Many hands make light work!

Organic Farm School is in need of help with weeding, mowing, planting, and then… eating! Please join us for a volunteer work party, followed by lunch from the wood fired oven.

Please RSVP to Judy.

Where Does Your Water Come From? How Long Will It Last?

with Perry Lovelace

Perry will present Sustainability of Whidbey’s water, including the Peak Water prediction model and what you can do about it. We will briefly cover the history of water on Whidbey, its aquifer system, extraction history and current status are explained with stories and examples. Perry’s entertraining presentation will enlighten and challenge you to get active in your own water supply systems.  Come and learn how water connects us all.

Learn more HERE.

Dishing the Dirt is free to attend but donations are encouraged. Please RSVP below.

Join us for a weekly session “out in the kitchen garden.” Each week you will learn by doing - as we transform what started as a strawberry project into a kitchen garden focused on herbs and vegetables.

No experience required. Just curiosity about growing food and a willingness to work toward progress.

Please RSVP using the form below.

Growing Session

Inspired to start a food garden this year? Need advice on how to invigorate poor soil? Want tips on where and how to plant fruit trees or native plants?Want to grow “hot crops” in our moderate climate? Don’t know where to begin?

Join professional gardener, Matt Giroux, at the OFS for lively Q&A sessions as well as hands on learning and practice!

Please RSVP below. Donations encouraged.

Whole Systems Kitchen

An exploration of what it takes to grow, prepare, and benefit from food

Join us every third Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m.

Join Nutritional Therapists, Jenn Goff and Bethany-Lynn Rodriguez to learn about meats, eggs, vegetables, herbs, and more… what it takes to grow them, how long it takes to grow them, how climate change might impact them, how they are harvested, the challenges of processing, tips for storing/preserving them, their nutritional profile and how to prepare them for maximum health benefits and flavor.

Full details and information can be found here.

Fee / Price:

$90/per individual session or $900 for the full 12-month series. Payment plans available upon request.

Additional 20% discount for Friends of the Farm members, and if you are in a place of abundance, you can contribute to a scholarship fund to make the series available to those who ight otherwise not be able to participate.

Overnight lodging is available. Contact us for more information.

Please reserve your spot via the form below! Minimum class size of 6, maximum of 12.

Farm Stewards will return to work at the Keystone Farm & Forest Preserve every Friday. Together, we’ll take on weed management, barn cleaning, orchard planning, planting, and more as OFS prepares for future farm incubators.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in joining us! Keystone Preserve is not open to the public. Volunteers will be provided with directions.

Farm Stewards will return to work at the Keystone Farm & Forest Preserve every Friday. Together, we’ll take on weed management, barn cleaning, orchard planning, planting, and more as OFS prepares for future farm incubators.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in joining us! Keystone Preserve is not open to the public. Volunteers will be provided with directions.

Avian Flu

John Fetrow, retired DVM, will be sharing info about Avian Flu: The actual pathogen/disease.

• Where is it showing up?

• How is it treated and controlled?

• Potential impacts to our food systems?

Dishing the Dirt is free to attend but donations are encouraged. Please RSVP below.

Join us for a weekly session “out in the kitchen garden.” Each week you will learn by doing - as we transform what started as a strawberry project into a kitchen garden focused on herbs and vegetables.

No experience required. Just curiosity about growing food and a willingness to work toward progress.

Please RSVP using the form below.

Farm Stewards will return to work at the Keystone Farm & Forest Preserve every Friday. Together, we’ll take on weed management, barn cleaning, orchard planning, planting, and more as OFS prepares for future farm incubators.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in joining us! Keystone Preserve is not open to the public. Volunteers will be provided directions.

Join us for a weekly session “out in the kitchen garden.” Each week you will learn by doing - as we transform what started as a strawberry project into a kitchen garden focused on herbs and vegetables.

No experience required. Just curiosity about growing food and a willingness to work toward progress.

Please RSVP using the form below.

Farm Stewards will return to work at the Keystone Farm & Forest Preserve every Friday. Together, we’ll take on weed management, barn cleaning, orchard planning, planting, and more as OFS prepares for future farm incubators.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in joining us! Keystone Preserve is not open to the public. Volunteers will be provided directions.

Whole Systems Kitchen

An exploration of what it takes to grow, prepare, and benefit from food

Join us every third Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m.

