2011 Farm Tour Program

Sunday, Sept. 18, 10am to 4pm

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By Pamela Roberts, WSU Je� erson County Extension Interim Director

September is an exciting time for local farmers and for the entire Je� erson County community when the WSU FARM TOUR

rolls back around each fall. � is is the time of the harvest - when children and families, grandparents and visitors convene to celebrate the working farms and farmers throughout Je� erson County. Join us to reconnect with where your food, � bers and shell� sh come from and to enjoy the fresh air, the friendly people, the farm animals, a bit of music, and the healthy food that comes from our local farms. For those who want a physical challenge, consider the Tour de Fermes bike tour as a way to cut down on your carbon footprint. We have also established “Farm Tour Central” at the Chimacum Corner Farmstand where you can meet with friends to carpool before going out to tour the farms.

Join us and bring a friend, knowing that this special day is available annually for all our community to enjoy since it is entirely FREE to the public.

Our county of 30,000 residents is among the smallest by population in Washington State, and yet we have become a high quality center of excellence in the farming world. � e WSU FARM TOUR helps us celebrate that achievement together.

You should know that:

• Je� erson County has a team of dedicated agricultural entrepreneurs forging new and better ways to farm, emphasizing organic practices that eliminate the use of toxic chemicals, hormones and antibiotics in local food production.

• We have a growing sector of agricultural researchers living here and

some are internationally recognized in areas such as the protection and propagation of seed diversity. Others are exploring sustainable farming methods that enhance agricultural soils and that honor a healthy ecological balance between water, air, trees, soil, farm animals and food production. Still others are leading the way in the shell� sh sector, helping us monitor and protect the

precious marine water resources we have around us that are so vital to their success.

• Je� erson County has an increasing e� ective local food system that owes much to organizations that support the sales of local agricultural products, including the Port Townsend Farmer’s Market, Port Townsend Food Co-op, Chimacum Farmer’s Market and the Chimacum Corner Farmstand.

• WSU Je� erson County Extension has

cast a positive spotlight on our wonderful Je� erson County farms and researchers through its connections with the WSU International Programs in Pullman. In the past we have worked with Taiwan, Rwanda and Ecuador. � is year WSU and our local farmers will collaborate on agricultural and economic development projects with Ghana, Pakistan and Ecuador.

• We have important public and private organizations in our community that collaborate to support the long-term protection of working lands for farming and forestry in Je� erson County. � ese organizations also work together to protect critical habitat, as well as lands with unique characteristics such as those with public views and public access to special natural resource areas. � e Je� erson LandWorks Collaborative member organizations are: Je� erson County Conservation District, Je� erson County Farmer’s Market, � e Port Townsend Food Co-op, Je� erson Land Trust, Northwest Natural Resource Group, Shore Bank Enterprise Cascadia, Sun� eld Land for Learning, and WSU Je� erson County Extension.

• Our local vegetable and fruit producers are inspiring us to eat fresh, healthy food and to explore a broader variety of cuisines and recipes that focus on cooking local produce that is in season. Many local farms o� er Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) plans that facilitate direct sales to the consumer, thereby providing a much-needed, higher pro� t to participating farmers.

• Working voluntarily with local professionals dedicated to Olympic Peninsula salmon renewal, our farmers have embraced their role in protecting and restoring riparian habitats for salmon – showing the world that through � exible thinking and collaboration we can successfully balance healthy food production with the need to restore our natural habitats.

• Local farmers are exploring creative and varied methods to stay � nancially viable by providing additional services on their farms such as Bed and Breakfast facilities, farm tours, tasting rooms and educational workshops.

• We have an organic dairy in Chimacum that has stayed in business despite the loss of so many others. � ey produce high quality organic milk, which helps give them the margin of pro� t needed to stay economically viable.

• Our dairy, beef, goat, sheep and chicken farms provide free-range, wide open pasture lifestyles, creating an environment that is happy and healthy for both animals and local citizens to enjoy.

• Je� erson County has a growing cheese industry with unique local products emerging every month and plans for a new creamery to be restored in the heart of our agricultural center in Chimacum.

• Je� erson County is successfully nurturing a new generation of farmers through a unique program that places interns onto local farms and provides them hands-on experiences and academic education.

• We have a growing number of apple orchards and hard cider producers that are winning regional awards for their cider quality. Several also have tasting rooms for visitors to enjoy.

• Our dedicated � ber farms are inspiring a host of local � ber artists and processors with the high quality wool produced from their diverse breeds of sheep, llamas and alpacas.

• � e average distance that food travels to reach our homes is 1500 miles. Farmers and community members alike are beginning to explore local meat production, including establishing facilities to process meat locally.

Innovations related to farming are happening in unique and customized ways on each and every farm in Je� erson County because our local agricultural community has embraced a mindset of experimentation and a willingness to try new and promising approaches. Farmers in our community are dedicated to scienti� c inquiry and are eager to ask basic questions. � ey are willing to challenge the notion that things are best because, “It is what we have always done.” Our farmers embrace a more visionary stance and are bold enough to ask,“How can we do this better?”

� ere is so much to celebrate in our Je� erson County farming community – please join us and give your local farmers a much-deserved pat on the back!

Stop by and join us on the land…

John Navazio, Senior Scientist, Research & Education, Seed Extension Specialist OSA/WSU

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WSU Je� erson County Extension Interim Director

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IN THIS PUBLICATION: Photos by Sally Chapin, Pamela Roberts, Katy McCoy and Crystie Kisler.

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Coulter Kisler enjoys a gleeful relationship with apples at his family’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery.

An Apple a Day Keeps the Farm Boy at Play, and Work

By Crystie KislerFinnriver Farm

My younger son, three year old Coulter, drags the ladder next to the tall stack of wooden apple bins, methodically climbs the steps, and then tries to hurl himself into the pile of mounded Galas. He is ecstatic. It’s like one of those play-pens � lled with colorful plastic balls, only these are edible, and organic! � is batch of apples is getting pressed into juice, for eventual fermentation into cider, and their ripe, red, round presence is a great temptation to my boy. He reaches into the bin to pluck an apple from the pile, takes one ferocious bite and then tosses it over his shoulder in a � t of gleeful mischief. After the second incident of wasteful hurling, he is politely relocated over to the apple press where we hope to put his throwing arm to better use. � ere he stands on a bin edge and, with the help of his father, aims apples into the chute of the press. � e apples are quite large, and his hands can barely wrap around one, so he rises from the bin with an armload and wrangles each one proudly into the chute.

