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| Two year-old Ellie Ricci enjoys an apple at Bob's Corn in 2005. You can visit Bob’s Corn in Snohomish at a harvest festival this fall. |
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Eat local now; it’s easy
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by Sarah Jackson
Don’t let this harvest season pass you by!
If you’ve been curious about the local food movement going on in Snohomish, Island and King counties, now is the time to get moving.
Area farmers markets are full of incredibly fresh, unbeatable produce right now, including fresh sweet corn, apples, pears, peaches, squashes, cukes, lettuce, tomatoes and more. If that weren’t enough, there’s a whole slew of local harvest festivals coming up, including two this Saturday.
Here’s a list of local farmers markets open now (but not for long), followed by a list of harvest festivals that continue through October.
Country Village Farmers Market: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 5; 23718 Bothell Everett Highway; www.countryvillagebothell.com; 425-483-2250.
Everett Farmers Market: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 30; Everett Marina, 1600 W. Marine View Drive; www.everettfarmersmarket.com; 425-258-3356.
Edmonds Museum Summer Market: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 27; Bell Street, between Fifth and Sixth streets; www.snohomishmarkets.com; 425-774-0900.
Mukilteo Farmers Market: 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 26; Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo; www.mukilteofarmersmarket.org; 425-750-6945.
Snohomish Farmers Market: 3 to 8 p.m. Thursdays through Sept. 27; old Carnegie Library, 105 Cedar St., Snohomish; www.snohomishmarkets.com; 206-412-4630.
South County Farmers Market: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 26; Park Ridge Chapel, 3805 Maltby Road, Bothell; 425-481-8801.
Make plans now to attend a harvest festival!
Harvest Jubilee, 8 a.m. to dusk Sept. 22 in Stanwood, Silvana and Camano Island: This jam-packed one-day festival was revived this year and will feature hay rides, exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, kids games, activities, storytelling, tastings, farm tours, food merchants and booths featuring specialty farm products. Learn about the area’s agricultural history and current practices and hear from experts about food safety, nutrition and food preservation. Visitors will also learn more out more about sustainability, wind and solar energy and gardening tricks too. See www.harvestjubilee.org or call 360-629-0562 for more details.
Harvest Celebration Farm Tour, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in King County: This ninth-annual festival is a great opportunity to experience the diversity and vitality of King County agriculture. Last year, more than 8,000 tour participants talked to farmers and walked their fields, enjoyed family hay rides, ran through corn mazes and ate produce fresh from the field. View or download a tour guide, complete with farm and activity descriptions, maps and chef-demonstration information at this handy link.
Snohomish Festival of Pumpkins, Oct. 1 to 31: Pick the perfect pumpkin, get lost in a corn maze, find fall produce and decorations, enjoy special entertainment and just have a gourd old time at six participating farms in the Everett-Snohomish-Monroe area. See www.festivalofpumpkins.org or 425-388-7170 for details.
Farming Yesterday and Today, Oct. 6 and 7: Farms and related businesses in the Arlington and Marysville areas will open to visitors for tours, tastings, trolley rides and more. See working farms in action, try your skill in a corn maze, traverse along a zip line, pick a pumpkin or enjoy a bouquet of aromatic lavender. You can also watch working dogs herd sheep, taste some freshly roasted coffee by a local roaster or fuel up for the day with special farm breakfasts offered by local restaurants. Visit this link for updates and a downloadable map or call 425-210-6634 with questions.
Whidbey Island Farm Tour, Oct. 5 to 7: Nineteen Whidbey Island farms will open their gates to the public for a second-annual two-day tour of farms, raising everything from roses to race horses and alpacas to wine, mussels and heirloom squash. Some of the farms will offer guided tours and demonstrations as well as boat rides. Tour headquarters will be at Greenbank Farm. Special events include a reception, an art show and a no-host pie buffet on Oct. 5. On Oct. 6, take in a wine-tasting, an art auction, a local-food barbeque dinner and contra dancing. Tour maps, dinner and dance tickets and more information are available at the Greenbank Farm and Whidbey visitor centers and at www.whidbeyfarmtour.com or call 360-240-5558.
Sky Valley Fall Farm Festival, Oct. 13 in Monroe and Oct. 20 in Sultan, Startup and Gold Bar: Visitors to the Monroe festival will learn about salmon conservation and habitat recovery. Families can join in for story time and hear about favorite farmyard animals and visit the new Western Heritage Center and interactive museum at the fairgrounds. In Sultan, a barn dance should guarantee some old-fashioned foot stomping with a display of antique tractors as a suitable backdrop. Visit this link for updates and a downloadable map or call 360-793-1996 with questions.
Even if it's just a few ears of corn, eat up!
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