Farmer's Market

This year we are pleased to announce that we are selling

Skagit Sun Berries at the following Farmer's Markets.

2010 Farmer's Market Schedule

Tue.     Crossroads    Noon - 6:30   http://www.crossroadsbellevue.com/farmers-market

Thurs.  Queen Anne    3:00 - 7:00   http://qafma.org/

            Snohomish      3:00 - 7:30   http://snohomishmarkets.com/

Sat.      Coupeville      10:00 - 2:00  http://coupevillefarmersmarket.com/

Sun.     Mercer Island 11:00 - 3:00  http://www.mifarmersmarket.org/welcome

Buy direct and support your local farmer!

What's New at Skagit Sun

We've got them all

Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries are now available!

Cupcake Royale, located in Seattle, is using our berries in their creations.

Grand Central Bakery is also purchasing strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries for their many delicacies.  Visit these two venues for some delicious bakery items and know that you are supporting a family farm while you enjoy a pastry or two!

On May 3 we planted 15 acres of new strawberries. By the middle of the second day we had put over 150,000 new plants into the rich Skagit delta soil.

These berries will not be harvested until 2006 and will be harvested for three years thereafter.

We planted five different varieties including an old variety named Hood, a personal favorite. The Hood is not an exceptionaly large strawberry but it has a very pleasing mellow, sweet quality to it.

A timely rain just a few hours after got the plants off to a good start.


The planters feed the crowns into a wheel that
rotates downward to embed the plants into the soil.

Stepping in the plants that have not sunk in deep
enough and also planting by hand any "skips."

A well planted strawberry row.

The adjacent field of iris at mid day.

The sky began to thicken in the late afternoon. Note
the yellow cabbage field in bloom in the background.

View from the field looking east at dusk. Rain imminent. The thin green line
at the base of the poplars is our raspberry field.