Fun & Delicious Whatcom County Farm Tour
by Sustainable Connections9/11/2009 4:55:36 PM
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It’s harvest season and Whatcom farms are exploding with abundance. What better way to experience the bounty of our precious farmland than to spend a day tasting local flavors, wandering fields and orchards, practicing your cider pressing skills, and hearing the stories of the hardworking folks who put food on our tables?
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Common Threads Farm The 2nd Annual Whatcom Farm Tour will feature nine unique farms plus the Bellingham Farmers Market, representing a diversity of local agriculture.
Ride a wagon through the fields at Boxx Berry Farm with a berry shortcake in hand, amble through Bellewood Acres’ orchards munching on a caramel apple flower, and swing by Silver Springs Creamery to try your hand at making ice cream! Marvel at curly-horned Navajo-Churro sheep and pet bunnies at Heritage Lane Farms in Lynden, or pull potatoes out of the ground, hug kid-sized animals and play with solar cars at Common Threads Farm on Lummi Island.
Choose your favorite few stops or be ambitious and hit them all! This is a self-guided, free, family-friendly event.
Farms on the tour:
Farms will be open to the public from 10am to 6pm on Saturday, September 12, offering a variety of fun and educational activities. Details about each stop, directions and a tour map will be included in the Bellingham Herald, the Cascadia Weekly the week preceding the tour, and at the Community Food Coop and Sustainable Connections.
The Whatcom Farm Tour is a Sustainable Connections Eat Local EVERY Week event, supported by lead sponsors Organic Valley Family of Farms, People’s Bank, and Lesa Boxx & Jamie Imus of Country Financial, and supporting sponsors Lithtex, Bellingham Farmers Market, and the North Fork Brewery.