the farmer's wife

Christmas is coming....

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:18:00 +0000

Sauvie Island Farms will open on Friday, November 25th for Choose and Cut Christmas trees!We have many trees to choose from, Douglas, Grand and Noble Fir. We will be open Monday-Saturday 10-5pm, closed on Sundays, until December 21st.

This time of year, we welcome your dogs on the farm, remember to keep your pet on lease at all times, and please clean up as needed...! Saturday, November 26th, Santa will be visiting from 12pm-3pm. Bring your camera and have a family photo taken with Santa. We have hot drinks and cookies, as well as a free treat for each dog!

Go to our website http://www.sauvieislandfarms.com/ and click on the COUPON link...it's a good one!!

The recipe

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:44:00 +0000

The is the recipe that I made for the college kids. I am told that they were great....
so thought I should share. They are very rich, so cut into small-ish serving sizes.
I did NOT add the walnuts or nutmeg, as much as I do not like pumpkin, the farmer
equally does not like walnuts....or nutmeg.

Ooey Gooey Caramel Pumpkin Blondies with Chocolate and WalnutPrep Time 20 Minutes
Cook Time 25 Minutes
Servings 16Ingredients
• FOR THE BLONDIES:
• ¾ cups Butter, Softened
• 1 cup Packed Brown Sugar
• 2 whole Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Pumpkin Puree
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• ½ teaspoons Nutmeg
• 1-¾ cup All-purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ¼ teaspoons Salt
• FOR THE FILLING:
• ½ cups Chopped Walnuts
• ¼ cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
• 14 ounces, weight Caramels, Unwrapped (1 Bag)
• ¼ cups Heavy Cream
Preparation Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9×13 pan with non stick cooking spray and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in eggs, vanilla and pumpkin until combined. Slowly incorporate the remaining ‘blondies’ ingredients into the batter. Scrape sides of bowl and mix again briefly to ensure a smooth batter. Spread about 2/3 of the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
For the filling: Sprinkle nuts and chocolate chips over top of the batter.
Place caramels and cream into a heat-proof bowl. Microwave on high until caramel is smooth and completely melted, being sure to stir every 20 seconds. Stop as soon as it’s melted and smooth.
Pour melted caramel over chocolate and nuts. Spread around evenly with a butter knife or spoon. Place dollops of the remaining batter over the top of the caramel layer. Spread those dollops out to try and get a smooth layer of batter over top. (It’s fine if some of the caramel layer is peeking through.)
Bake for 25 minutes or until edges are golden and a toothpick comes out clean when inserted. (It might come out with a little caramel on it which is fine. You don’t want batter on the toothpick.)
Cool completely before serving. Or be prepared to get a whole lot of oozing caramel if you serve it warm.
Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
We are now closed until the day after Thanksgiving for Cut Your Own Christmas Trees!!

How I really feel about pumpkins.....

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:36:00 +0000

This post is all about the confessions of the farmer's wife....me.