I am surprised that my son is not uncomfortable around the press, which is loud and rather intimidating during the

“chipping” phase of the operation. After traveling down the chute, the apples are shredded into tiny pieces by a bladed hammer-mill that works much like a big blender, � inging chunks of apple out the top at times and snorting and roaring as it goes. But even though I am a bit shy about getting up close and personal with the press, this little boy seems to love it! And then I recall an image of him as a baby (not even one yet) in a blue snowsuit, tucked into a pack on his father’s back while Keith sorted and pressed apples in the mid-winter chill. � is child, I realize, was introduced to the joys of fresh apple juice very early in his life. And he was lulled to sleep many a day by the rumble of that press, his little head resting on his dad’s shoulders while the work of the cidery carried on.

� anks to his early exposure to loud equipment and to long hours supervising the work on his dad’s back, it looks like Coulter will be a great farm-hand, undaunted by the rumble and repetition of jobs like pressing apples. � e golden juice dripping from the barrel is his reward; and ours is raising our children on a farm, with good purpose, wonderful community and food and drink that honors its origins in the land.

Thursday, Fri, Sat, SunSept. 15-18Northwest Earth Institute 2011 Bi-annual NORTH AMERICAN GATHERING & CONFERENCE“If Not Me, Then Who?” Building Healthy Communities & Local Food Systems One Conversation at a Time.

Port Townsend community members, partners, course organizers, course participants and volunteers. Enjoy three days of hiking, yoga, workshops on sustainable food, edible landscaping, dynamic community organizing, networking and community building. Keynote Speaker is Will Allen, urban farmer and retired American Basketball player.

Fort Worden State Park & Conference Center, Port Townsend

$55 - $75

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Sat. & Sun., Sept. 17 & 18FIBER FARM TOUR10 am - 4 pm It’s FREE!

Ananda Hills, Jacob’s Fleece, Compass Rose Farm, Spring Hill Farm, Taylored Fibers

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Sunday - Sept. 18WSU FARM TOUR & TOUR DE FERMES10 am - 4 pm It’s FREE!

4-H Shell� sh Farm, Alpen� re Cider, Ananda Hills Farm, Bishop Dairy, Colinwood Farm, Compass Rose Farm, Elk Meadows, Finnriver Farm, Jacob’s Fleece, Mystery Bay Farm, Red Dog Farm, Short’s Family Farm, Spring Hill Farm, SpringRain Farm, Sun� eld Farm, Taylored Fibers, Westbrook Angus, Whiskey Hill Farm

Join Port Townsend Bicycle Association in celebrating our local farms through the Tour de Fermes. Details can be found at:

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Look for our red WSU banner at Farm Tour Central located at the Chimacum Corner Farmstand on Sunday.

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In the past few years many leadership positions in Je� erson County have been in transition. Kenna Eaton is the new General

Manager at � e Food Co-op. Pamela Roberts is Interim Director of WSU Extension participating in an active search to replace Katherine Baril. Teresa Verraes is the new executive director at the Je� erson County Chamber of Commerce. We have a new school superintendent, hospital director, and have had � ve Je� erson Transit Authority General Managers in just over one year. In the past � ve years we have had three di� erent Farmer’s Market Directors.

� is type of transition makes recording the history of something like the WSU Farm Tour challenging because producers of the early farm tours have moved on.

My interest in farm tour history was sparked by my desire to increase awareness of � e Food Co-op’s role in sponsoring the farm tour consistently since its inception nine years ago. I was also curious why the tour name was changed from “Je� erson County Farm Tour” to “WSU Farm Tour” during the 6th Farm Tour in 2007. Why was it suddenly the WSU Farm Tour? Had this community event, sponsored since its inception by the same three organizations -- WSU Extension, � e Port Townsend Food Co-op, and the Farmer’s Market -- somehow left the Farmer’s Market and the Food Co-op behind in recognition?

My research has left me humbled, and in a nutshell, what follows is a very brief farm tour history. Maybe this article will generate more information on the history of the tour from those that have been involved over the years. If so, please contact me at [email protected] and let’s build a written history to share, honoring all those who helped to grow this event. Katherine Baril has already agreed to help with this project.

Apparently, in 2003, the Farmer’s Market Board (basically Phil and Wendy Norquest) approved a fee of $500 per month to hire a director. Harvindar Singh responded to the call and moved his family to Port Townsend to run the � edgling market. � at same year, Katherine Baril, then director of WSU Extension, wanted to start a farm tour in Je� erson County and had some money in her budget. Recognizing the value of augmenting Mr. Singh’s meager salary,

Katherine o� ered Singh $2,000 more per month to produce a farm tour and the � rst Je� erson County Farm Tour was born. Shuttles to and from � e Food Co-op and participating farms were supplied by Je� erson County Transit. Ten farms participated.

So, the event has always been a WSU Farm Tour, sponsored by the Farmer’s Market and Port Townsend Food Co-op. � e details of actual collaboration have been challenging to verify as � nancial support o� ered to WSU by the two sponsors over the years has varied from nothing to $3000 per year. Yet every year, Katherine generously placed the logos of the Farmer’s Market and � e Food Co-op on every poster, and from the � rst Farm Tour insert in the Leader, has given the back page to the three founding organizations.

Once I got over my embarrassment for feeling such entitlement on behalf of � e Food Co-op, I began to mull over the importance of knowing the history of something. Should we awake each day as though everything is new and live in the moment? Would it be valuable to put energy into understanding the history of something, even if it requires considerable research? Does anyone really care

about origin stories? Is it important to understand the relationship between the past, present and future? � ese questions are signi� cant to me currently because � e Food Co-op is celebrating our 40th anniversary in 2012 and we will be collecting stories from our owners about their personal experience of the past 40 years. We’d love to hear your story.

While contemplating these questions, I remembered an experience I’d had while living in the Oakwood section of Venice Beach in the early 1990s. My neighborhood was in transition. Gentri� cation was displacing families that had been living in a once economically depressed area of Los Angeles. � e grandkids of my across-the-street neighbor, eighty-year-old Vannie (who had purchased her house in the 1950s), the � rst black nurse hired to work at Santa Monica General Hospital decades earlier, were helping me wash my car. I went inside to get refreshments, bringing out fresh peaches. While juice was running down their delighted faces, the oldest brother asked me, “What are these?”

I was stunned into mute confusion. What did he mean? Could it be possible that these kids had never had a fresh peach before?

� e reason this story comes to mind is connected to our WSU Farm Tour. It’s connected to knowing the origins of our

food. It’s connected to telling the story of our farms and farmers and connecting the dots between the sun, the soil, the tree, the farmer and the can of peaches at the store. It’s connected to the need for families and educators to help their kids understand the history of their food.

I recently watched a video related to my work as President of the Je� erson County Farm to School Coalition. � e producers of the video were asking a group of elementary school students eating French fries to identify what vegetable they were eating. Only one of � ve students could name the potato, and when asked to name where it grew, none could do so. We’ve travelled that far from the origins of our food, our farms, and our farmers. Our kids no longer know the origins of French fries. � e WSU Farm Tour, produced this year by Pamela Roberts, is a great place to remedy this lack of food history, and a fun day to boot!

