Sep, 16, 2007
FOOD
Harvest heaven: Celebrate the bounty of fall farms
COURTESY
Apples are available by the bushel at several county farms.
Lynden High School FFA Corn Maze
½ mile south of Lynden on Hannegan Road
Open through Sept. 30, weather permitting
Hours: 6-10 p.m. Friday, 2-10 p.m. Saturday, 2-6 p.m. Sunday
Flashlight maze after dark
Cost: $6 grades 7 and older, $4 kindergarten through grade 6, free for ages 4 and younger, $18 family (up to 2 adults and 3 kids), group rates available (1 adult required for every 5 students). Proceeds benefit club projects.
Master Food Preserver and Safety Advisors workshops
Contact: 676-6736, Whatcom@wsu.edu
Learn how to safely preserve the summer bounty of fruits, vegetables, meats and seafood in free classes.
"Basic Canning," 6-8 p.m. Sept. 16, at the Community Food Co-op Connections Building. Please do not park in the parking lot. Call for additional classes to be offered this fall.
Stanwood and Camano Island Harvest Jubilee
Contact: (360) 629-0562, wwwharvestjubilee.org
Hours: 8 a.m. to dusk Sept. 22
Features hay rides, pumpkin patches, exhibits, informational displays, agricultural demonstrations, kid games, storytelling, tastings, music, food and farm product merchants, farm tours and more at several locations throughout the area. Tour maps and activity schedules are available with local merchants and at Web site.
Potato Digging Party and Common Threads Farm Open House
Common Threads Farm, 4050 Sunny Hill Lane, Lummi Island
Note: Passenger-only ferry from the mainland to Lummi Island. Take the 11:10 a.m. ferry. Farm is a 1-mile walk from ferry.
Contact: 927-1590.
Hours: noon-2 p.m. Sept. 22
For kids and families. Digging, cooking, eating, reading stories and making art; all with the potato. Learn more about upcoming cooking and gardening-based educational programming at Common Threads Farm. Potatoes for sale.
Suggested donation $3 per person or $10 per family
Harvest Celebration at Hovander Homestead Park
5299 Nielsen Ave., Ferndale
Contact: 733-2900
Hours: noon-5 p.m. Oct. 6
Features tours of the 102-year-old house, heirloom apple picking, butter churning, zucchini races, pumpkin carving, harvest crafts, scarecrow making, hay bale maze, storytellers and musicians.
Admission: $2 per person, children 5 and younger free
Rome Grange Farmers Market
2821 Mount Baker Highway, about 1/2 mile east of the Y Road.
Contact: Bekki Weston, 671-7862
Hours: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 7
Small farmers with produce, plants or products to sell are welcome to set up a table in the parking lot.
Cloud Mountain Farm & Nursery Fruit Festival
6906 Goodwin Road, Everson
966-5859 or www.cloudmountainfarm.com
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 6 and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 7
Admission: $2.50 per person, $6 per carload
Fruit sampling of apples, European and Asian pears, kiwis, cider, jams and jellies; tasting of wines produced from local grape varieties 1-3 p.m. Sunday (call to register). Mallard ice cream; Bagelry bagels and Pleasant Valley Cheese. Julia’s Pumpkins. Landscape Corner with experts available. Live music. Door prizes.
Skagit Valley Gardens Fall Fiesta
18923 Johnson Road, Mount Vernon
Contact: (360) 424-6760, www.skagitvalleygardens.com
Hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, through Oct. 7
Hay maze, children’s activities, sidewalk chalk contest, biggest zucchini competition, and vote on your favorite SVG employee-made scarecrow.
Free admission.
Bellingham Farmers Market
Harvest Festival, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Oct. 13
Pumpkin carving and scarecrow contests, free crafts for families, pumpkin patch for kids, and great fall flavors including pies, jams and jellies, apples and more.
Lynden Harvest Festival
Oct. 19-20
Schedule of events: 354-5995 or www.lynden.org
Festival includes pumpkin carving, scarecrow decorating, harvest foods and crafts, quilt walk, Project Hope blanket drive, Lynden Pioneer Museum open house and harvest demonstrations, pancake breakfast at the Lynden Community Center. A giant hay maze, pony rides, bounce houses and other children’s activities at Fairway Center. Family-friendly activities at Stoney Ridge Farm and McPhail Berry Farm. Free hay wagon rides between downtown and Fairway Center along Front Street on Oct. 20.
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COMPILED BY LAURA STEIGER
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
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Summer's over, but the bounty of U-pick farms remains. From apples to pears and corn to pumpkins, area farms are bursting with fall's offerings from the good earth. If you go, take a moment to enjoy the rides and corn mazes. When you've worked up an appetite, bite into a piece of pie and chase it with cider.
Here's a list of where to find the fruits of fall harvest in Whatcom County:
Apple Creek Orchard
Address: 5367 Barr Road, Ferndale (From I-5 downtown Ferndale exit, west through Ferndale on Main Street/Mountain View Road, left on Olson Road, right on Douglas Road, left on Barr Road).
Contact: 384-0915.
What's available: U-pick: Jonagold apples. At farmstand: pears, pumpkins, tomatoes.
Note: Picking buckets, carts and boxes provided.
U-pick/farmstand: 10 a.m. to dusk daily, closed for rain, Sept. 21-Nov. 4.
BelleWood Acres
Address: 231 Ten Mile Road, Lynden (Half-way between Bellingham and Lynden).
Contact: 398-9187 or www.bellewoodapples.com.
What's available: Farmstore: 15 varieties of apples, two varieties of pears, honey roasted peanut butter, dehydrated apple chips, fresh cider, gifts and other local farm products. U-pick: pumpkins, sunflowers, squash, and decorative gourds, corn and cornstalks.