We grow pumpkins, I do NOT like pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin milkshakes or those pumpkin spice lattes that people drink in October. I really do NOT eat pumpkin. I am not sure I even like the color orange.....ouch. Ok I said it. I do like fall, and I do like the idea of harvest, and all that goes with it. My family, however, does like pumpkin pie, cookies and bread.....so for all these years, my sister-in-law, Cindy has made all the pumpkin pies for family dinners....aka Thanksgiving. She has also made loaves of pumpkin bread and sent them to my college boys. So....what is the point here?
I am hosting a dinner tomorrow night for our son's birthday with numerous college kids. I wanted to make a new recipe that I found, a pumpkin caramel blondie, for dessert....so I went to Safeway to BUY a can of pumpkin. OK...I KNOW. I have probably lost the respect of all of you by now. It was just going to be easier, I am busy this month! Guess what? There was NO pumpkin in the can on the shelf in Safeway. The nice lady that works there told me that as soon as they get it in the store it flies off the shelves....figure of speech, I think. See, people have the same idea I do. So what's a girl going to do? Huh? Oh...right, I have THOUSANDS of pumpkins sitting in the fields behind my house. So home I came, talked to Cindy, learned that the Cinderella pumpkins mixed with a Buttercup squash make a good textured pumpkin filling. I picked out one of each and home I came to bake the pumpkin and the squash. It's easy. Cut those suckers in half, take out the seeds, put them flesh side down in a baking pan with a small amount of water, and cook for less than a hour at 350 degrees. After they cool, scoop the fleshing part into your blender or food processor and blend away, until it looks all creamy and smooth. Cindy puts her pumpkin in freezer bags to save for the holiday pie making. I got 10 cups of blended pumpkin from a small Cinderella and the squash. I haven't made the dessert yet, so I don't know if is good or not. The farmer tells me that it is always a bad idea to try something new on company. But I figure that they are hungry college kids, so they will eat anything. I will share the recipe with you next week, if it turns ok. And just so you know, we DO have lots of pumpkins left here on the farm. We are open on Saturday, Oct 29, closed Sunday, and our last day will be Monday, October 31. If you want to try making your own pumpkin filling, there's still time to come out and get a couple of pumpkins. We also still have cabbage, sweet corn, apples, squash, and of course lots of pumpkin. Our flowers were hit with the frost earlier this week, there are a few sunflowers that survived and are still blooming!

No Pumpkin Shortage

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:50:00 +0000

There is no shortage of PUMPKINS at Sauvie Island Farms this year.
We have beautiful pumpkins in all sizes and shapes sitting right in the field
where they grew, waiting to be picked!
The largest pumpkin we have seen come out of the field this
year was picked by Micah and weighed 73 lbs.
All pumpkins over 26 lbs are just $8!
There must be one larger than Micah's....come out and
search for it!
We are open Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm thru October.

October

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:39:00 +0000

There is so much to do at Sauvie Island Farms this October.....

Climb the straw pyramid

Go on a hayride

Pick a pumpkin from our huge field

Cut a bouquet of beautiful flowers

Play in our straw mazes

Visit our farmyard animals

Enjoy a walk on the farm

We are open Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm in October!

More than Pumpkins

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:00:00 +0000

Sauvie Island Farms does have a field of beautiful pumpkins ready for you to come out and pick your own! We also have Chester blackberries, a few strawberries, sweet corn, peppers, six varieties of squash, and APPLES for you to pick on the farm this week. Our apples are excellent this year. We have Rome Beauty, which are a great cooking apple and a few trees of Red Delicious. Our Romes make great applesauce, apple butter, apple pies, apple juice, etc! They are only $1.00 per lb, if you pick over 10 lbs the price drops to 75 cents per lb.

Here's a great Apple Crisp recipe:

4-6 large apples

8 graham crackers

3/4 C brown sugar, packed

1/2 C rolled oats

1/2 C flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 C butter, melted

Peel, core, slice apples. Finely chop graham crackers (use a food processor). Combine crumbs, sugar, oats, flour and spices. Add butter; mix well. Spoon mixture over apple slices.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes

Serve warm with ice cream

This recipe is from Leigh Anne's blog, she also has an Apple Cake recipe posted and a caramel sauce that I made last fall....which the farmer loved!! Go visit her at http://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/

October 2011

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:12:00 +0000

Sauvie Island Farms will be open this year for PUMPKINS!! As some of you may know, we were closed last year, due to needing all the orange pumpkins that we had to fill our wholesale orders. This year, we have a beautiful huge field of nice orange pumpkins waiting to be picked and we are excited to have the farm open again for October! We enjoy watching the kids..and adults get excited about finding their perfect pumpkin to take home with them! For the fall harvest, we change things up a little and have an area for the kids to play, with a straw bale pyramid, straw maze, tractor tires and a hayride out into the pumpkin fields.

You can visit our farmyard animals and see our new turkeys, duck, and chickens, as well as our cow, Barbie and Mossimo, the llama. There are still a few other crops left for you to pick-Chester blackberries, sweet corn, peppers, edamame, Rome apples, six varieties of squash, gourds, as well as over 30 acres of pumpkins...orange, white & cinderallas. For your fall decorating, we have straw bales, corn stalks, Indian corn, gourds, and beautiful dahlias, sunflowers and more!

