FTBO Farmer Profiles
Beginning Farms: Wildroot Botanicals , Cascadia Mushrooms Highwater Farm, Alpenhorn Farm, Jordan Creek Farm, The Bellingham Urban Garden Syndicate (BUGS), Heritage Lane Farm, Victory Garlic, Misty Meadows Farm
Mentor Farms: Cedarville Farm , Cloud Mountain Farm, Boxx Berry Farm, The Growing Garden
Beginning Farms
WILDROOT BOTANICALS
Wildroot handcrafts artisan teas, tinctures, salves and lotions, as well as products for the childbearing years. All ingredients are high-quality, organic, ethically wildcrafted and fair trade. We support local farmers and harvest from our farm, which follows organic standards. We use our own hands to insure quality. Each product is made in small batches like our grandparents used to craft, preserving our wildroots!
CONTACT: 360-676-1877 info@wildrootbotanicals.com www.wildrootbotanicals.com
"Our farm produces the best in gourmet & medicinal mushrooms using sustainable, chemical-free growing practices from culture to compost. Our naturally grown exotic mushrooms promote the health and happiness of people and environment in the Puget Sound area.”
Alex Winstead, Owner
CASCADIA MUSHROOMS is an artisan mushroom farm growing the best in gourmet & medicinal mushrooms. All of our mushrooms are naturally grown on wood-based substrates without the use of manure, pesticides or fertilizers. Our fresh mushrooms and grow-your-own mushroom kits are available at the Sat Farmers Market, Apr-Dec and at the Food Coop & Terra Organica. Call or email for info on our cultivation workshops and our 6-month Mushroom Enthusiast CSA!
CONTACT: 360 714-8859 cascadiamushrooms@gmail.com
"It is a joy to take part in a cycle of weather, soil, people, animals, and plants that produce great food. Give thanks."
HIGHWATER FARM is a small family farm, raising organic fruits and vegetables in the Skagit River Valley.
CONTACT: 360 820-5335 highwaterfarm@gmail.com
ALPENHORN FARM
Alpenhorn Farm is a small CSA farm that grows vegetables, fruits, and herbs on less than two acres. We hold the principles of Biodynamic agriculture in highest regard, as we did at our former farm, Galactic Organics. With the help of sheep, honeybees, chickens, and goats, we're striving to create a healthy, self-contained farming system. Find our produce at the Saturday Bellingham Farmers' Market, Local Food Exchange, the Swan Cafe, and through our CSA program, running from June til October. We grow salad greens, garlic, shallots, potatoes, beets, tomatoes, and much more! Call about Biodynamic events or to hear what's in season.
CONTACT: Mike Long 360-303-6095 alpenhornfarm.com
"A family farm aiming to produce the highest quality nutrition possible, for the support of life!" - Sara Hare and Jon Gergen, Owners
Jordan Creek Farm is located in Ferndale, WA and focuses on producing "deep-organic" vegetables, fruits, berries and herbs. We are currently farming 2 acres of gardens which are fertilized with manure and compost from the farm and its various animals. We also raise an assortment of heritage breed livestock and poultry, and gather pasture raised eggs daily. Visit our farm stand near the corner of Slater & Elder roads.
CONTACT: sarahhare@msn.com
“We are stewards of the land, temporarily finding our place in this world through carefully tending the soil, the grasses and the animals who dwell with us here.”
- Melissa Moeller
Misty Meadows Farm is a small family farm wanting to raise the very best food we can for our own table and for our friends and neighbors. We are certified organic and seek in all ways to treat the land and the animals in ways that are respectful, healthy and sustainable. We raise chickens for meat and eggs, turkeys, ducks, sheep and Christmas trees. Our eggs can be found at Terra Organica and the Bellingham Community Food Co-op and on the menu at Pizazza restaurant.
For more information, see our web site: www.mistymeadowsfarm.com
CONTACT: 360-312-3554 info@mistymeadowsfarm.com
"We farm to help the world be simple and good."
