FARM TOUR

Farm tour this weekend!  Enuff said!  Hope to see you at the farm!
(p.s. we will have a small "selection" of goodies at the Bayview and Coupeville markets if you can't make the farm tour!).
Farmer Georgie out....

Farm Tour This Weekend!

The fabulous FREE Whidbey Island Farm Tour is this weekend and we hope to see you all at Willowood Farm of Ebey's Prairie!
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This is the one time a year when we open up Willowood Farm to the public. It is a great way to see what is going on in the fields, check out the biggest barn on Whidbey Island, and tour one of the most beautiful farms in the Pacific Northwest!
We will be offering lots of harvest time bounty for sale including bulk quantities at discount pricing on many storage items as well as many fresh from the fields goodies:
- Potato Bags
- Dry beans
- Winter Squash, Pumkins and decorative gourds for eating and decorating!
- Garlic
- Seed Garlic for planting
- Fava Beans Seed for cover crop planting
- Big selection of cabbages for making fall kraut!
- Fresh greens including lettuce, arugula, radishes, raab, beets, sweet corn and more!
Depending on weather and equipment, we will be holding several farm demonstration activities - bean cleaning and potato digging!
And remember WE WILL NOT be at the Bayview or Coupeville markets this weekend! Michael at WGG will be "holding down the fort" at Bayview with a small selection and Wilbur and Julieanna will be taking their wagon to Coupeville with the Prairie Bottom food but if you want to stock up on the Willowood Farm bounty COME TO THE FARM!

Watch out for flying squash!

Watch out for flying squash! You think I jest? Well, just ask Kevin, Willow or Elizabeth (the farm interns) about the crazy antics of flying winter squash. How, you may ask, does winter squash fly? Well, take one farmer and some clippers, A LOT of winter squash, a relay team of interns to get the squash from the middle of field to the edge of the field and...well things get a little crazy! Those little gourds and mini pumpkins, they aren't so bad, but a 20 lbs Sweet Meat squash flying through the air????? Incoming!!!!!!!
So granted, we will have LOTS of winter squash at the markets this week. Pumpkins, squash, gourds, big ones and little ones in all shapes and colors, warts and all (seriously, we have ones with warts!). These are the beauties to grace your countertop or front porch in all their fall glory and then, you get to eat them too!
Some come on down to the Bayview and Coupeville markets and load up on squash! We will, of course, also have a nice selection of other goodies including -
* Broccoli
* Cauliflower
* Cabbage
* Kohlrabi
* Head Lettuce
* Mesclun Mix
* Onions
* Potatoes (including a few 10 lbs storage bags!)
* Garlic and Seed Garlic
* Dry Beans - Rockwells! And hopefully Black Kabuli Garbanzo beans as well!
* Summer Squash
* Corn
* Sunflower seed heads for drying for seeds for either humans or birds to enjoy!
* Rainbow Chard and lots more I'm probably forgetting...
Also coming from Michael at WGG (to the Bayview market only) - tomatoes, pears, apples, cucumbers and grapes...

On a final note (and to see if you are reading this!), next weekend (Oct. 3 & 4), is the FREE Whidbey Island Farm Tour and Willowood Farm will be open to the public on both days!
http://whidbeyfarmtour.wordpress.com/
Because of the tour WE WILL NOT BE AT THE BAYVIEW MARKET ON OCT. 3RD! You can tour the fields, check out our amazingly awesome HUGE historic barn, giggle at the turkeys and pet the horses. And we will be selling LOADS of great fall-time veggies -potatoes, dry beans, garlic, winter squash, etc., etc., etc...We hope to see you there!