One of the great things about having a farm is meeting other people who desire the same. We are often graced with visitors that have the gleam in their eye, who almost always ask first, “So, did you grow up on a farm, doing all this?” (The short answer is no. For the answer to [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Who, Me?
Posted in farming, tagged becoming a farmer, farm tours, island meadow farm, Sea Breeze Farm, Vashon, Vashon farms, Vashon Island Growers Association, VIGA on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What The Seattle Times Didn’t Tell You
Posted in LA BOUCHERIE, tagged artisan bread, Bill Freese, Bill's Bread, LA BOUCHERIE, Sea Breeze Farm, Tan Vinh, Vashon, Vashon farms on July 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A few of you may have seen a nice little piece in The Seattle Times last week about Vashon Island. Tan Vinh mapped out a food and wine focused itinerary of farm visits, wine tastings, and food & beverage establishments, including the suggestion of dinner at La Boucherie. (Thank you, Tan!!!) He included several places [...]
What’s Your Mouth Talking About?
Posted in eggs, tagged Cafe Claude, farm fresh eggs, Lillet, Sea Breeze Farm on July 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Some flavors change your life. Or, stay with you for life. Weave themselves into your life. I thought about that this week. We bought a bottle of Lillet, the French aperitif that I first sipped when I was twenty-two, living in San Francisco, at the irrepressibly charming Cafe Claude. It was in this hidden gem [...]
What’s in a Name
Posted in cows, farming, the sea breeze farm crew, tagged cows, naming cows, Sea Breeze Farm, Vashon on July 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
We have a baby to name. A new calf, spry and healthy; a female that will eventually have a calf of her own and give countless gallons of milk in the years to come. Born to first-time mama Pearl, who was also born on our farm a few years back, making her baby a third-generation [...]
Claire: The Urban Chicken Experiment
Posted in farming, tagged chickens, Franco Villa Apartments, George Page, noel hastings, Sea Breeze Farm on July 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
When someone asks me, “How did you get into farming?” I usually tell the Claire story. In 1999, George and I lived in an Anhalt townhouse apartment on Queen Anne. After graduating from UW in Physics, George worked as a software engineer for Guidant, a medical device company in Redmond. Admittedly, he was much more [...]
Wedding Season, Part III
Posted in LA BOUCHERIE, tagged Hauenstein, LA BOUCHERIE, Sea Breeze Farm, Vashon, weddings on July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Wedding Season, Part III (The Third and Final Chapter, I promise…) On Sunday, La Boucherie had the privilege of hosting the celebration of Betsy & Duncan, dear Sea Breeze customers and a wonderfully fun couple. 35 of their friends and family plus Napoleon the dog gathered on the deck in the afternoon (after the World [...]
Wedding Season, Part II
Posted in the sea breeze farm crew, tagged farm weddings, matt lawrence, sea breeze on July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Getting married yourself is one thing. Someone entrusting their wedding to you is an entirely different beast. Especially when you’re not exactly in the wedding business. But indeed, our dear friend Matt, who at that time was the Sea Breeze Farm manager and his bride Mary, did just that. We were tremendously honored when Matt [...]
Wedding Season, Part I
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged farm weddings, Sea Breeze Farm on July 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
You have probably been invited to a wedding this summer. Or maybe you’ll participate in one. This coming Sunday will be such an event for us at La Boucherie, which is why I have weddings on the brain. In fact, it will be the third wedding in ten years of profound significance for Sea Breeze [...]
Gotta Have a (Poop) Plan!
Posted in cows, farming, tagged grass based dairy, grass based farming, Livestock Nutrient Management Program, Sea Breeze Farm, WA State Department of Agriculture on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. We can use the official term, a Livestock Nutrient Management Program. Today’s adventure in alternative farming was all about just that. Running a small scale, bio-diverse farm can be challenging in more ways than we can count. One particular challenge is how virtually all regulatory and government entities are geared toward managing and monitoring very [...]
Gaining Perspective
Posted in farmers markets, tagged farmers markets, Sea Breeze Farm on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My cousin and his family reside in the Las Vegas area. Every summer, they make a pilgrimage to Vashon Island over the Fourth of July holiday. And every time we see these guys, we can’t help but interrogate them on the climate in their home state, and marvel at their descriptions of 110 degree normalcy. [...]