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Farm Tour History: Telling the Origin Story

Compass Rose Farm plants their produce in healthy, colorful patches.

Chickens and sheep enjoy each other’s company at Compass Rose Farm.


By Katy McCoyChimacum Corner Farmstand

The grocery store as a community center? Yep, that’s exactly what Malcolm Dorn, Phil Vogelzang and

I envisioned in November, 2010, when we opened Chimacum Corner Farmstand, a new local “FOOD FROM HERE” grocery located at the confluence of Chimacum’s two rich agricultural valleys, Center and Beaver. If you think about it, grocery stores are natural community centers. As Phil points out, “Food is the original glue that held societies together. How well they managed that food supply determined their ability to survive years of famine and pestilence.”

It is still true today that how we choose to grow and procure food can greatly affect the health and cohesiveness of our community. The best local agricultural practices can play a huge role in preserving healthy soils, streams, and wildlife, building local economy, creating rich cultural traditions, and keeping its human inhabitants healthy and happy.

From the beginning of non-native settlement of the Olympic Peninsula in the late 1800s, Chimacum functioned as an important agricultural center. In those days, all food was necessarily local, and the thousands living and working in the booming mill and smelter towns of Port Townsend, Port Hadlock, Port Ludlow, Irondale, Discovery Bay, and Port Gamble all had to eat. Chimacum’s two valleys, Center and Beaver, boasted not only the best agricultural land on the peninsula, but they were also centrally located. A prosperous and diverse farming community developed along with an axis of roads that carried large quantities of food out in all directions. The thriving hub of that axis was at the intersecton where Chimacum Corner Farmstand sits today.

As the extraction industries ran their course and the mill towns began to close,

Chimacum, besides growing lots of wheat, began to specialize in dairy and expand its reach, selling to places like Seattle. By mid-century there were well over 60 small dairies, Glendale Dairy being the biggest with a large creamery that processed milk from the smaller dairies. For a time, farmers prospered, but consolidation continued, and before long, everyone (including Glendale) was either owned by or sold their milk directly to Darigold. It became the norm for food to be shipped further and further distances. Economic factors favoring industrial-scaled operations forced dairy after dairy to close. (Today, only one defiant dairy, Bishop Organic Valley Dairy, remains.) Chimacum lost its agricultural footing, and with it a big part of its identity and purpose. 20,000 cars may drive through each day, but few stop or appreciate its impressive history.

There is reason to hope however that this trend away from sustainable farming and local food may finally be reversing in our area. Older farmers, unwilling to give up, are trying new tricks, while younger farmers

are flocking to the valley with big ambition and new ideas. Farm interns from across the country are coming to East Jefferson County to take part in the “field program” and mentor under the instruction of our local farmers, while WSU provides lots of other educational opportunities through its extension “ag” programs. Jefferson Landworks Collaborative, a network of diverse organizations, is working hard to find creative ways to preserve working farmland and keep local farms

economically viable. One of their most recent successes is that within the next few years, Mount Townsend Creamery will be moving their entire creamery and heifer cow operation to Chimacum. And last, but not least, a grass roots movement is taking hold. As we all become more aware of the industrial food system’s hidden costs to the environment, animal welfare, personal health, and national security, people are increasingly choosing to invest in our future via buying local food.

Which brings us back to Chimacum Corner Farmstand and our vision. We believe that in our century-long journey away from eating local, our community lost much of the “food glue” that held it together, kept it healthy, and gave us purpose. We want to be part of the glue that begins the repair process. We are only part of the glue however which includes farmers, producers, other markets, supportive institutions, and of course YOU, the educated principled consumer.

Our primary goal is to build a public marketplace where local farmers can one day make a decent living feeding the locale. If we can enrich the experience further by acting as a community center where neighbors get to know each other and connect to where their food comes from, so much the better. It is all strangely reminiscent of Chimacum in 1900. (Except of course…we have a much better website: www.chimacumcorner.com)

We’re honored to be the headquarters this year for the annual WSU Farm Tour. Please come visit us at 9122 Rhody Drive on Hwy 19. We’re open daily 9-7. Look for the 12’ rooster at the only 4 way stop in Chimacum!

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and

Fiesta

Jalis

co Re

staur

ant.

~ Fa

rmer

led t

ours

at 10

, 12 a

nd 2:

00.

~ G

oat M

ilking

dem

onstr

ation

at 11

:00~

Visit

ing ar

ea w

ith go

ats,

shee

p, ch

icken

s and

ra

bbits ~

Farm

prod

ucts

and �

bre

on sa

le.~

Sun�

eld W

aldor

f Sch

ool c

lassro

oms o

pen

for t

ourin

gSu

n� el

d Far

m us

es bi

odyn

amic

farm

ing

met

hods

to en

rich a

nd re

plenis

h the

soils

, and

no

urish

a div

ersit

y of c

rops

and a

nimals

as a

mod

el of

susta

inable

agric

ultur

e. Th

e far

m se

rves

CSA

mem

bers

and t

he lo

cal c

omm

unity

with

a va

riety

of

orga

nicall

y gro

wn pr

oduc

e.Su

n� el

d, La

nd fo

r Lea

rning

, is a

non-

pro�

t or

ganiz

ation

with

a co

mm

unity

build

ing m

ission

of

educ

ation

and l

and s

tewa

rdsh

ip. Th

e eigh

ty-o

ne

acre

s of �

elds

, fore

st an

d wet

lands

, with

76 ac

res

held

in co

nser

vatio

n, is

a lea

rning

envir

onm

ent f

or

a pre

-K th

roug

h gra

de ei

ght W

aldor

f Sch

ool a

nd

com

mun

ity ed

ucat

ion pr

ogra

ms t

hat s

erve

regio

nal

schoo

ls fo

r far

m vi

sits a

nd ho

st a v

ariet

y of e

vent

s an

d wor

ksho

ps. D

uring

the f

arm

tour

a fre

e wor

ksho

p on

Hug

elkult

ur, an

ancie

nt m

etho

d of c

reat

ing

grow

ing be

ds fr

om w

oody

mat

erial

, will

be he

ld fro

m

12 to

2p.m

. (Hu

gelku

ltur |

Je¡ e

rson C

ount

y, W

A –

Solid

Was

te Pr

ogra

m). W

e inv

ite yo

u to l

earn

mor

e ab

out b

iodyn

amic

agric

ultur

e on a

farm

er-le

d tou

r of

the g

arde

ns an

d the

com

posti

ng sy

stem

, obs

erve

m

ilking

and w

ool p

roce

ssing

dem

onstr

ation

s give

n by

our 4

-H st

uden

ts, an

d visi

t with

our f

arm

anim

als.