Notes: Farm tours always available. Integrated pest management. Certified sustainable farm through Salmon Safe and Food Alliance.
Open: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily, through December.
Bellingham Country Gardens
Address: 2838 Kelly Road (1/2 mile west of Mount Baker Highway, just past Sand Road).
Contact: 592-5987, 223-3724, www.bellinghamcountrygardens.com.
What's available: Pumpkin patch and all veggies. Squashes and corn through the fall. Pesticide free.
U-pick: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Wednesday; school groups by appointment.
Berg Nut Farm
Address: 3236 Massey Road, Everson.
Contact: 966-4479 (2 miles southeast of Everson off Highway 9).
What's available: Filberts, hazelnuts, brown English walnuts. No-spray.
Open: Through November. U-pick or we-pick: 8 a.m. to dusk Monday-Saturday, noon to dusk Sunday.
Boxx Berry Farm
Address: 6211 Northwest Road.
Contact: 380-2699.
What's available: Pumpkins.
Open: daily until Oct. 1, call for hours and October schedule.
Cloud Mountain Farm & Nursery
Address: 6906 Goodwin Road, Everson.
Contact: 966-5859 or www.cloudmountainfarm.com.
Available now: many varieties of apples (not u-pick), Asian pears (not u-pick), u-pick and already picked tomatoes (heirloom and other varieties, sweet Italian basil, sweet and hot peppers.
Available September 26: table grapes and European pears (none of these are u-pick but available at the farmstand).
Available October 6: pumpkins, cider.
Farmstand open now: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
U-pick/we-pick: begins October 6 for pumpkins.
Fruit Festival: Oct. 6-Oct. 7. Details at right.
The Green Barn
Address: 8858 Guide Meridian Road, Lynden.
Contact: 318-8869.
What's available: Squash, pumpkins, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, corn, lettuce and a variety of fruits and vegetables. Case lot produce, certified organics, local produce and dried goods.
Farmstand: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
Hauck's Orchard and Produce
Address: 1920 Harksell Road, Ferndale (One mile north of Grandview Road, west off Enterprise Road).
Contact: 384-5967.
What's available: Farmstand: Asian pears, honeycrisp apples. Certified naturally grown.
Open: most Saturdays, call ahead.
Kibbe Acres, Inc.
Address: 3770 Aldergrove Road, Ferndale (From I-5 take Grandview Road west to North Star Road and turn left, at second stop sign at Aldergrove Road turn right. Farmstand one mile on the right.)
Contact: 366-9925
What's available: Bosc, Bartlett and Comice pears; Jonagold, Akane and Spartan apples; sweet corn.
Self-serve farmstand: 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. daily through mid-October.
Lisa's U-Pick 'em up Hazelnuts
Address: 899 Piper Road, Ferndale (North of Axton Road, between Northwest and Aldrich roads).
Contact: 384-1725.
What's available: Hazelnuts. Organically grown. Bring your own containers. U-pick: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29-Oct. 28; or by appointment.
McPhail Berry Farm
Address: 8318 Bob Hall Road, Lynden.
Contact: 354-5936.
Available now: raspberries, blackberries, some blueberries.
Available Oct. 1: pumpkins, fresh sweet corn, gourds, frozen berries, fresh pies baked daily in the berry kitchen.
Notes: Hay rides, train rides, corn maze, petting zoo, cornstalks, make your own scarecrow. Call to schedule weekday group farm tours.
U-pick/Farmstand: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, through October.
North Whatcom County Young Life Pumpkin Patch
Address: 1138 Central Road, Everson (just east of Hannegan Road).
Contact: 354-4807.
What's available: Pumpkins, spray-free.
U-pick/farmstand: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday; in October.
Sm'Apples, Inc.
Address: 1197 Willeys Lake Road, Ferndale (Follow signs to the orchard northeast of Ferndale and southwest of Lynden. From Bellingham: North on I-5, east at Grandview Road, north on Enterprise Road, east on Willeys Lake Road. From Lynden: West on Birch Bay-Lynden Road, south on Rathbone, west on Willeys Lake Road.)
Contact: 318-1776
What's available: U-pick: Gala and Jonagold apples.
Note: Minimal sprays used to control pests and fungi. Cider press available on-site in late October.
Open: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8-Nov. 10.
Stoney Ridge Farm
Address: 2092 Van Dyk Road, Everson (From Guide Meridian turn east onto Pole Road, after about 6 miles turn left onto Van Dyk Road, farm is directly across from the Everson Livestock Barn).
Contact: 966-3919.
Farmstand or u-pick: Three varieties of apples, pumpkin patch, squash, gourds, corn. Fall decorations, cider, crafts, 4-acre corn maze, apple bin maze, hayrides, farm animals, pie shop, bon fire and hot dog stand. Uses integrated pest management.
Open: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday-Saturday in October; tours by appointment.
Admission on Saturday: $2.50 per person or $8 per family
Storybook Acres
Address: 6155 Everson-Goshen Road, Everson (On the northwest corner of Everson-Goshen and Hemmi roads. Travel north on Everson-Goshen Road from Mount Baker Highway or take Smith Road east from Guide Meridian and turn left at 4-way stop at Smith and Everson-Goshen. From north, turn south onto Everson-Goshen Road from E. Pole Road.
Contact: 441-5065
What's available: U-pick Pumpkins and farm stand sales, including sugar pumpkins for baking. Organic farming methods but not yet certified.
Open: 10 a.m. to dusk, Saturdays and Sundays in October.