VICTORY GARLIC celebrates garlic for its medicinal, aromatic, visual, and culinary benefits. Growing a wide variety of organic garlic, they plant using earth-friendly farming techniques and harvest their crops by hand. As with Eleanor Roosevelt's 1943 Victory Garden and all flourishing vegetable gardens created throughout the United States, Catherine, Steve and Elissa Carey are making their garden a family adventure. Producing scrumptious garlic and creative garlic-related products for expanding local markets, you might see them peddling their wares in their 1949 Dodge pickup truck.
CONTACT: victorygarlic.com - info@victorygarlic.com
BELLINGHAM URBAN GARDEN SYNDICATE (BUGS)
BUGS is a support coalition of urban agriculturalists in the greater Bellingham area. Our mission is to promote, sustain, and advocate for urban agriculture in Bellingham through education, garden support, community action, and making local healthy food accessible
CONTACT: bellinghamurbangardens.org
Our mission is to promote food biodiversity through the production of rare breed livestock and heirloom vegetables. Most of the food that we raise has an important history and use to be popular with farmers many years ago. Unfortunately, the traits that worked for commercial farms are not well suited to small farmers who shun commercial practices. These rare breeds of livestock have valuable traits and we wanted to highlight the benefits of these breeds. The same issue applies to vegetables, the commercialization of fruits and vegetables has made the variety of foods very limited. There are hundreds of varieties of tomatoes, squash, potatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, etc., most of which are not widely available to local consumers. Our passion is bringing these foods back and allow people to experience food the way it was meant to be.
CONTACT: (360) 441-9903
www.heritagelanefarm.netwww.heritagelanefarm.blogspot.com
Mentor Farms
CEDARVILLE FARM
“If we can help create a more viable agricultural economy in Whatcom County, that might contribute in some small way... to keeping a little more farmland in farming. So I think that’s why it’s important. It’s not earthshaking, but it’s just one small way a community can help itself.”
Mike Finger, Owner
CEDARVILLE FARM is Whatcom County’s oldest and largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, providing over 115 families each season with a great variety of startlingly fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers, organically grown on fertile soil adjacent to the Nooksack River. Customers can sign up for a share, or find Cedarville’s produce at the Bellingham Farmers Market. “We look forward to putting our delicious and wholesome produce onto your table.”
CONTACT: 3081 Goshen Road Bellingham, WA 98226 360 592-5594 cedarville322@mac.com
“We produce organically grown food with a commitment to the local community, our employees, and the environment.”
Brent Harrison, Co-owner
A five-acre, certified organic farm, THE GROWING GARDEN has been committed to growing organic produce for local stores, restaurants, and the public for over twenty years. The farm offers a wide variety of herbs and vegetables that can be found in local restaurants & retailers and at the Bellingham Farmers Market.
CONTACT: 6063 Medcalf Road Bellingham, WA 98226
CLOUD MOUNTAIN FARM
"A family-owned farm providing plants for Northwest Gardens, fruits, cider, and vegetables in season."
CLOUD MOUNTAIN FARM, established in 1978, is located on 20 picturesque acres of orchards, vineyards and nursery fields at the foot of Sumas Mountain near Everson. The nursery at Cloud Mountain is a favorite among local gardeners seeking quality, locally grown ornamental & fruit plants. In the Fall, locals flock to Cloud Mountain for apples, cider, fruits, vegetables, pumpkins, and plants. Check out the annual Cloud Mountain Fruit Festival in early October to taste over 200 varieties of locally grown fruit and fruit products.
CONTACT: 360 815-4150 cloudmt@telebyte.com 6906 Goodwin Road, Everson, WA 98247
BOXX BERRY FARMS
Our Farm Market offers fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, flowers, sweet corn and other homegrown vegetables, Eastern WA fruit and produce, pumpkins, as well as our own jams, syrups, homemade berry pies and more. Get fresh strawberry shortcake, strawberry sundaes and ice cream cones at the Shortcake Shack. U-pick strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and flowers. Open June-Oct, Mon-Sat 9-6, Sun 10-4.
CONTACT: 360-380-2699 6211 Northwest Rd, Ferndale www.boxxberryfarm.com