To le

arn m

ore a

bout

our p

rogr

ams,

pleas

e visi

t www

.su

n� el

dfar

m.or

g or c

all (3

60) 3

85-3

658.

6. S

prin

gRai

n Fa

rm

and

Orch

ard

John

G. B

ello

w42

5-21

8-77

5618

7 Cov

ingt

on W

ay, C

him

acum

, WA

9832

5in

fo@

sprin

grai

nfar

m.o

rgsp

ringr

ainf

arm

ando

rchar

d.co

m

Dire

ction

s: Fro

m SR

19 he

ading

sout

h, ta

ke a

left t

urn o

nto C

oving

ton W

ay an

d go t

o the

end o

f th

e driv

eway

. Par

k on t

he le

ft. Fr

om SR

19 he

ading

no

rth, t

ake t

he � r

st rig

ht af

ter H

J Car

roll P

ark.

Look

fo

r sign

s. Sp

ringR

ain Fa

rm &

Orch

ard h

as be

en de

signa

ted

as pr

ime a

gricu

ltura

l land

sinc

e the

1920

s and

is

a dive

rsi� e

d cer

ti� ed

orga

nic fa

rm. W

e foc

us

on pr

oduc

ing a

varie

ty of

small

fruit

s inc

luding

ra

spbe

rries

and b

luebe

rries

, egg

s, ch

icken

, tur

key,

lamb,

and h

eirloo

m ap

ples a

nd pe

ars. W

e hav

e an

ecolo

gical

appr

oach

to fa

rm m

anag

emen

t and

are

com

mitt

ed to

susta

inable

agric

ultur

e des

igned

to

mee

t loc

al co

mm

unity

need

s. Co

me v

isit u

s and

try

the S

pring

Rain

Chall

enge

- a t

reas

ure h

unt o

f ac

tiviti

es fo

r all a

ges!

7. R

ed D

og F

arm

Kary

n Will

iam

s 36

0-73

2-02

23

406 C

ente

r Rd.

, Chi

mac

um, W

A, 98

325

info

@re

ddog

farm

.net

re

ddog

farm

.net

Dire

ction

s: Fro

m th

e int

erse

ction

of SR

19 an

d Ce

nter

Rd, t

urn s

outh

onto

Cent

er Rd

. Foll

ow to

#4

06. M

ake a

right

into

the d

rivew

ay an

d hea

d for

th

e red

barn

. Se

ttled

in th

e fer

tile C

ente

r Vall

ey, R

ed D

og Fa

rm

boas

ts go

rgeo

us vi

ews,

salm

on-b

earin

g Chim

acum

Cr

eek f

ront

age,

and p

rime g

rowi

ng co

nditi

ons. W

e ar

e cer

ti� ed

orga

nic an

d gro

w ov

er 15

0 di¡

eren

t va

rietie

s of v

eget

ables

, ber

ries a

nd � o

wers

on 23

ac

res.

Our p

rodu

ce is

sold

locall

y at P

ort T

owns

end

and C

himac

um fa

rmer

s mar

kets,

our 1

0-m

onth

long

CS

A pro

gram

, at t

he fa

rm at

our f

abulo

us se

lf-se

rve

Farm

stand

, and

thro

ugh v

ariou

s ret

ailer

s and

re

staur

ants.

Re

d Dog

Farm

is op

erat

ed by

owne

r Kar

yn

Willi

ams a

long w

ith he

r tale

nted

crew

inclu

ding

Laur

a Llew

ellyn

, Zac

h Yak

ush,

Kyra

Willi

ams,

Joel

Soko

lo¡ a

nd D

an H

ysko

. Red

Dog

Farm

is na

med

afte

r Ru

pert

Dand

elion

, Kar

yn's

red b

orde

r coll

ie.

Visit

Red D

og on

the F

arm

Tour

and b

e tre

ated

to

a to

ur of

the �

elds

by on

e of t

he fa

bulou

s cre

w m

embe

rs, a

delic

ious C

ape C

leare

salm

on sa

ndwi

ch,

a sco

op of

seas

onall

y-ins

pired

Elev

ated

Ice C

ream

, liv

e tun

es fr

om Je

¡ erso

n Cou

nty's

� nes

t mus

ician

s, an

d fre

sh fa

rm pr

oduc

e ava

ilable

at ou

r far

m st

and.

Bring

the w

hole

family

for a

day o

f fun

, but

plea

se

leave

your

dogs

at ho

me!

8. W

estb

rook

Ang

usCh

uck A

nd Ju

lie B

oggs

360-

732-

4335

13

11 W

est V

alley

Roa

d Chi

mac

um, W

A 98

325

westb

rook

angu

s@ya

hoo.c

om

westb

rook

angu

s.wor

dpre

ss.co

m

Dire

ction

s: Go

past

the C

himac

um Sc

hool

and

turn

onto

Wes

t Vall

ey Ro

ad go

ing so

uth.

Go a

bout

1.3

mile

s and

1311

Wes

t Vall

ey Ro

ad is

on yo

ur le

ft.

Loca

ted i

n the

hear

t of b

eaut

iful C

himac

um

Valle

y, W

estb

rook

Angu

s sell

s gra

ss-fed

blac

k An

gus d

irectl

y. Ca

ll to p

lace o

rder

s or e

mail

. Juli

e is

a mem

ber o

f a Ch

imac

um pi

onee

r fam

ily th

at

distin

guish

ed th

emse

lves a

s well

-kno

wn le

ader

s in

the �

eld o

f Ang

us br

eedin

g. He

r par

ents

were

Wall

y an

d May

Wes

terg

aard

. Ju

lie an

d her

husb

and,

Chuc

k, se

t a hi

gh

stand

ard f

or an

imal

husb

andr

y, m

ainta

ining

a he

althy

herd

and p

rodu

cing d

elicio

us m

eat f

or

the c

onsu

mer.

You c

an se

e the

ir her

ds at

stat

e and

re

giona

l fairs

in th

e sum

mer

s whe

re th

ey al

ways

ta

ke to

p priz

es. T

he W

estb

rook

Angu

s far

m is

amon

g th

e mos

t bea

utifu

l in ou

r cou

nty w

ith it

s lus

h gre

en

pastu

res a

nd ha

ppy,

healt

hy an

imals

.

9. S

hort

's Fa

mily

Far

mRo

ger a

nd Sa

ndy S

hort

360-

301-

3521

1594

Cent

er Va

lley R

oad C

him

acum

, WA

9836

5rsh

ort4

2@gm

ail.c

omsh

ortsf

amily

farm

.com

Dire

ction

s: Lo

cate

d 1.5

mile

s sou

th of

the

inter

secti

on of

SR19

and C

ente

r Rd.

From

4-wa

y sto

p, tu

rn so

uth o

n Cen

ter R

d. Fo

llow

to #1

594.

Turn

right

(w

est)

into d

rivew

ay an

d foll

ow si

gns t

o par

king.

