Fourth of July

Sauvie Island Farms will be open on July 4th from 8am-5pm. We are closing a little early, so our employees can enjoy the evening with their families and friends. Our tractor pulled wagon ride will be running all day to take you back and forth to the RASPBERRIES and BLUEBERRIES. There is no charge for the ride!!
Both of these berries are sweet and ready to be picked. They are just $1.75 per lb. If you pick 10 lbs or more, the price drops to $1.50 per lb. You can get your red and blue from these berries...and if you are looking for white, we have some beautiful shasta daisies blooming right now!! Some of the dahlias have started to bloom and we have lettuce, snow peas, lavender, cilantro and dill also! Hope to see you soon on the farm. Have a great holiday weekend!

RASPBERRIES, BLUEBERRIES & CHERRIES!


Just as the strawberry season is ending, the raspberries, blueberries and cherries ripen up. Beginning Thursday, June 25th, SAUVIE ISLAND FARMS will have these available for you to pick. It looks like it is going to be a 'sweet' season this year. Lots of berries! Our cherry season is usually only a couple of days, we don't have very many trees....so if you are looking for some sweet Bing and Royal Anne cherries....hurry out to the farm. We also have lettuce, peas, lavender, cilantro, shasta daisies..and few other flowers ready for you to pick.

STRAWBERRIES!!

The strawberries at Sauvie Island Farms
are beautiful, sweet and easy to pick. This year we have all first year fields and the first picking in each field is amazing.

Last year, our strawberry fields didn't produce any berries because of the nasty root weevil pest that destroyed all the root of the plants. So we replanted...in a different location.
We have three varieties of strawberries this year. HOOD, SHUKSAN & HONEOYE.
The HOOD variety is an Oregon favorite. The berries are a little smaller in size than other varieties, but the flavor and sweetness is the best!
The SHUKSAN variety is also a great sweet berry, larger in size and firmer.
The HONEOYE is new for us this year. This variety is producing a very larger crop of berries, they are very large and have a longer 'shelf life' than the other varieties!
ALL of our berries are OREGON grown, so they can't be beat! We will have strawberries for you to pick thru the month of JUNE!! Hope to see you soon on the farm.

email updates

Thanks to all of you who have signed up to receive email updates when I add info to Sauvie Island Farms 'Farmers' Wife' blog. I apologize for the duplicate emails that you may have received today...still trying to figure out how to put the words and pictures together on this computer blog thingee. If you are visiting the blog and didn't receive an update by email, you too can join in the fun and can sign up on the right. OK...the "finished my 2nd year of college and just spent 3 weeks in Peru doing medical clincs" daughter is coming home tonight...maybe I can get her to help me with my computer issues...until then, I think I will go back outside and dig in the dirt when I feel more comfortable. I might just pick and eat some ripe strawberries while I am out there!!! see you soon!!

Strawberries are Ripe at Sauvie Island Farms

Sauvie Island Farms will open for

PICK YOUR OWN
STRAW
BERRIES

on Thursday, June 4th.We are open 8 am - 7 pm Monday -Saturday.
Closed on Sundays.
We have new fields of strawberries this year, Hoods, Shuksan and Honeyode. They are all ripening
nicely...and as you know, there is nothing better than an Oregon grown strawberry!! We also have beautiful PEONIES blooming and ready for u-cut! Hope to see you soon on the farm.

what happens on the farm....in the winter and spring

I have been wanting to show you what the farm looks like in the winter and spring...but didn't get anything posted until now. I wasn't sure if anyone really looked at our website or blog during the winter. So...since we are waiting for those strawberries to ripen, I thought I would give you some pictures to look at. If you aren't interested...it's ok. Check back next week for a strawberry update!

Blueberries in the fall...they turn a beautiful red color. Later in the winter they are pruned and shaped up for the next season.

This is how they looked at the end of December. It was an unusually snowy winter....remember??

The Peach orchard gets pruned in the spring also and when the trees start to bloom, they are gorgeous.

Then we watch the temperatures at night. If it drops below freezing, the frost prevention needs to be turned on in the orchard. This year, there were many nights of waking...and going out to turn the misting sprinklers on. The water coats the small immature fruit and insulates to keep the peaches from freezing. The bucket in the picture has the sprinkler heads in it after the irrigation system was removed a few weeks ago.

When the rain stops and the fields dry out enough the spring field work begins...plowing, planting, hoeing and irrigating. Hope you enjoyed this small sampling of what goes on at the farm.

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Welcome to our 2009 Season!...almost.

SAUVIE ISLAND FARMS 2009. We are looking forward to a great season this year. Once the sun starts to shine in Oregon, our phone starts ringing, with people asking if the strawberries are ripe! We LOVE the enthusiasm, but the strawberries need warm temperatures at night, as well as the sunshine for them to ripen. A pictures speaks a thousand words, so take a look for yourself. These are the strawberries in our field this last week of May. Still pretty green. They are increasing in size and there are a LOT of blooms, so it is going to be a great harvest, once they start to ripen. We might have a few ripe berries by the first weekend of June. Check back!

The peonies, our first flowers to bloom in the u cut garden are almost ready to pop. There are tons of blooms this year..they just a few more days also!We will also have baby spinach, peas and lettuce for our first veggies this year. We are looking forward to opening the farm for you to come out and pick your own fruit and veggies right from the field where they are grown. If you would like to receive an email update each time we add info to this blog, you can add your address on the right of this page. This will help you stay current with all that we have available for you to pick at
SAUVIE ISLAND FARMS.

Lots of things are growing on the farm....check back for an update of what has been happening this past winter and spring! coming soon.....!