We will be open in October, Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm...closed Sundays, beginning Friday, Sept 30th. Hope to see you on the farm this October!

It's raining...and green tomatoes

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:58:00 +0000

It's Saturday morning. Usually I don't find the time to post anything on a saturday morning, but today is an exception. It's raining and I just had a phone conversation with a sweet lady asking about tomatoes and peppers for salsa making. We do have some nice peppers, ready to be picked on the farm today. However, the tomatoes are green, green, green. Anytime there was a slightly orange tomato on the vine in the past couple of weeks, its was picked off quickly! I don't know if our green tomatoes will ripen this year, the night temperatures are dropping quickly. So how about a green tomato recipe? This was a post on the blog from last September. It's weird because I could have written the same exact words this morning:

Tomatoes???

This has been a challenging year on the farm, due mostly to the random weather changes. Many of the crops were planted later than usual, and are being harvested later than usual. On the farm right now, we have a great planting of green tomatoes. We keep watching them, hoping that they will start to turn red. Since it gets so cold at night, we really don't know if they will ever ripen. There are plenty of green tomatoes to be picked, so if you have any good recipes for green tomatoes, this is the year to use them!! One of our long time employees, Sherri, wants to share one of her favorite recipes with us today. She says that this a favorite of her husband. He puts it on everything. Really?...everything?...well, you get the picture. It's a good relish recipe! So if you want to try something new, and you are looking for an easy canning project this cool, rainy weekend, come out, pick some green tomatoes and give it a try. Then let us know if you like it!!

Green Tomato Relish:

1 peck of green tomatoes. (a peck is is equal to a 5 gallon bucket)

3 green peppers

3 red peppers

8 lg onions

Grind with food processor. Add 1/2 cup salt. Let stand overnight.

Next day: Put in cloth bag (or colander with tiny holes) Drain juice. Place in pan and add 1 small bottle of horseradish, 2 T turmeric, one full can of whole spices (put in cloth and tie with rubber band), 6 cups sugar and 3 cups vinegar. Boil for 1 hour. (remove the spice bundle) Put in jars & seal while hot.

Makes approx. 20 cups of relish.

Let us know if you try this recipe and like it! And if you have a great green tomato recipe that you would like to share, we would love to know about it!

oh...and fyi....we are open today, saturday from 9am-6pm. After today, we will be closed until Friday, September 30th, getting ready for pumpkin harvest! Our October hours will be Monday-Saturday, 9am-6pm. More info coming soon about the pumpkins, squash, sweet corn, flowers, gourds...and all that we will have available this October 2011. There might be red tomatoes by then, I'll let you know.

September....

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:35:00 +0000

Sauvie Island Farms Pick Your Own fields will be closed Monday-Thursday of this week. OPEN again on Friday and Saturday, September 16& 17. We are waiting for the end of the Veteran and Elberta Peaches to ripen. We should have Chester blackberries, Bartlett Pears, Sweet Corn, a few veggies and flowers ready to pick by the end of the week. Call our farm line 503-621-3988 for more info. Thanks.

Peaches

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:05:00 +0000

We will open the orchard for the last time this year to finish picking Veteran and Elberta peaches on Saturday, September 10th. The peaches may not last the entire day, so come early if you are wanting a tree ripened peach before the season is over. We also have Chester blackberries, several kinds of sweet corn, Bartlett pears, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, and of course beautiful colorful flowers, waiting to be harvested. It's been a hot week on the farm...so much for my whining about fall coming early...... I am enjoying the weather this week, but some of our crops are feeling the heat, so it would be great to get them picked out of the fields and on to your tables. Our 'summer' crops are coming to an end, but did I hear that there are strawberries coming on again in the back of the farm? I will let you know if they ripen and when you can pick some:)!

Sweet Corn

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Rain makes corn...and we have had a lot of rain this year...finally we have Sweet Corn ready to be picked! It's been a longer than usual wait for the corn to ripen and now that it is ripe, we have lots to be picked. The farmer planted our favorite varieties as well as a few new ones to sample. Bodacious, Honey Select and Spring Treat are all sweet yellow corn. We also have two varieties of bi-color ready for you to pick on the farm.
(There is a coupon on our website for corn this week!!)