The S

hort

family

has b

een f

arm

ing th

e sam

e 45

0 acre

s of C

himac

um Va

lley s

ince 1

945.

Com

e see

th

eir m

ost r

ecen

t end

eavo

rs: ra

ising

USD

A cer

ti� ed

gr

ass-f

ed be

ef an

d pro

ducin

g ove

r 600

0 yar

ds of

co

mpo

st an

d mag

ical s

oil fo

r loc

al ga

rden

ers. T

our

the c

ompo

sting

facil

ity, le

arn a

bout

the c

ompo

sting

pr

oces

s and

orde

r som

e "M

agic

Dirt.

" Rog

er an

d fam

ily w

ill be

show

ing o¡

the

ir bee

f ret

ail bu

sines

s an

d will

be av

ailab

le to

disc

uss t

he ne

cessi

ty of

good

pa

sture

main

tena

nce f

or ra

ising

healt

hy be

ef an

d pr

eser

ving t

he he

alth o

f our

wat

ersh

ed.

10. F

innr

iver

Far

mKe

ith an

d Cry

stie K

isler

, Ja

net A

ubin

and J

e� H

orwa

th36

0-73

2-68

2262

Bar

n Swa

llow

Road

, Chi

mac

um, W

A 98

325

info

@� n

nrive

rfarm

.com

ww

w.� n

nrive

r.com

Dire

ction

s: Fro

m th

e int

erse

ction

of SR

19

and C

ente

r Rd,

follo

w Ce

nter

Rd so

uth 2

.7 m

iles t

o Co

untry

Mea

dow

Rd. T

urn r

ight (

west)

onto

Coun

try

Mea

dow

Rd. F

ollow

until

road

split

s, an

d foll

ow to

th

e righ

t, pa

st ho

uses

, and

park

at ba

rn.

Finnr

iver is

a 33

-acre

certi

� ed o

rgan

ic fam

ily

farm

, orch

ard a

nd ar

tisan

cide

ry, co

mm

itted

to

creat

ing de

ep-ro

oted

and f

ruitf

ul co

nnec

tions

to

the l

and,

our w

ild an

d hum

an ne

ighbo

rs, an

d to

our c

omm

unity

. We g

row

an as

sortm

ent o

f ber

ry

crops

, mixe

d veg

etab

les, h

eirloo

m ap

ples,

as w

ell

as o¡

ering

a “su

staina

ble st

aples

” CSA

prog

ram

. We

keep

hone

y bee

s, ra

ise la

yer a

nd m

eat c

hicke

ns, a

s we

ll as a

few

pigs,

goat

s and

shee

p. St

op by

the

farm

and e

njoy

a vis

it to

the C

idery

tasti

ng ro

om

to en

joy th

e fer

men

ted f

ruits

of ou

r lab

or. $5

give

s yo

u a sa

mple

of a

hand

ful o

f har

d cide

rs an

d fru

it wi

nes.

Den

ted B

uoy P

izza w

ill be

on-si

te se

lling

wood

-� re

pizz

a, Ah

mad

Baab

ahar

will

be pr

ovidi

ng

live m

usic,

and s

tory

telle

r Bria

n Roh

r will

o¡ er

fam

ily-fr

iendly

stor

ytim

e at 2

:00 pm

.

11. B

ishop

Fam

ily D

airy

The B

ishop

Fam

ily36

0-77

4-05

8226

91 Eg

g & I R

oad,

Chim

acum

WA

9832

5

Dire

ction

s: Dr

ive so

uth o

n Bea

ver V

alley

Rd. T

urn

right

on Eg

g & I a

nd go

1/4 m

ile. T

he fa

rm is

on th

e lef

t. Pa

rk ne

ar th

e bar

n and

hous

e.Co

me v

isit t

he hi

storic

Bish

op D

airy,

hom

e to

a loc

al leg

end a

nd lo

re-a

s well

as or

ganic

milk

ing

cows

! For

over

100 y

ears

the B

ishop

s hav

e far

med

th

ese 5

25-a

cres w

hich i

nspir

ed Be

tty M

acDo

nald'

s fam

ous b

ook,

"The

Egg &

I". Co

me d

o a se

lf-gu

ided

tour

of th

e far

m an

d lea

rn ab

out t

heir C

erti�

ed

Orga

nic pr

actic

es. P

lus, m

eet t

hree

gene

ratio

ns

work

ing to

geth

er to

pres

erve

this

impo

rtant

piec

e of

Je¡ e

rson C

ount

y's ag

ricult

ural

herit

age.

12. S

prin

g Hi

ll Fa

rmGa

ry an

d Mar

gare

t Wal

ters

360-

732-

4856

3723

Bea

ver V

alley

Roa

d, Po

rt Lu

dlow

, WA

9836

5sp

ringh

illro

mne

ys.co

m

* Ope

n for

tour

Sept

embe

r 17 a

nd 18

, 201

1Ga

ry an

d Mar

gare

t Walt

ers h

ave b

een r

aising

pu

rebr

ed Ro

mne

ys fo

r ove

r 25 y

ears.

They

have

su

ccessf

ully s

hown

their

shee

p all o

ver t

he U

nited

St

ates

and h

ave w

on m

any r

ibbon

s and

awar

ds in

reco

gniti

on of

the q

ualit

y of t

heir s

heep

and w

ool.

Their

farm

is lo

cate

d in B

eave

r Vall

ey w

here

M

arga

ret h

as de

velop

ed an

exte

nsive

line o

f pro

ducts

m

ade f

rom

her o

wn sh

eep's

� ber.

She h

as an

arra

y of

com

bed a

nd ca

rded

woo

l as w

ell as

seve

ral

weigh

ts of

yarn

, all i

n bea

utifu

l nat

ural

color

s. If y

ou

are a

spinn

er lo

oking

for a

raw

� eec

e to w

ork w

ith,

Mar

gare

t has

man

y bea

utifu

l � ee

ces t

o cho

ose f

rom

. Sh

e also

has �

at fe

lt fo

r sale

, woo

l soc

ks, c

omfo

rter

batts

and b

lanke

ts.On

Satu

rday

and S

unda

y, th

e Walt

ers w

ill ha

ve

shea

ring d

emon

strat

ions a

t 11:0

0, 1:0

0 and

3:00

.

13. A

nand

a Hi

lls F

arm

Jenn

ie W

atkin

s36

0-73

2-01

1155

3 Em

body

Roa

d, Po

rt Lu

dlow

, WA

9836

5jew

atkin

s@ol

ypen

.com

anan

dahi

llsfa

rm.w

ordp

ress

.com

Dire

ction

s: He

ading

sout

h on H

wy 19

, tra

vel 1

.5 m

iles p

ast E

gg &

I Rd.,

turn

right

on Em

body

Rd.

