Free, self-guided tour kicks off Clallam County Farm Week

By Sequim Gazette Staff • September 25, 2019 1:30 am
Cows are moved to a barn at Dungeness Valley Creamery during Clallam County Family Farm Day in 2017. Photo by Amy McIntyre
Cows are moved to a barn at Dungeness Valley Creamery during Clallam County Family Farm Day in 2017. Photo by Amy McIntyre

Clallam County Farm Week kicks off with the 23rd annual self-guided Clallam County Farm Tour, set for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, at eight locations.

Tour stops include Agnew Grocery and Feed, Dungeness Valley Creamery, Finn Hall Farm, Five Acre School, Jardin du Soleil Lavender, Lazy J Tree Farm, Nash’s Organic Produce and the Clallam County Master Gardeners’ Woodcock Demonstration Garden.

The Farm Tour has events and activities for people of every age including a plant clinic, hayrides, animals, displays, learning opportunities, demonstrations and hands-on art and food creations, food and drink sales, plant sale, a scavenger hunt, maze and more.

Carpooling, bicycling, and public transportation are strongly encouraged to keep parking and the event’s carbon footprint to a minimum. Pets are not allowed on the farms and should be left at home.

Visit WSU Clallam County Extension’s Farm Week webpage (extension.wsu.edu/clallam/2019/09/master-gardener-2019-farm-tour-events) or Facebook page for a map and all the details.

The tour is free, thanks to the generosity of the hosts and sponsors: Sound Community Bank, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Coastal Farm & Ranch, and Country Aire Natural Foods Market.

And more

Clallam County Farm Week continues from Sept. 29-Oct. 5 with a celebration of local agriculture-related businesses like small farms, restaurants and value-added producers with farm walks, farm-to-table meals, farmers markets, local food sales and talks.

The week’s highlights include Walk the Wild Edge, a bicycle ride to Wild Edge Farm for a tour, harvest and free community-prepared meal on Monday, Sept. 30; a farm walk and farm-to-table dinner co-hosted by Chi’s Farm and Bent Gate Farms that benefits 4-H youth, Sept. 29 (cost: $45), and a free presentation by WSU Clallam County Extension Director Clea Rome on Clallam agriculture, past, present and future at the Port Angeles Library on Thursday, Oct. 3.

Tickets to the two on-farm events are available on Brown Paper Tickets and are limited to 15 and 20 people, respectively; see wildedgefarm.bpt.me and clallam farmweek.bpt.me.

Also during Farm Week, Country Aire Natural Foods is having sales on locally sourced products, Nash’s Farm Store is offering sales and events and Martha Lane Lavender is hosting daily farm walks.