The Chester Blackberries are loaded with sweet berries, the thornless bushes make this berry so easy to pick. Blueberries are coming to an end, and there are just a few raspberries hanging on the vines.

Broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, cabbage are easy picking also! Our flowers continue to bloom with burst of bright colors!

Peaches

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:06:00 +0000

Monday, August 22, we will open the orchard for Hale-Haven peaches at Sauvie Island Farms.
There are tree ripen peaches ready to be picked, and others that still need to stay on the trees to ripen more, please be selective when picking these peaches. It is hard to predict how quickly the ripe ones will get picked off, you can call our farm line 503-621-3988 for current field conditions. The Rosas should be ready one day this week also, keep looking for an update about when we can open the orchard for this variety. The Sweet Corn will begin this week also, thanks to the warmer temperatures we are having!

thoughts....about the farm, peaches, the weather...life

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:33:00 +0000

Thursday at Sauvie Island Farms.....just sitting here trying to sort thru my thoughts and decide what to post on the blog this morning. The main purpose of the blog is to get information to all interested about what is ripe and ready to pick on the farm, however, a few times I have gone in a different direction. The first time I posted a personal thought was when our daughter left for college in the fall of 2007. In the next couple of days our youngest son will be leaving for college resulting in an 'empty nest' for the farmer and myself. This looming event is perhaps one of the reasons for my scrambled thoughts this morning. I started thinking about seasons this morning when I saw all the fallen leaves in our front lawn and felt the cool morning air. Is it fall already? Did we have a summer? I think the sweet corn and peaches are wondering the same thing. I have always enjoyed the different seasons especially on the farm. There is always something beautiful and refreshing about each one. The stark beauty of the trees and empty fields in the winter, the fresh smells and tiny spots of green as new growth sprouts in the spring, the warmth of the summer sun with new tastes as each variety of berry ripens, and then the cool, calm of fall as the orange pumpkins sit in the field waiting to be harvested. This year, it feels different, the weather hasn't been 'normal'. Maybe I feel different because of the change of season in my family life, something just doesn't feel right. It's getting cool at night and fall is coming too quickly this year. We haven't had ripe sweet corn on the farm yet, we are still waiting for peaches to ripen..and is it really time for school to start?

Life is full of change & life is not fair....two things I have tried to teach my kids.....so taking a lesson from that, it's time to move on. NO, we do not have ripe peaches or sweet corn on the farm right now...but we DO have beautiful blueberries, chester blackberries, green beans, pickling cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, summer squash, slicing & lemon cucumbers, peas,....yes, peas in August....peppers, cabbage, and beautiful flowers. Hopefully next week we can open the orchard for Rosa and Hale Haven peaches and the sweet corn will be mature enough to pick. Just as each season on the farm has its own beauty, so shall this time in our life.....

Monday update at Sauvie Island Farms

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:13:00 +0000

Today, we still have tree-ripened RED HAVEN PEACHES. Check our phone message for the most current orchard conditions. 503-621-3988. This variety will be gone sometime this week. Up next are the ROSA peaches...maybe by the end of the week. Raspberries season is over, but there are still plenty of blueberries and chester blackberries this week. Also, a new field of young, tender green beans and a new patch of pickling cucumber are ready to harvest this week. Peas, zucchini, summer squash, lettuce, cabbage, slicing and lemon cucumbers, and a few peppers are ready! The sweet corn is still a week away.

Beautiful flowers and herbs are waiting to be cut! It's going to be a great harvest week at Sauvie Island Farms. Hope to see you on the farm.

RED HAVEN PEACHES

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:12:00 +0000

Red Haven Peaches

are ready to be picked at Sauvie Island Farms.

The orchard will open on Thursday, August 11. The crop is smaller this year, due to weather issues, so these won't last long. We usually pick Red Havens for about 10 days, this year we are predicting 5 days or less. The Red Havens are a favorite for freezing, canning and fresh eating. Pick your own tree ripened peaches are just $1.50 per lb. If you pick over 15 lbs the price drops to $1.25 per lb. and over 50 lbs the price is $1.00 per lb.