* Ope

n for

tour

Sept

embe

r 17 a

nd 18

, 201

1An

anda

Hills

Farm

is a

small

and c

ozy p

lace

locat

ed in

the h

ills ab

ove B

eave

r Vall

ey. T

he ow

ner,

Jenn

ie W

atkin

s, sp

ecial

izes i

n rais

ing or

ganic

eggs

an

d She

tland

Shee

p, a d

iminu

tive b

reed

origi

natin

g in

the S

hetla

nd Is

lands

that

prod

uces

an am

azing

am

ount

of be

autif

ul wo

ol in

a var

iety o

f di¡

eren

t co

lors. At

Anan

da H

ills Fa

rm, a

ll the

farm

ing ac

tiviti

es

have

a sy

mbio

tic re

lation

ship.

The h

ens s

cratch

up

the m

anur

e lef

t beh

ind by

the s

heep

allow

ing it

to

dry u

p fas

ter r

esult

ing in

clea

ner p

astu

res. T

he

bedd

ing fr

om th

e bot

h the

chick

ens a

nd th

e she

ep

is tu

rned

into

com

post

that

enha

nces

the s

oil in

the

vege

table

gard

ens.

Durin

g the

Farm

Tour,

Jenn

ie wi

ll hav

e an

asso

rtmen

t of r

aw � e

eces

for s

ale as

well

as ro

ving

prep

ared

for s

pinnin

g. Sh

e will

also b

e fea

turin

g ha

nd-sp

un, h

and-

wove

n blan

kets

mad

e fro

m he

r ow

n woo

l.

14. C

ompa

ss R

ose

Farm

Ka

teen

Fent

er w

ith pa

rent

s, Be

v and

Rob

ert a

nd fa

mily

360-

379-

1443

14

63 W

est U

ncas

Roa

d, Po

rt To

wnse

nd, W

Am

kfen

ter@

gmai

l.com

com

pass

rose

farm

s.blo

gspo

t.com

* Ope

n for

tour

: Sep

tem

ber 1

7 and

18, 2

011

Dire

ction

s: fo

llow

Hwy 2

0 Wes

t to t

he

inter

secti

on w

ith 10

1. Tu

rn le

ft on

to 10

1, tra

vel 1

.5 m

iles t

hen t

urn r

ight o

nto W

est U

ncas

Road

at m

ile

post

284.

The f

arm

is th

e 4th

drive

way o

n the

right

.Co

mpa

ss Ro

se Fa

rm is

a be

autif

ul 40

acre

farm

loc

ated

in th

e Sno

w Cr

eek v

alley

. Kat

een,

her c

hildr

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By Will O’DonnellJe� erson County Farmers Market Director

The Port Townsend Farmers Market will celebrate 20 years of operation in 2012. When it started, downtown, all

those years ago, I am not sure if anyone would have guessed what the market would grow up to be: one of the largest most vibrant small town markets in the nation and Washington State’s 2011 Large Market of the Year; with over 70 vendors a week taking up a whole block, an average of 1500 customers weekly, over 25 farmers, lots of food, great art, music, a park next door, and sales nearing a million a year.

It’s an incredible achievement, for us and for our community. But in this town it’s almost de rigueur. Our Food Co-op has experienced a similar if not more dramatic curve. Look at the Maritime Center, the Film Festival, Centrum, Fort Worden – our town is full of state and national gems. Of course it is. We live in one of the most scenic counties in the nation. � e mix of natural beauty and temperate climate has attracted all kinds of folks who want to preserve and enhance and celebrate

it. For a place so small and remote we have a heck of a lot of interesting people and culture. If we didn’t have a great farmer’s market too than we’d be doing something wrong.

Fortunately we at the market mostly have had our acts together. It’s been easy in some ways. In the last ten years there has been a fantastic growth of farms and food in Je� erson County. Despite a near absence of broad agricultural valleys, or maybe because of it, we have seen a surge of small and innovative food producers sprout up all over the county. For the most part all we had to do was make room for them to show up and do what they do. In other cases the market itself has played a more direct role in help launching its vendors. Red Dog Farm got o� the ground through assistance from the Landworks Collaborative, of which the market is a member. Many of our food producers, Mt. Townsend, Pane D’Amore, and Finnriver, were able to incubate their businesses at the market and use it as a launching pad to grow into award winning regional endeavors.

� is last spring the market, after many years of work, achieved federal non pro� t (501c3) status. � at designates us as a charitable and educational endeavor. � is has confused some people; some of whom wonder why we weren’t a nonpro� t all this time, and others who wonder why a market, which exists to sell stu� , would ever be a charitable organization at all. In August I talked about this with some high school students. � ey wanted to know about the di� erences between a farmer’s market and a grocery store, which though seemingly obvious, illuminate why we sought and achieved non-pro� t status.

When it’s nice out, there is no better place to shop than the farmer’s market. We often have the freshest, best tasting produce that can be found, but it’s not easy. Unlike a grocery store, we hustle 3 times a week to setup and takedown impromptu stores in three di� erent locations. We sell outside in all kinds of weather, which impacts the people and the pro� ts in equal measure. On the plus side, customers get to meet the producers and build relationships with the folks that feed them. When customers come to the market, the bulk of their dollar goes right to the farmer. Grocery stores can buy direct from farmers too, if their corporate

policies aren’t too complex, but they only pay the grower 40-60% of what they charge the customer. � e rest goes to overhead and/or pro� ts. If it’s a large corporate chain store a portion of the money the farmer doesn’t get will leave the community, never to return. At the farmer’s market almost everything the customer spends stays in the farmer’s pocket and stays in the community.

It sounds simple but it’s not. Our market has some of the lowest fees in the state. Our board and sta� work hard to keep our costs low. We have to muster over 800 volunteer hours a year and fundraiser for almost a quarter of our budget just to run our makeshift stores. Our operations budget is less than a tenth of gross sales. No grocery store in the country could survive that – yet we do and we thrive. We thrive because our three farmer’s markets- Port Townsend Saturdays and Wednesdays, and the Chimacum Sunday Market, are community endeavors. We all give something to make them happen. Our city and county and local businesses donate space, time and services. Our customers, especially on Saturday, forgo the normal conveniences of easy parking, open aisles, and super-saver club pricing to be able to eat better and make a � nancial di� erence in the

lives of some of their fellow community members. Our farmers and vendors take the time to sell the produce directly, to meet their customers, know their children, or dogs, or relatives from out of town. It’s this kind of connection, and community that really separates the market from a grocery store, or another shopping endeavor, and that de� nes us as a nonpro� t. � e Je� erson County Farmers Markets

( JCFM) mission is not to sell produce. Our mission is to support local sustainable agriculture through the community gathering place that is our market. Our mission is to provide access to fresh and healthy local food.

