Crescent Harbor Blueberry Farm - Oak Harbor, WA

From their website:  Crescent Harbor Blueberries

The Crescent Harbor Bleberry Farm is located on Whidbey Island, just east of Oak Harbor, Washington, on the corner of Crescent Harbor Road and Laurel Lane (2726 Laurel Lane, Oak Harbor, WA).

The farm normally opens around the Fourth of July and closes in late August, depending on the weather.  The 2011 season will open Wednesday July 27th due to the cold, wet spring.

Blueberries are available in:
     6 pound half-flat (6 one pound pints) for $24,
     single one-pound pints for $4.00,
     and u-pick at $3.00 per pound.
Please call ahead for orders and upick, 360 679 4210.

Huntersmoon Farm - Blueberries - Oak Harbor, WA

One of the highlights for my boys on last years Whidbey Island Farm Tour, Huntersmoon Farm had a great farm for picking blueberries.  The people were exceptionally friendly, they had a variety of other items for sale at the entrance to the farm, and very easy access to the blueberries for toddlers.

From the farm tour website:

Huntersmoon Farm is a 10 acre, late season, organic blueberry farm. We grow Legacy, Aurora, and Elliott blueberries using sustainable agricultural practices, with respect and stewardship for the environment.  Our goal is to produce the finest tasting fruit possible and extend that quality in all our processed products.  For sale at the farm: plants; preserves; syrup; scone, pancake, and muffin mixes; white chocolate blueberry bark; dark chocolate covered blueberries; blueberry taffy; fresh blueberries; blueberry honey; and unique blueberry teas.  Fresh baked blueberry goods and sorbet can be eaten at the farm or to go.  Guests can u-pick, get a tour of the farm, or learn about biochar, compost tea, organic weed control, and all things blueberry.  Neighbor Farms will be invited to be on hand.  Our friends, the Oak Harbor Urban Farm will be on hand and Case Farm will join us on Sunday and will have a variety of vegetables for sale.

Directions: From Oak Harbor – travel north on SR 20 and turn right onto Fakkema. Turn right onto Taylor, turn left onto Silver Lake, turn left onto DeVries. At the bottom of the hill, turn right onto Bunch Lane. Farm is first house on the left.

Mile Post 19 Farm - Raspberries

Mile Post 19 Farm - Raspberries.  I have never been, but it is on my list of places to go to in the near future.

Mile Post 19 Farm Website

Location marked on the map.

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Christmas Tree Farm - Scattered Acres Farms

Getting our own Christmas tree is a McKnight family tradition.  We go out the day after Thanksgiving and cut down a tree, bringing it back to setup over the next couple of days.  Not your normal Black Friday tradition I suppose, but I like our way better.

For the last couple of years we have gone to Scattered Acres Farms in Clinton.  This is definitely not the super mega tree farm with dancing polar bears and ice skating rinks.  Pretty simple, you pull up and grab a saw from the porch.  Grab the flier as well detailing the property boundaries.  Then go look for your ideal tree.

When you come back, grab some hot apple cider and pay a very reasonable price!

Picking Pumpkins - Sherman Farms Experience

Why do some people go to the store and grab a pumpkin?  With little kids, it is such a great adventure to go out and pick your own from the field, something that should not be missed!




Tracy, myself, and my boys - Dylan 2, Carter 4 - took off to grab pumpkins one Saturday afternoon in early October.  It was a nice less than hour drive for us up to Sherman Farms, where we arrived too early to pick pumpkins.  A failing of our early-rising family is that we are often arriving at places and waiting for them to open!  So with 45 minutes to kill, we took a nice drive around the historic Ebey's Praire.  All the fields have signs that identify the crops growing in the fields.  At this time of year, several of the fields were already harvested, but it was still fun to read while driving and see what is grown in that area.  Two minutes down the road, you hit water - the road dives off the bluff and there is a little park on the right.  The beach there is long and gravelly, and there are signs giving directions to several trails through the historic area and to the historic blockhouse.  But that was another trip, this trip was about Pumpkins!

Now that Sherman's farm was open, we came in and started looking at all the produce and items for sale in the little farm store and told the nice manager that we wanted to pick pumpkins.  It seemed like a nice family operations, from younger teenagers through a couple generations older helping out with the store, putting out produce, and firing up the tractor for the ride to the pumpkin field!

The Sherman's fired up their huge Tonka tractor - since we arrived right as they opened, we got the honor of  the first tractor ride of the day!

The kids loved the ride in the tractor out into the middle of the pumpkin field.  We had bought a pumpkin each, so he pulled the tractor out down a side tract, then we piled out of the wagon to each find the perfect pumpkin for Halloween!

Of course, Dylan had a different strategy, which was grab every pumpkin he could find and make a big pile....  two-year-olds have their own wisdom.

After gathering up and limiting to one each, we took the tractor back across the fields to the farm store/shack.  I could not resist buying a couple extras - two "sweet meat" pumpkins and a very large Hubbard Sugar Squash.

It was a great experience with the whole family having a great time!  And did I mention the price?  $4 each per pumpkin, $5 for the giant Hubbard?  Economical as well!