is a Story
Discover Heritage Tastes of the San Juans Eat Island Grown! By Caitlin Leck The unique “terroir” and “merroir” of the San Juan Islands and the Salish Sea create conditions that have offered a fragile but bountiful harvest to islanders and beyond for generations, from from camas root to cockles, from salal berries to salmon.…
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Dirt Rich Movie – Sept. 20th at Brickworks
Free Admission (donations accepted to help support the San Juan Island Farm Tours) Brickworks, 150 Nichols Street, Friday Harbor 6:00 pm – Social 6:30 pm – Movie Post-movie – talk with the director Director: Marcelina Cravat Producer: Eric Katsuleres Description: Through a beautiful exploration of geo-therapy strategies that can literally reverse the effects of runaway global…
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2019 Farm Tours
San Juan Island: September 20-22 Orcas Island: September 28 & 29 Lopez Island: October 5 & 6 https://islandgrownsj.com/?page_id=2831
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Ag Summit Hoedown and BBQ – Feb 2nd
Everyone is invited to the Ag Summit Hoedown at Brickworks Feb. 2nd, 6-9pm. Music by River Rye: $5 cover, 17 and under free. BBQ dinner with all the trimmings by San Juan Bistro (Formerly SJI Cheese.) Dinner $15, discount prices for kids.
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Climate Change Chat with Dr. Heidi Roop – Feb. 2nd
Join Dr. Heidi Roop for an informal discussion on climate change in the Puget Sound. Dr. Roop is a climate scientist with a passion for science, communication, and community co-production of knowledge. Dress warm, the event is outside around the fire. Feb. 2nd at 5pm Brickworks, 150 Nichols Street, Friday Harbor FREE
