A picture is worth a thousand words at Sauvie Island Farms....

The harvest is bountiful this week!

Available for you to pick:
Red Haven Peaches
Raspberries
Blueberries
Marionberries
Kale
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Cucumbers: 
(slicing, lemon, pickling)
Dill
Green Beans
Beets
Lettuce
Dahlias, sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias

We are open
Monday-Saturday 8am-7pm.  See you soon!

Early Red Haven Peaches!

Friday, July 12, we will open the orchard for
pick your own
 Early Red Haven Peaches!

  These trees are loaded with beautiful fruit this year.
Peaches are $1.50 per lb with a discount if you pick over 15 lbs.

Marionberries are also ready to be picked. 
Lots of sweet berries!
Blue Crop Blueberries and Raspberries are available also!
The u-pick berries are all $2.00 per lb.

We have a nice selection of veggies to harvest this week.
Cauliflower, Broccoli, Green Beans, Pickling Cukes, Dill,
Zucchini, Slicing Cukes, Peas, Kale, & Cabbage.

Dahlias and Sunflowers are blooming as well as
daisies, lilies, lavender, baby's breath, cosmos, and more!

 

 

So many berries

Sauvie Island Farms Raspberries
 

We have three varieties of raspberries that are ripe and ready to pick now!
Coho, Saanich and Tulameen.
All of these berries have ripen at once, and are sweet and waiting to be picked.
Raspberries love the cooler weather, and with the heat that is predicted for this weekend and next week, they will wither and fall off the vines.  It's a great time for easy raspberry picking.
Come out before it gets too hot!

Early Blue Blueberries are loaded with larger than normal sized berries that are flavorful and sweet.
The picking is so easy, there are so many ripe on each bush.
We have also opened the marionberry field.  Be selective and only pick the darkest ones, there are many red ones that need more time to ripen.
All the berries are $2.00 per lb for u-pick.

We have a beautiful field of kale waiting to be harvested.
Kale is so healthy for you.
I put a handful in my breakfast smoothie every day,
it's a great way to add more greens to your daily nutrition.
Kale is easy to pick,

just snap off the leaves from the plant.
It doesn't weigh much,

so you can get a lot at $3.00 per lb.

We also have spinach, napa cabbage,

cabbage, and snow peas.
Several flowers are blooming, even a few dahlias have started to open up.
Hope to see you this week on the farm!

Raspberries and Blueberries

Coho Raspberries and Early Blue Blueberries
Pick You Own~Saturday June 15, 2013
 $2.00 per lb.

 

 Both of these berries are easy to pick,  
and there are plenty of sweet berries ripening each day.

We will have our tractor pulled wagon ride going out to the berry fields beginning Saturday!

You can tell  a raspberry is ripe when it starts to pull away from the stem. 

U-pick Strawberries fields are still open for you to pick in also.
The Hoods are very small, but sweet.  Still some nice Shuksan and Valley Reds.
Strawberries are $1.50 per lb.
Spinach, Kale and Chinese Cabbage are ready to harvest!
Shasta Daisies, Lavender and Hydrangeas are blooming.

Strawberries~June 1, 2013

Sauvie Island Farms will be opening for 
Pick Your Own Strawberries 
on Saturday, June 1, 2013 8am-7pm.  

Hoods and Valley Reds are ripe and ready to be picked.

                                                 
U-pick price is just $1.50 lb.                                           
We will also have fresh picked each day. Call if you 
want to reserve a flat.  503-621-3988

Flowers in bloom


Peonies~$1.00 bloom or 12/$10
Lupine~75 cents per bloom
Pinks ~25 cents per bloom
Herbs~$2.00 a bunch

We hope to see you soon on the farm!

October Pumpkins

There still time to get pumpkins at Sauvie Island Farms.  We are open 9am-6pm each day except Sunday until Halloween.   There are lots of jack o lantern pumpkins in the field waiting to go home with you.
Also, it's not to late to get a cinderella and buttercup squash to bake and make into fresh pumpkin puree for pies, muffins, breads or even ice cream!!  The puree freezes nicely in zip lock bags.  After many requests, we are posting Cindy's pumpkin bread recipe.

Pumpkin Bread
3 c sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 t. salt
1 t cinnamon
1/2 t baking powder
1 t cloves
1 t nutmeg
2 c pumpkin
3 1/2 c flour
2 t soda
1 c walnuts
1/2 c buttermilk
chocolate chips

Thoroughly mix all ingredients together.  Place in 3 greased and dusted with flour, bread pans
and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.

Enjoy...and thanks to Cindy for sharing her recipe with us!

Fall on the Farm

Fall weather is finally here!  The rain has settled the dry, dusty ground around the farm, and cooled off the air.  It feels like fall...and it's time to come out to get your pumpkins and fall decor.
You can pick your pumpkins right from the field where they grew, as well as sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash, gourds, zinnias, and sunflowers.  The dahlias are done for this year, we had a heavy frost last weekend that turned them all brown.
We have free hayrides, straw maze, pyramid, mini corn maze and our animals to visit also!

The pumpkins at our farm are not just for halloween carving.  They can also be eaten!

We wanted to share Cindy's favorite  pumpkin pie recipe with you.... which originally came from Grandma Keller, the farmer's mom's mother...:)
She uses a medium size Cinderella pumpkin and a buttercup squash for the pumpkin filling.
To bake these, cut in half, clean out the seeds, and turn cut side down in a pan with
an inch of water, cook in the oven until the pumpkin and squash are soft, then scoop out half of each and puree together in a blender.  You can freeze whatever you don't use for this recipe.

Here is the pumpkin pie recipe. If you try it and like it, let us know!

Grandma Keller's Pumpkin Pie:
Mix together:
1 cup pumpkin
2/3 cup sugar
1 T flour
1 egg
Mix together and add to pumpkin mixture:
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1 pinch salt
Stir in:
1 1/2 cup milk
Put this mixture into an unbaked pie crust.
Melt 1 T butter, spread over top of pumpkin and stir in a little.
Bake for 10 minutes at 450 degrees
Turn oven down to 325 degrees and bake another 45 minutes.