STRAWBERRIES - OPENING JUNE 9th

Sauvie Island Farms will be opening for the 2010 season on Wednesday, June 9th.

Pick Your Own STRAWBERRIES - $1.50 lb

and u-cut Peonies - $1.00/stem will be available 8am-7pm.

We are open Monday-Saturday, closed on Sundays.

Due to our Oregon weather, the fields will be very muddy and wet.

We do have boxes that you can purchase to pick into, or bring your own containers.

Check our farm message line at 503-621-3988 for the most current field and picking conditions.

Hope to see you soon on the farm!

2010

Sauvie Island Farms update...

It is the end of May and I must apologize for not getting a farm update out before now. Although the weather this spring has been challenging, we have planted a new field of strawberries for next year's harvest, added some trees to the peach orchard, along with the winter tasks of equipment maintenance and planning for this year's crops. The farm ground is still very wet in most fields, some of the crops are in, but a majority are still waiting to be planted. The berries that stay in the ground all year are growing, and we hope to have ripe strawberries by the end of next week.

We will send out an update with the opening date, once the strawberries are ripe enough to pick! We will also have beautiful peonies for you to cut, and a few other early flowers are just starting to bloom.

We are looking forward to some warmer weather and a great season on the farm!

Good Bye 2009

Sauvie Island Farms wants to wish all of you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2009 is coming to an end with mixed emotions for us. We have had a challenging year. The cannery we contract corn with went bankrupt, leaving us with 200 acres of sweet corn, and no place to sell it. Also the change of location for our October pumpkin harvest, the challenge of dealing with random weather, and a new pest infesting our berries and peaches, kept us busy trying to adjust while attempting to keep our farm authentic and producing high quality fruit and vegetables! We welcomed the challenge of our first year of u-cut christmas trees and had great weather for the tree sales. Now all that is cleaned up and we are settling in to the winter tasks of bookkeeping, equipment repairs and planning for the 2010 season. There will be some time of rest for us as well as the land, then we will be back at it in the spring, planting and preparing for another 'fruitful' season. We hope that you will begin this new year with anticipation and hope for a good future...as we do each year when we begin again with new plantings and crops....always hoping for the best!!!

christmas is coming....

It's that time of year again. We can't slow it down. It's coming...the holiday season is HERE.

Sauvie Island Farms is opening this year for choose and cut CHRISTMAS TREES.
We have Douglas Fir, Grand Fir and Noble Fir trees available for you to cut.

The Douglas Firs are table top size to 10 feet tall, for $3.00 per ft.

The Grand Firs are table top size to 7 feet tall, for $4.00 per ft

The Nobles are table top size to 6 feet tall, selling for $5.00 per ft.

We will shake the tree to get all the dead leaves and bugs out before you take it home. We can also bale it. We provide carts and saws for you to use while on the farm.

Opening on Friday, November 27th from noon-5pm. Saturday, November 28th, we will be open 10 am - 5pm or until it is too dark to see the trees.

Check our website for a great coupon, directions, and hours during December. http://www.sauvieislandfarms.com/

Be Thankful

Monday, our power was out, due to the winds and a tree falling on a power line just up the road from our house.

It is amazing how much 'work' I can't do without electricity! Since I couldn't do the laundry, or the dishes (our water comes from a well that uses electricity), and most important, couldn't use the computer.

I went outside to take some pictures, and as I was walking and looking, I

saw such beauty. It made me stop and think about where we live,the blessing we have, the people we meet who come out to pick our crops during the summer, and how busy we can get, until we don't actually 'see' all the good that is around us.

It is always good to slow down, look around and count your blessings.

I guess that is what this 'thanksgiving' time is for.

I am thankful for so many things...but just wanted to say that I am thankful for the farm, and for those of you who come out to visit and to pick our crops during the harvest. It is our pleasure to have you here, and we hope that you always feel welcome when you come out.

Take some time in the next few days, to slow down, and look at all the blessing around you!! Be Thankful!

p.s.(I realllllly dislike how the christmas decorations, etc come out before thanksgiving, so am hesitant to mention anything about the christmas holiday before thanksgiving has come and gone...but stay tuned. We are opening the farm this year for u-cut christmas trees....opening day-Friday, November 27th...more info coming soon.)

So Many Pumpkins

There are hundreds of pumpkins for you to choose from at the pumpkin fields at Sauvie Island Farms. If you haven't gotten your October pumpkin or decor up yet...this would be a great week to come out and pick your pumpkin right out of the field. We also have white, cinderella, squash, gourds, mini pumpkins, haybales, cornstalks and more. We will be open Monday-Saturday this week 9am-7pm if we are not having extreme weather conditions. Call ahead before you head out on the week days. 503-621-3988.

A-Maze-ing Graze R.I.P.

It's October 1st, the weather has changed and FALL is in the air.

For the past 5 years, we have had an 8 acre corn MAZE as well as u-pick PUMPKINS, hayrides, animal barn, and other harvest activities at our leased property just 1/4 mile from the bridge on Sauvie Island. Long story short: this leased property is for sale, the owners thought there was a sale, so we were out, then the sale fell thru, but didn't happen in time for us to plant, etc for this October....resulting in NO corn maze this year. We had partnered with 104.1 The Fish radio station for the past 5 years and are so grateful to them for promoting our maze.

So...what's up for 2009?
We have over 30 acres of pumpkins planted at our home place...3 1/2 miles from the bridge on Sauvie Island Road. We will be open on FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS 9am-7pm in October. We will have a hayride to take you to the pumpkin fields & to see our farmyard animals. We also have a area for the kids to play...a straw pyramid, strawmaze, & tractor tire maze. We will NOT have some of the 'attractions' that we had at our other location. This year, we are coming 'home', back to the farm, and will be keeping things simple.

If you have been to our farm in the summer for u-pick, you know that we are a working farm,and have attempted to keep it as non-commercial as possible. We want you to enjoy our farm, to feel like you are on the farm with crops growing all around you, rather than a paved parking lot and large warehouse buildings. We are attempting to do that this October.

We will have some vegetables available for u-pick~sweet corn, squash, peppers, cabbage, etc. Also, straw bales, cornstalks, gourds, apples, & pears.

We hope you will come out and enjoy the harvest season on the farm.