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    Articles by Debby Hatch
    Horse Drawn Farm's pickin' trailer provides a moveable home for pigs and chickens.
    Green Living: Horse Drawn Farm
    By Debby Hatch • June 8, 2011 2:50 pm

    Stop by Horse Drawn Farm’s self-serve farm stand on Port Stanley Road or their booth at the Saturday Market in…

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    Gardner Carol Noyes spreads Jewel-toned beans on the table. Noyes grows a variety of beans despite challenges.
    If you like a challenge, grow beans
    By Debby Hatch • May 10, 2011 1:34 pm

    Home gardeners like a challenge and will often go to great lengths to succeed with a particular vegetable or fruit….

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    Lopez sheep farmer Don Burt with his sheep.
    The First Annual Lopez Lamb and Wool Festival
    By Debby Hatch • May 9, 2011 10:56 pm

      The First Annual Lopez Lamb and Wool Festival will fill the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts on…

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    Blossom Grocery owners Jennell and Brian Kvistad and children Samuel and Freda.
    Green Living, Blossom Grocery: Making a Difference
    By Debby Hatch • March 8, 2011 5:37 pm

    If we are what we eat, what does the food we buy say about us?   Here on Lopez, Blossom…

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    The New Planting Year Continues!
    The New Planting Year Continues!
    By Debby Hatch • February 8, 2011 2:34 pm

    Vegetable gardeners who enjoy a challenge have already begun their 2011 planting, but for many other gardeners the first three…

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    Green Living, the new planting year begins.
    Green Living, the new planting year begins.
    By Debby Hatch • February 1, 2011 1:23 pm

    It’s January and for passionate vegetable gardeners in our temperate, maritime climate, the new planting year begins now. I asked…

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    Gingerbread people ornaments at Holly B’s Bakery ready to decorate holiday homes.
    Tasty holiday gifts from Holly B’s kitchen
    By Debby Hatch • December 12, 2010 1:00 am

    Gingerbread people and loaves of stollen from Holly B’s Bakery on Lopez are wonderful, local holiday gifts, but if you weren’t lucky enough to get to the bakery before it closed for the season, take heart! You can still bake your own.

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    Seasonal vegetables for the Thanksgiving table
    Thanksgiving reverie
    By Debby Hatch • November 5, 2010 7:47 pm

    It’s November and people are planning Thanksgiving dinner menus and inviting friends and family.

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    Diane’s display garden at Heritage Farm with Grandpa Ott’s Morning Glories covering the barn.
    A field trip: Seed Savers Exchange
    By Debby Hatch • October 8, 2010 8:42 pm

    For me and for many of my vegetable gardening friends, the Seed Savers Exchange Catalog and the annual Seed Savers Yearbook are favorite sources of heirloom seeds.

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    Plant rutabaga now and you can harvest it this winter
    Plant your winter roots now!
    By Debby Hatch • September 17, 2010 2:13 pm

    I’ve been gardening in the Pacific Northwest for 30 years and I’m still thrilled that I can grow a winter…

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    Blake Johnston and Julie Bottjen hold two of their Cornish Cross meat chickens.
    Pasture-raised chickens: It can be done
    By Debby Hatch • September 10, 2010 7:41 pm

    There is a lot of interest in grass-fed, pastured, humanely raised cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. Especially with the recent 10th anniversary of the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative and its Mobile Slaughter Unit that have made raising these animals profitable for local farmers.

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    The mobile meat processing unit has its ninth anniversary this year.
    Happy 10th anniversary, IGFC
    By Debby Hatch • September 3, 2010 7:52 pm

    This fall is the tenth anniversary of the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative. It is also the ninth year of USDA-inspected meat processing with the IGFC’s Mobile Slaughter Unit and its cut and wrap facility in Bow.

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    Below: Islanders gather in the Ag Tent for another event.
    Visit the Ag Tent at the San Juan...
    By Debby Hatch • August 6, 2010 8:24 pm

    Locally Grown is the theme of this year’s San Juan County Fair, Aug.18-21.

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