Join Nutritional Therapists, Jenn Goff and Bethany-Lynn Rodriguez to learn about meats, eggs, vegetables, herbs, and more… what it takes to grow them, how long it takes to grow them, how climate change might impact them, how they are harvested, the challenges of processing, tips for storing/preserving them, their nutritional profile and how to prepare them for maximum health benefits and flavor.

Full details and information can be found here.

$90/per individual session or $900 for the full 12-month series. Payment plans available upon request.

Additional 20% discount for Friends of the Farm members, and if you are in a place of abundance, you can contribute to a scholarship fund to make the series available to those who ight otherwise not be able to participate.

Overnight lodging is available. Contact us for more information.

Please reserve your spot via the form below! Minimum class size of 6, maximum of 12.

Farm Stewards will be back at work at the Keystone Farm & Forest Preserve every Friday. Together, we’ll take on weed management, barn cleaning, orchard planning and planting, and so much more as OFS prepares for future farm incubators.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in joining us!

NRCS and CD Programs for Farms - CANCELLED

Join Robin Buckingham from the National Resource Conservation Service and Kelis Mottet from the Whidbey Island Conservation District about resources available to those engaged in farming and natural resource conservation!

Farm Stewards will be back at work at the Keystone Farm & Forest Preserve every Friday. Together, we’ll take on weed management, barn cleaning, orchard planning and planting, and so much more as OFS prepares for future farm incubators.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in joining us!

Whole Systems Kitchen

An exploration of what it takes to grow, prepare, and benefit from food

Join us every third Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m.

Join Nutritional Therapists, Jenn Goff and Bethany-Lynn Rodriguez to learn about meats, eggs, vegetables, herbs, and more… what it takes to grow them, how long it takes to grow them, how climate change might impact them, how they are harvested, the challenges of processing, tips for storing/preserving them, their nutritional profile and how to prepare them for maximum health benefits and flavor.

Full details and information can be found here.

$90/per individual session or $900 for the full 12-month series. Payment plans available upon request.

Additional 20% discount for Friends of the Farm members, and if you are in a place of abundance, you can contribute to a scholarship fund to make the series available to those who ight otherwise not be able to participate.

Overnight lodging is available. Contact us for more information.

Please reserve your spot! Minimum class size of 6, maximum of 12.

Bountiful goodies from some of our favorite makers and growers on the island; food enough to supply all your holiday meal needs, fire in the wood stove to keep us toasty, festive decorations to bring the holiday cheer, and s’mores fixings the whole fam can enjoy. Come for the food, stay to make new friends! This whole meal market is intended to feed our hearts as much as our bellies. It’s our gift to this community we love so much, in the season of celebrating all that we hold dear.

Vendors:

Mutiny Bay Blues
Glendale Sheperd
Whidbey Island Seafood
Little Red Hen Bakery
Organic Farm School
Lunar Crest Farm
Wilhardt Woods

Friend of the farm, home gardener, Scandinavian epicure and culture buff, Joy Skaardal is hosting a traditional Norwegian cookie class at the Feed and Seed. These ornate cookies made their way to Joy’s childhood table from her Great Aunt and have been passed down her family for generations. Take what you bake! Participants will get to make their own batch of these delicious cookies and take them home in their own festive tin. You’ll also get a copy of the recipes to perhaps start your own holiday tradition! Seasonal beverages provided. Support the Organic Farm School and embrace the holiday spirit with us!

Class limit is 15.

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Details Coming Soon!

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Where Does Your Water Come From?

Part 2 of a 2 part series presented by Perry Lovelace:

Part 2 will address Sustainability of Whidbey’s water, including the Peak Water prediction model and what you can do about it. In Part 1, the history of water on Whidbey, its aquifer system, extraction history and current status was explained with stories and examples. Perry’s entertaining presentation will enlighten and challenge you to get active in your own water supply systems.  Come and learn how water connects us all.

Learn more here and RSVP to Judy here.

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

Students and Staff at the Organic Farm School work hard to propagate, cultivate, harvest, and process nutrient-dense, super fresh, certified organic produce for you! It is by doing the work that skills are honed and critical thinking is sharpened. Further, as you purchase and then eat the food they grow, you offer them feedback. In the most real way, when you purchase food from the OFS, you participate in the training of farmers! 

A community conversation similar to our Dishing talk earlier this season, following the Roots So Deep showing. We’ll discuss the content of the film Food and Country.

RSVP by email Judy, HERE.