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Food Hub links farms, expands customer sales
Almost on cue, farmer Harley Soltes brought his van of blueberry products to the Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative on Best Road Thursday afternoon. Soltes knows the value of cooperation and made time t...
Bike tour visits three local organic produce farms
In what became a perfect weather day Saturday, 28 people combined the best of the Skagit Valley, riding their bikes to three organic farms that provide produce to the Skagit Valley Food Co-op for the...
Musings - on the editor's mind
April, weather wise, left the western Skagit Valley as it sometimes does: overcast, cool, rain overnight Sunday and dripping into Monday morning. Monday, was in fact perfectly average: the morning temperature started at 50 degrees F at WSU’s Mount V...
Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms this weekend
This lush, alluvial plain we call home, the Skagit Valley, is the site of the 19th Festival of Family Farms this weekend. A dozen farms are participating. Cows, blueberries, shellfish, pumpkins,...
Farm fresh
Young Archie Patino chomps into an ear of corn at Hedlin Family Farm in La Conner during the Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms held over the weekend. – Photo by Don CoyoteYoung Archie Patino chomps into an ear of corn at Hedlin Family...
Farm racers
OK, these farm vehicles aren’t really known for speed. On a hay bale next to a real farm vehicle sat a collection of kid-constructed veggie racers. Racing zucchinis were among the entrants in the speedy vegetable contest at Hedlin’s Farm during the...
Rep. Larsen tours estuary and local farm
Congressman Rick Larsen visited La Conner and Fir Island on Friday, touring Hedlin Farms and the Fir Island Estuary Restoration Project. “I always tell people you can meet in my office for 15 m...
Super Vegie
Faster than a rolling parsnip! More powerful than mashed potatoes! The Turnip Racer was one of the entries in the annual vegie racing contest held at Hedlin’s Family Farm in La Conner as part of t...
Tractor catches fire
It was a hot time at Hedlin Farms in La Conner on Saturday morning, though not by design. A tractor caught afire when flame weeding just east of town went awry. Hedlin’s employee David Rodriguez w...