Made up of local farmers, vendors and community members, the JCFM works to maintain as little space

as possible between people and their food. And that is why we strongly support the 2011 WSU Farm Tour and encourage you to come out and visit as many of our fabulous farms and cideries as you can. At the markets you can shake the hand that feeds you, at the WSU Farm Tour you can walk a while in their shoes. Make our county a better place, support and celebrate local food and farming in the Je� erson County Farmer’s Markets and the WSU Farm Tour.

Farmer’s Markets bring it in fresh

Colinwood Farm sells organic produce at the market.

The Port Townsend Farmers Market – Washington State’s 2011 Large Market of the Year.


� e people of Je� erson County have done a wonderful job supporting the vegetable, fruit, berry and cheese businesses that have taken hold in our area over the past several years. It is now time to come out and support our sheep farmers as well.

One way to do that is to take the Fiber Farm Tour, a loop on the larger WSU Farm Tour in Je� erson County. � e Fiber Farm Tour is open to the public on both Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. � is year, � ve farms are opening their gates to welcome you for a visit and to show you what can be done with the wool manufactured by their sheep. Each farm is a little di� erent and we encourage you to visit all � ve.

Spring Hill Farm on Beaver Valley Road is the oldest sheep farm in the area. Margaret and Gary Walters raise Romney Sheep and have focused on raising breeding stock while using the wool to create many di� erent products of value to the whole family: comforter batts, socks, sheets of felt, several di� erent weights of yarn in natural colors and spinner’s roving. Margaret and Gary will have shearing demonstrations on both Saturday and Sunday at 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00.

Compass Rose Farm is a more diverse agricultural enterprise. Kateen Fenter and her mother, Bev Fairing, have a large market garden and keep chickens and honey bees as well as maintain a � ock of Icelandic Sheep, a primitive breed that produces a doublecoated, long stapled � eece in many di� erent colors. So you don’t know what a doublecoated � eece is? What is staple? Go ask Kateen and see the beautiful � eeces

and the wonderful spinner’s roving that she produces.

Ananda Hills Farm, owned by Jennie Watkins, is a farm with a strong commitment to organic and sustainable agriculture. Jennie raises both chickens and Shetland Sheep, a small breed with naturally short tails that also grows long-stapled wool in many di� erent colors. (Did you know that most sheep are born with long tails?) Come and see how Jennie has connected the di� erent elements of her farm to enhance each other.

Jacob’s Fleece is a wonderful farm in Quilcene owned and operated by Jan Gillanders. Jan specializes in Jacob Sheep, another unique breed with multiple horns and black and white wool. All of her sheep have names and their own distinctive personalities. Jan takes her wool from raw form to creative � nished products that she has hand-spun and hand-knitted herself. Karen Rose of Rose Bud Farm in Port Townsend will be joining Jan with her beautiful products made from her own llama and alpaca � ber. Come and support their e� orts.

Taylored Fibers is also in Quilcene. Barry and Linda Taylor have a few sheep and a very friendly llama, but their biggest focus is on processing � ber for other shepherds. All of the other farms on the Fiber Farm Tour have used Barry’s services to wash and card their wool into spinner’s roving. Barry will demonstrate how the machinery works while other folks will be spinning the roving into yarn. So please, come and visit these farms. Pet a sheep, stick your hands into some beautiful wool and support your local shepherd.

Learn to farm with us!

� e Farmer Innovation, Education, & Leadership Development (FIELD) Program is an on-farm based internship in sustainable agriculture located in Je� erson County.

This collaborative educational program was developed by local farmers and Washington State University (WSU) Extension and provides interns the opportunity to study sustainable agricultural enterprises and community-based production systems at several diverse

farms in the Chimacum area. Interns are provided formal

instruction, � eld-based application of information, and involvement in projects on farms that produce and market vegetables, fruit, small berries, � eld crops, poultry, and livestock.

Each intern is based on a host farm that provides a home base with weekly opportunities to observe and engage in di� erent business and marketing approaches through activities at di� erent farms and community resources throughout the season.

� e FIELD program takes place in segments of three months. While interns may stay longer, they must participate for at least 3 months. � e sessions are March through May, June through August, and September through November.

For more information, go to http://ag.je� erson.wsu.edu or email � [email protected].

Enjoying animals at the WSU Farm Tour.

� e people of Je� erson County � e people of Je� erson County and the wonderful spinner’s roving that she and the wonderful spinner’s roving that she

Let’s support the fi ber of our community

Field interns and their mentors celebrate their graduation during a potluck at Sun� eld Farm.


Take a good look at Al Latham and it will tell you a lot about this man, who found his life’s niche, working outdoors,

supporting the health and success of the farms, forests and streams of Je� erson County. Al’s beard has a bit of grey in it now, but he is as � t as a teenager from years of climbing fences, building bridges, installing livestock pumps and more. He says he’s looking forward to retirement soon, but you wouldn’t know it by the way he jumps up eagerly to go visit a farm or survey a � eld.

Al started his career after high school when he attended the New York State Ranger School, in northern New York State. � ere he studied to become a forest technician. Next he came out to Washington State because he wanted to “see the big trees” and worked in the Shelton Ranger District, surveying roads. You get the gist of the impact of the next period of his life when Al shares that he next spent, “One year, eleven months and 18 days in the Army, 88 days in Viet Nam ”

After he returned from the war, Al took a two-year international trek that covered multiple continents. First he went to New Zealand to work at the Forest Research Institute for a year and then traveled to Australia where he worked in mineral and oil exploration in the outback to save some money. � en he bought a motorcycle in Singapore and along with a friend they traveled through Malaysia and � ailand, sticking a toe into Burma. Eventually, his friend and he parted ways, but Al continued by boat to India and then traveled to Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Europe. When it was all over, Al was 26 years old and had learned two important life lessons, which were that, “People are � ne everywhere and we have it easy.”

Al returned to the states and was in Minnesota when he met his wife, Susan at an environmental camp. She was working in a school. She had also previously lived in Washington State and so they decided to move back to the west together. � ey bought their home south of Chimacum or as Al likes to put it, “located slightly o� -Center.” Initially, Al worked as a farm hand for the Short’s Family Farm. He then started an herb farm and sold through the Pike Place Market in Seattle. � ey tried to start a farmer’s market in the Kively Center in Port Hadlock. By 1991 he began his work with the Je� erson County Conservation District, doing construction projects related to farming. Bruce Marston was

one of his colleagues at that time and they worked “grant to grant” for a number of years. Examples of projects at that time include channeling Leland Creek, water quality protection/improvement and stream fencing. � is evolved into more focus on salmon habitat projects on E. Je� erson Co. streams in collaboration with the Wild Olympic Salmon, North Olympic and Hood Canal Salmon Coalitions. One of the gratifying aspects of Al’s work was that he worked with landowners as willing partners to protect habitat rather than as a regulatory agent. He could advocate for landowners at the same time as he could help them understand more about what they could do to help protect and maintain habitat and critical areas.

