Trust for Working Landscapes

Please join the Trust for Working Landscape for another walking tour of the Day Road farm area. Fall colors, the pumpkins showing, late corn, new projects, grapes ripening - so many beautiful things to see this time of the year. Meet at 2 PM at the Day Road Farm Stand Sunday the 13th. One and one-half hours. Bart Berg 380-5327

Trust for Working Landscapes (TWL) is hosting a farm walk this Sunday, July 12 at 2 pm. This free, approximately 1-1/2 hour tour will wander through several farm properties with spectacular pastoral and mountain views. Come see the largest contiguous working farmland area in Kitsap County! We will provide an overview of various ongoing farm projects and can answer questions about public farmland properties. Tour begins at the Day Road farm stand on the south side of Day Road East. Sturdy shoes are recommended.

Please join us for another farm walk through the Day Road area farms. It should be a lovely summer day with many active crops and who knows, probably a farmer or two. The tour takes 1½ hours starting at 2 PM at the Day Road farm stand.

For more information contact Bart Berg at 206/380-5327.

Trust for Working Landscapes (TWL) is hosting a farm walk this Sunday, March 29th at 2 pm. This free, approximately 1-1/2 hour tour will wander through several farm properties with spectacular pastoral and mountain views. Come see the largest contiguous working farmland area in Kitsap County! We will provide an overview of various ongoing farm projects and can answer questions about public farmland properties. Tour begins at the Day Road farm stand on the south side of Day Road East. Sturdy shoes are recommended.

Work Party — Saturday, February 14th from 10 am - 2 pm (meet at the Day Road Farm Stand)

There will another work party at the Crawford property this weekend. We will continue the great work of the last work party several weeks ago where eight great folks cut down the fast growing alders and maples shading crop land to the north. This work party should finish that task and help make happy farmers by showing we care about the food they grow for us. Those with sharp and ready chainsaws are needed along with those who can assist clearing. We also need to repair the fence on which the trees were leaning and complete the cleaning of the fence line.

Farm Walking Tour — Sunday, February 15 at 2 pm (meet at the Day Road Farm Stand)

Another fabulous walking tour is available on Sunday, to be lead by TWL board member Brian Zimmer. The walk will take from 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Light boots are a good idea. Come see what the farmers are doing and how the crops are faring at this time of year. We often we have farmers along to answer questions. Previous TWL projects will be discussed as we stroll along the beautiful farm land.

When: January 4, 2009 @ 2pm
Where: Day Road Farms farm stand

Bart Berg will be leading another Farm Walk starting at the Day Road Farms farm stand on Sunday, January 4th at 2pm. The walk will cover seven agricultural properties before returning to the meeting point.

Please bring winter clothes and boots.

Contact Bart Berg at bart@bainbridge.net with questions.

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On Sunday, a group of hardy souls set out on a Farm Walk. The walk, about 2.2 miles in total, covered the farms near Day Road including the Morales, M & E and Crawford properties.

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The group met in the cold and fresh snow to learn about the farms, their history and TWL’s involvement in their future. This historic water tower was moved from Winslow and re-constructed for continued enjoyment by all.

The group made it’s way from the water tower toward Akio Suyematsu’s part of the property flanked to the left by Gerard Bentryn’s Bainbridge Island Vineyards vines braving the cold.

Along the way, Betsey Wittick of Laughing Crow Farm, an Ivy League educated farmer, shared her knowledge of the land and farming — in particular as it related to water given the large undertaking of the irrigation system installed in part by the TWL last winter.

Blueberries are a new addition to the famous raspberries grown on the property.

Betsey farms old school with horses.

Look closely and you can see garlic tops peeking through the snow.

Raspberries.

From the Day Road farms the group walked to the M & E tree farm.

The site of Saturday’s farm work party blanketed in snow.

Traipsing through the snow and woods.

The view south looking down on the Morales farm.

Looking north from the Morales property toward the newly planted vines of Mike Lempriere and Perennial Vintners. In the foreground can be seen the stakes for the greenhouse project.

With some work, time and money this could become some quality housing for farming interns.

From Morales we walked back to the farm stand colder, but significantly more knowledgeable, than when we started.