We are a small family operation located on a 120-year-old homestead on Orcas Island, WA. The homestead is 34 acres and includes 20 acres of forest, a large pond, rolling pasture, and 2 acres of cultivated land on a south-facing slope, where we grow a diversity of annual vegetables, fruit, and flowers. We currently cultivate an additional 2.5 acres of vegetables and flowers in the center of Eastsound. This gives us the opportunity to grow additional produce for the community. We have developed a successful farm business growing organic vegetables, flowers, fruit, and herbs for our CSA, local grocery stores, farmers market, restaurants, food bank, and school. We view the farm as an educational space and intentionally create opportunities to extend the learning potential on this farm to others.

Details: Work on the farm includes seeding, transplanting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting, preparing produce and flowers for market, CSA dispatch, delivering to restaurants, food bank, grocery stores, and selling at the farmer’s market. Work entails physical labor and early mornings, repetitive, and sometimes challenging tasks in all kinds of weather.