Updates From the Farm

Welcome to 2021! We’ve taken our break to recover from the hard work done in 2020 and our bodies are waking up to another great growing season. We were able to take our family down to New Mexico to check in on Grandpa in January. He was happy to get…

Greetings! We hope this post finds you and your family well and in good spirits! It seems like everyone has had it with 2020, and here at Hollyhock Farm we are certainly ready to move into the new year and get a fresh start. The farm tasks have been whittled…

Happy Thanksgiving! Winter season offerings: -Frozen summer roasting chicken (whole bird), 3-5lbs. $5/lb -Frozen stew hens. $15 each -Winter eggs from cozy chickens! $5/dozen at the farm. Our farm shop is closed for the winter season, but we have our self-serve egg cooler out on the front porch of the…

The growing season is ending quickly and chasing us indoors! Productivity in the market garden has slowed to a halt, which means it’s time to close up shop. The final Duvall Farmer’s Market happened yesterday afternoon, and Phil and I had a celebratory toast to another great market season at…

September 21, 2020 Wow! Where did the month go!!! I have a few great pictures to share. We had a what felt like a forever smoke blanket over us, and then with a whoosh and an end to our summer drought it was gone…and just like that it was fall!…

We had a little thunderstorm blow through at the end of an extreme heat day here in the Snoqualmie Valley. The lighting after the storm was extraordinary! I attempted to get a good picture of our market garden in the special sunset light, but I don’t think I really captured…

This week I have been working on putting away produce for the winter. My favorite preservation methods right now are fermenting and freezing. I have posted on social media previously about making farm quiches to freeze – this week I was able to put together four for our freezer using…

Summer has finally arrived in the PNW! We are camping in our backyard, learning to swing in our swimsuits, and enjoying the bounty of summer. One of my favorite summertime dishes is calabacitas! It incorporates corn, various varieties of yellow squash and zucchini, tomato, onion, and New Mexico green chile.…

It is one of my favorite challenges to eat seasonally with what is available on the farm and in the valley where we live. There have been some years where I have been very close to eating exclusively this way, without weekly visits to the grocer. The biggest challenge to eating locally…

Things are heating up! This may be our last week for culinary herbs until the second growth in the fall. We are now taking deposits for our July fresh chicken sale! Five dollars per pound. A $10 deposit for reserves your fresh chicken for pickup on Saturday the 25th or Sunday…