Abundantly Green® Diversified Family Farm
ABOUT OUR FARM

Summer Harvest
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by Crew

We came to be stewards of this farm in the late 1990s when Marilyn’s father could no longer deal with it. Our greatest accomplishment was keeping it together. The farm pass to us in 2001. We are the latest in a long heritage of farmers in Kitsap. Our farm has been a working farm in our family since 1892. The farm began with homesteaders Mr. and Mrs. Cooksey. It moved into our family in 1892.

Our vision for the farm is to create an integrated sustainable farming operation. We are working toward our goal of having an old fashioned farm that sustains itself, and provides our customers, our neighbors, with truly healthy food from a healthy farm. We use our old buildings and tell our family’s stories to remind us of the lessons of those who farmed here before. We are just passing through.

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How are you involved with agriculture?

As someone who eats, you are involved with agriculture with every bite you take. Every primary ingredient in your food should have been grown by a farmer, and that makes you an agriculturalist.

What type of agriculturalist are you?
 
Does your type of agriculture feed you nutrition-rich food? Is your food from a farm that cares for the soil and plants so that your food has a wide range of vitamins and minerals, and the greatest amount of usable protein for each food? Or is your food nutrition poor? Is it grown with the lowest common denominator in mind with no regard to the health of soil, and the nutrition of the food you eat?

Does your food heal you and heal the planet? Or not?

FARM STORE
Farm Store when it first opened
by Crew

Purple and White Kohlrabi
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by Cliff

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We keep our goals simple

  • Fresh picked food that didn't travel the interstate;
  • Healthy food raised without herbicides, pesticides, and GMO tinkering;
  • Hard-to-find vegetables and varieties;
  • A farm to visit where you can see your vegetables growing;
  • Tastier, sweeter food.

Our entire farm, all 60 acres, has been certified organic by WSDA/USDA since 2005.

Cliff, Marilyn, and Cubbette
Marilyn and Cliff in their Abundantly Green Garden
by Alisa Steck used with permission

Your Kitchen Garden
A kitchen garden is like the garden our great-grand parents had outside of the kitchen door ready for mom to step out and pick the vegetables for the meal she was making. It contained all the goodies that make a memorable meal.

In the summer, the kitchen garden extended many yards away from the back door, and in the winter cold frames and other season extenders made the garden a year round source of food. Like the kitchen garden of old, we are using season extenders to keep certified organic fresh vegetables growing. It''s hard to get anything fresher.

Abundantly Green grows the food you eat. Occasionally we trade excesses with other local farms. Any exception to that will be clearly noted. We grow multiple varieties of most vegetables, and what we have changes through the seasons.

“A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.”
― Joel Salatin,Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front 

Abundantly Green * 1146 NE Madison Road * Poulsbo * WA * USA * 98370 Phone: (360) 692-2504 farmer@abundantlygreen.com Abundantly Green is a registered trademark of Wind Holt & Company, LLC.  ©2013 Wind Holt & Company, LLC.