Raspberries are still available on the farm. Our Tulameens are done for the season, but we still have some great Coho and Saanich raspberries. The Blue Crop blueberries are plentiful, and so easy to pick. It's difficult to find marions at this time, but you are welcome to hunt around for them. And the Chester Blackberries are just getting started. Pick your own berries are $1.75/lb.

Veggies for you to pick: pickling cucumbers, green beans, pole beans, zucchini, summer squash, lettuce, cabbage, slicing cukes, lemon cucumbers, broccoli and a few peppers.

Flowers are blooming all over our u-cut flower garden! It's a great time to come out to Sauvie Island Farms. Hope to see you soon!!

Strawberries in the news......and new policy at Sauvie Island Farms

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:38:00 +0000

A recent news story has brought strawberries back into the news, even though our 2011 harvest is over.
As many of you may have heard, the e coli outbreak from strawberries is isolated to just one farm in Newberg, Oregon. If you froze berries from Sauvie Island Farms, there is no reason to throw them out.
The news of this outbreak has caused us to evaluate our field conditions and the activities that we allow on our farm. Unfortunately the conclusion we came to will be disappointing to many of you. We have made the decision to no longer allow dogs in the u-pick area or on the farm. We want to provide all of our customers with the safest and highest qualitity of fruits and veggies, and since this is a factor that we can not control, we have had to make this decision. We are hoping that in light of the recent event at the other farm in Oregon, you will understand why we are doing this. We know that it might take awhile for the word to get out to all our customers, so we will be patient as we hope you will be as we implement this new policy on the farm.

PEACH UPDATE for Sauvie Island Farms

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:43:00 +0000

Our Early Red Haven Peaches are completely gone...thanks to all of you who came out in the past two days to pick. We didn't have a large crop of this variety and had hoped there would be peaches to be picked thru saturday, but unfortunately they are all gone. Our next peach to ripen is the RED HAVEN, and they are still too firm to pick. The sugar level and peach flavor comes out in the last few days of ripening, and if the peach is picked too 'green', it is not as sweet and flavorful, so we want to wait to open the orchard for the Red Havens. It should be toward the end of next week before we have nice tree ripened peaches available for you to pick on the farm. Thanks for understanding!

Our raspberries are coming to the end of the season also, so the next few days would be the best time to get raspberries for this year. The Blue Crop blueberries are excellent right now...lots to be picked. We also have green beans, pickling cukes, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, peas, zucchini and flowers. Our Chester blackberries and sweet corn should be ripe and ready to pick in about two weeks.

2011 Peach Crop

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:33:00 +0000

The Early Red Haven Peaches are ready to be picked! We are opening up the orchard on Wednesday, August 3rd.
Our peach crop looks great this year inspite of the weather issues we had earlier in the year. As usual there were many nights of watching the temperature to see if it was going to drop below freezing,..the lowest temps are usually between 2-4am.... and if it looks like it is going below 32 degrees, out of bed hopped the farmer to go out and turn on our mist irrigation-'frost prevention'. A light coating of water surrounding the buds and small fruit insulates them so that they do not freeze. For the most part, it appears to have worked and we will have beautiful tree ripened peaches again this year!
The Early Red Havens are our first variety of the six that we have in our orchard, so we should have peaches for the next several weeks. Red Havens will be riping next, then Rosa, Hale-Haven, Veteran, and Elberta. We are always looking for new interesting recipes, so if you have a great peach recipe to share, email it to us at sauvieislandfarms@gmail.com and we will post it here on the blog!

Green Beans and Pickling Cukes ready to pick at Sauvie Island Farms

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:41:00 +0000

The first of our green beans and pickling cukes are ready now for you to pick at Sauvie Island Farms. The beans are young and tender, the cukes are small size. Both are only $1.00 per lb for u-pick. Raspberries and blueberries are plentiful and easy to pick. Just a few marions have started to ripen. Dahlias are blooming. The peaches are still about a week away from being ripe. Hope to see you soon on the farm enjoying the sunshine!