Al has a high respect for landowners as he believes they know and appreciate their land more than anyone else can. He believes that as a rule landowners want to be good stewards. Of course, most think that they are good stewards – his challenge over the years was to help them become even better at caring for their lands. Early on Al worked with Ray Lowry and his Chimacum High School Fisheries class on improvements to Puttaansuu Creek in Chimacum.

A number of those “kids” are now local contractors who construct the stream projects.

In Al’s assessment, fencing and tree planting has made the biggest impact on salmon habitat restoration in Je� erson County. Keeping farm animals out of the streams and creating ways for them to access water without wading into the streams has been highly bene� cial for salmon habitat. He worries that with budgets becoming tight, some of the incentives that have assisted landowners to voluntarily comply with salmon habitat needs will disappear. “Incentives help,” Al

emphasized when asked about the most e� ective practice that was used during his career in working with landowners. Programs like the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) that help � nance the voluntary protection of critical areas by compensating landowners for removing stream bu� ers from agricultural production are seeing dramatic decreases in funding. Al also shared that permits are becoming more complicated to obtain even for bene� cial projects and maintenance of existing projects with less funding will be a challenge.

Along the way in this work Al has

enjoyed helping develop pieces of equipment, including the Kerry Perkins designed “Perkins trough” and solar powered pumps. He is proud of the riparian restoration work he has helped lead in Je� erson County and seeing the positive changes over the years. He also appreciates the willingness of landowners to voluntarily help restore habitat for salmon and other wild life.

Amy Rose Dubin and Bruce Gleeman of Chimacum Valley Dairy shared that, “We have worked closely with Al to traverse the challenges of developing a farm and to overcome some of the pitfalls related to various regulations, permits and such. I don’t believe we could have succeeded without his help and guidance and diplomacy - he is outstanding and we are sorry to see him retire. I think we are going to name a cheese for him!”

When asked about his upcoming retirement, Al quickly o� ered that, “I don’t want to go to any more meetings.” Al’s wife, Susan Latham, has a long list of things for him to do when he retires. Perhaps most compelling is the project they are working on with friends to establish a Camphill community on land next to Sun� eld Farm in Port Hadlock. Camphill would create an intentional community for their son, Jesse, and other developmentally disabled adults and help � ll the void left by the closing of the Skookum Jumprope Company. Al tells people that he will continue to freelance on various projects during his retirement and that, “My advice is free and worth every penny of it.”

� ank you, Al, for all your service to Je� erson County over the years – we greatly appreciate what you have done to make our community and our environment a better place for farms, families and � sh.

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Al Latham has been instrumental in helping farmers install and maintain solar-powered water pumps to keep livestock out of local streams and protect salmon habitat in Je� erson County.


Kateen Fenter of Compass Rose Farm.

The Cruach Woman

by Arthur Stringer (from the King Who Loved Old Clothes)

She never scours her copper pot,Nor hangs it in the sun;She never sits beside the hearthTo sew when day is done.

Her garden is a crazy thingOf twisty paths and treesWhere kale and thyme and docken bursStand almost to her knees.

Her window panes are thick with dust,Her hob is black with grease,For she’s the kind who couldn’t bideBetween four walls in peace.

She gives her house no time at all,But when the wind is loudShe roams the cli� s and open hillsAs carefree as a cloud.

She gives no thought to those dour thingsHer betters fret about;She’d rather watch the wheeling gullsAnd see the ships go out.

She loves the little paws of moles,� e paths that � eld mice run,� e � ash of pebbles in deep pools,And sea foam � ecked with sun.

She loves rain shadows on a moorWhere clouds make blue more blue,And the smell of wood smoke after frost,And footprints in the dew.

She loves the touch of thistledown,the feel of furry backs;She’ll watch a red fox for an hourAnd � air a badger’s tracks.

For she is wild and el� n brown,And when a killdeer callsOr when at night the wild geese honk,She can abide no walls.

But should she mate and bear a child(As with a wife is meet)‘Twould be a brown hill-loving thingWith little hoofs for feet.

And should she die, she’ll laugh and danceAnd toss her wind-blown headBetween the tombstones and the sunand shock the ancient Dead.

The “Good Food” Revolution

By Brwyn Gri� n,

Outreach/Education/Marketing ManagerPort Townsend Food Co-op

Saturday, September 17 from 7-9

pm at McCurdy Pavilion, Ft. Worden State Park, the Port Townsend Food Co-op is sponsoring a talk with urban street farmer, Will Allen. Son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer, Will has become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Will is widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture.

At Growing Power and in community food projects across the nation and around the world, Will promotes the belief that all people, regardless of their economic circumstances, should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times. Using methods he has developed over a lifetime Will trains community members to become community farmers, assuring them a secure source of good food without regard to political or economic forces.

In 2008, Will was named a John D. and Katherine T. McArthur Foundation Fellow and was awarded a prestigious foundation “genius grant” for his work — only the second farmer ever to be so honored. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching “Let’s Move!” her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. In May 2010, Time magazine named Will to the “Time 100 World’s Most Influential People.”

Tickets to the event are available at the door or at ww.brownpapertickets.com for $12 general admission. Food Co-op owners can purchase tickets for $10 at the store. All proceeds bene� t Northwest Earth Institute. We hope to see you join the Good Food Revolution!

Sarah Spaeth, Executive Director of Je� erson Land Trust, with Karyn Williams, owner of Red Dog Farm, a Je� erson Land Trust Protected Property.

Jeff erson Land Trust

At Je� erson Land Trust we are working with the community to preserve open space, working lands and habitat forever.

Je� erson Land Trust is a private, non-pro� t, grass-roots organization. Our mission is to help the community to preserve open space, working lands and habitat in Je� erson County on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Landowners work with a Land Trust when they wish to permanently protect wetlands, � oodplains, farmlands, wildlife corridors, and scenic areas from inappropriate development.

Je� erson Land Trust provides many services to landowners throughout our area. We help choose protection strategies that meet landowners’ conservation and � nancial needs.

� e Land Trust may become the owner of a particular piece of property, or we may hold the development rights transferred by a conservation easement. � rough transferring ownership or development rights to the Trust, a property owner may gain access to reductions in both federal and state taxes.

We work creatively with local residents, governments, agencies, and community groups on numerous collaborative projects. � ese include the Quimper Wildlife Corridor, a greenbelt of wetlands; Chimacum, Salmon and Snow Creeks, salmon habitat protection; and the Food Farm Network, promoting local sustainable agriculture.

Perhaps most importantly, our responsibility as a Land Trust obligates us to maintain a vigilant watch over these protected lands forever. Serving the east side of Je� erson County, Washington on the Western Shores of Puget Sound.


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