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Where fine food begins Dog Mountain Farm serves the Snoqualmie Valley community and Seattle area by providing Certified Naturally Grown farm-fresh vegetables, fruit, eggs, herbs, and flowers.
On the farm We are not a U-pick farm, but we are happy to sell directly to you at the farm. Check our fresh list to see what is available and be sure to call before you make the trip. We welcome visitors to the farm! Buy produce fresh from the garden, enjoy a tour of our vegetable, herb, and flower gardens, the orchard, vineyard, and greenhouse, or just relax amid the beautiful Cascade Mountain view, peace, and quiet. It’s best to call in advance to ensure we are home. 425.333.0833 or 425.417.3947 We use sustainable, organic growing practices—no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or hormones/antibiotics. Our poultry range free in pasture all day long and eat a certified organic feed as well. For more information about the Certified Naturally Grown and Salmon Safe certification programs, please visit their Web sites: http://www.naturallygrown.org/
Restaurants Andaluca, Mayflower Park Hotel, Seattle For those of you that want to learn more, I'm providing this list of my favorite websites, books, and magazines.
Organic Consumers Association
The Omnivore's Dilemma and In
Defense of Food, Michael Pollen
Shelby, the real “dog” in Dog Mountain Farm. This sweetheart of a chocolate lab is overly friendly and always looking for a sucker to rub her tummy. As one of our young visitors recently said, she’s not a dog, she’s an overstuffed sausage. What’s not to love about that?
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Farm News August 10, 2008
Here we are, almost two weeks into August and I’m just getting our site update! Time just flies this time of year on the farm with so many activities! We had two farm dinners in July that amazed and delighted our guests—be sure to check out our journal page for photos and menus. Don’t miss this fun event—make your reservation now for our 2009 season! We’re adding more dates next season and expanding our roster of volunteers for those of you that would like to experience this event from a different perspective. Several of our guests have come back as volunteers to savor the food, wine, and festive atmosphere over and over again.
Our Percheron draft horses, Ike and Zeek, are driving nicely and have made two appearances at the Honey Do Farm Pony Camp in Carnation. They love the attention the campers shower on them! We’ll be offering horse-drawn hay rides for visitors at our farm during the Harvest Celebration Farm Tour September 27th. We’ll also be giving farm tours and have farm produce available for picnicking in the orchard. We need more volunteers to help that day, too. I hope everyone will come to visit!
David completed the expansion of the poultry run and successfully integrated our 150 new chickens with the rest of the flock. I can’t wait for them to start laying to appease our begging egg customers! We also expanded our growing area for next year with 30 truckloads of compost. The driveway and area around the new barn received a coating of new gravel.
Many other projects are in the works, including a run-in shed for the horses in the pasture, an addition to the barn with two stalls for the horses, improvements to the barn for our farm dinners, and solar power for the farm. A new farmhouse, with wonderful entertaining spaces, is in the permitting stage. No, I won’t be quitting my day job any time soon!
In June, 2009, we’ll be opening our B&B Farm Stay with platform tents and a young farmers program for families staying two nights or more. We’ll be spending our “slower” winter months getting this new venture out of incubation and into production! I will keep these pages updated as we have more information available.
We have almost completely turned over our crops with a focus on fall and winter. Many thanks to Ben, one of our CSA members, and his friend, Molly, for volunteering one afternoon to plant new beds of greens. Molly was visiting from Manhattan, NYC. What a great way to entertain out-of-town guests! Our children, Morgan and Matthew, planted flats of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and other fall transplants. The artichokes we planted this spring are promising a nice harvest next month, and the many varieties of pole beans we planted (for the third time!) last month are 8’ tall and climbing, with flower buds starting to form. David harvested nearly 200 pounds of luscious tomatoes in the greenhouse this week. We nearly sold out at the Broadway market today! Seattle has an insatiable appetite—and appreciation—for vine ripened, local, tomatoes. I hope all of you are getting to your local farmers markets and enjoying the fabulous produce you will find this time of year! And if you are looking for a way to connect with other locavores, please consider joining our Slow Food group. We are planning lots of activities to celebrate community on the farm, in the kitchen, and at the table.
Cindy
Our July 12th farm dinner was a fundraiser for Slow Food Snoqualmie Valley. Here, Chef Eric Wright and his family are making pasta for the dinner the night before in the farmhouse kitchen.
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