Stop by Horse Drawn Farm’s self-serve farm stand on Port Stanley Road or their booth at the Saturday Market in…
Home gardeners like a challenge and will often go to great lengths to succeed with a particular vegetable or fruit….
The First Annual Lopez Lamb and Wool Festival will fill the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts on…
If we are what we eat, what does the food we buy say about us? Here on Lopez, Blossom…
Vegetable gardeners who enjoy a challenge have already begun their 2011 planting, but for many other gardeners the first three…
It’s January and for passionate vegetable gardeners in our temperate, maritime climate, the new planting year begins now. I asked…
Gingerbread people and loaves of stollen from Holly B’s Bakery on Lopez are wonderful, local holiday gifts, but if you weren’t lucky enough to get to the bakery before it closed for the season, take heart! You can still bake your own.
It’s November and people are planning Thanksgiving dinner menus and inviting friends and family.
For me and for many of my vegetable gardening friends, the Seed Savers Exchange Catalog and the annual Seed Savers Yearbook are favorite sources of heirloom seeds.
I’ve been gardening in the Pacific Northwest for 30 years and I’m still thrilled that I can grow a winter…
There is a lot of interest in grass-fed, pastured, humanely raised cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. Especially with the recent 10th anniversary of the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative and its Mobile Slaughter Unit that have made raising these animals profitable for local farmers.
This fall is the tenth anniversary of the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative. It is also the ninth year of USDA-inspected meat processing with the IGFC’s Mobile Slaughter Unit and its cut and wrap facility in Bow.
Locally Grown is the theme of this year’s San Juan County Fair, Aug.18-21.
