Farm tours are back this fall on all three islands! Visit island farms, meet your farmers, and savor the harvest season. Maps and itineraries coming soon, so for now… Save the Dates! San Juan Island: September 22-26, 2021 Orcas Island: October 1-3, 2021 Lopez Island: October 15-17, 2021
Meet Shaun and Amy, of Madrone Cellars on San Juan Island! You can find their delicious wines and ciders – featuring island fruit – at their Friday Harbor tasting room on First Street. When they met in 2014, Shaun was about to move to Lake Chelan and Amy was returning to school in Bellingham. They…
The Lum Farm on Orcas Island is a family operation! Owners Eric and Amy and their daughters Martha (19) and Rachel (17) are involved in all aspects of running the farm. They primarily raise livestock for meat, dairy and fiber. You can find their foods in their farm store, both on-site and online through their…
Meet Tate Brumsickle of Roche Harbor Farm! You’ll pass the colorful rows of Roche Harbor Farm on the right side of the road just before you enter Roche Harbor Resort on San Juan Island. The farm initially began as an employee-run market garden for the resort, but after trying it the first year, the resort decided…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
San Juan Island: September 20-22 Orcas Island: September 28 & 29 Lopez Island: October 5 & 6 https://islandgrownsj.com/?page_id=2831