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:29:00 +0000

Blueberry Buckle Muffins {Re dux}

I posted this recipe here in July 2009....and just thought it was time to bring attention back to it. Blueberries are in season and plentiful!! And this is the best blueberry muffin recipe I have come across. If you didn't try it two years ago, you really should try it this year! Its really that good!

Blueberry Buckle Muffins
1/2 cup butter, divided
1 cup sugar, divided
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup flour, divided
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 cups blueberries
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
In bowl, cream 1/4 cup soften butter and 3/4 cup sugar. Add eggs & vanilla, mix well. Combine 2 cups flour, baking powder & salt: add to eggs alternating with buttermilk. Mix well. Toss berries in 1/4 cup flour: fold into batter. Pour into muffin cups. For topping, combine 1/4 cup flour, brown sugar, 1/4 cup sugar, cinnamon & 1/4 cup cold butter until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over batter. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes. 12 servings

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Raspberries and Blueberries at Sauvie Island FarmsBoth of these berries are easy to pick and the bushes are loaded with sweet fruit.

Raspberries and Blueberries are $1.75 per lb u-pick.

Already picked are $24/flat, $13/half flat and $2.50/pint.

We are starting the u-pick cherries on Friday for $2 per lb.

There are a few veggies ready for you to harvest...cabbage, lettuce, spinach & small zucchini.

Come out to the farm and ride the tractor pulled wagon out to the berry fields!

Berries on the farm

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Sauvie Island Farms...Blueberries

We have started picking the Early Blues this week. It looks like a great crop of blueberries this year. Not all are ripe, so be selective when picking! The blues and raspberries are $1.75 per lb.
Sauvie Island Farms... Raspberries

It's the beginning of the season for raspberries. There are a few ripe berries ready to be picked and a lot that will be ripe in a week or so. If you want a taste of raspberry and are willing to look for only the ripest, you can find some nice sweet fruit. Hint: lift up the vines and look inside for the ripe ones, if the berry is pulling away from the core as in the close up picture above, it is ready to be picked. If you have to pull on a raspberry to get it off the vine, it is not ready.:) With each sunny day, more and more of these berries will ripen.

A few veggies are also ready this week....cabbage, spinach and lettuce.
The shasta daisies are blooming & a few dahlias.

It's the end of the season from strawberries. We have some sweet, but small berries in the Hood patch, if you want to hunt around for them!

This week on the farm

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:29:00 +0000

STRAWBERRIES !

Sauvie Island Farms has an abundance of strawberries for you to pick. The Hood, Honeoye, and Shuksan fields are loaded with beautiful, sweet and easy to pick strawberries. There couldn't be a better time to come out and pick some Oregon grown strawberries. Pick Your Own strawberries are just $1.50 per lb.

Our peonies are blooming and ready to be cut also! The peonies won't last much longer, so if you are looking for some early season fresh cut flowers....NOW is the time to get these beauties.

We have had a cool wet year so far, but our berries are loving this weather. The raspberries are still over a week away from being ripe and the blueberries will come quickly after that. The vines are loaded with berries, so once they start to ripen we will have an abundance of these also!

Help us spread the word that there are excellent strawberries to be picked at SAUVIE ISLAND FARMS.

Sauvie Island Farms 2011

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:30:00 +0000

Sauvie Island Farms is looking forward to some warmer weather and opening the season with PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES

Opening day for the strawberry season will be Wednesday, June 15

Our farm hours are 8am - 7pm Monday-Saturday

Most of our crops will be 2 weeks later than usual this year

The peonies are just starting to open up

Lupine is blooming

We are planting a variety of veggies for you to pick this season.
Hope to see you soon on the farm!

Sauvie Island Farms Christmas Trees

noreply@blogger.com (sauvie island farms) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:21:00 +0000

Santa is coming to Sauvie Island Farms

Saturday, December 11th from 11am- 2pm.
Come out to the farm, choose and cut your own christmas tree from over 10 acres of Douglas, Grand and Noble fir trees.

Warm up by the fire with a cookie and some hot chocolate!
Start your holiday tradition at Sauvie Island Farms!