Country Life Special Section • Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Fame for local cow
Gardening • B2 Dairy • B2 Fair photos • B3
Darigold to move Seattle offices upscale in 2017
Headquarters will be in Georgetown Squared. (Courtesy photo)
Lease of longtime Rainier Avenue building is up; Georgetown Squared new site
Sabrina the cow spends her last day grazing at Edelweiss Dairy on Aug. 12, 2016. The local Jersey has been cast on the reality TV show “Alaskan Bush People” and will spend the remainder of her life in Alaska. (Ashley Hiruko/Lynden Tribune)
Reality Show ‘Alaskan Bush People’ casts local Edelweiss cow By Ashley Hiruko reporter@lyndentribune.com
EVERSON — There’s a new celebrity in town. Sabrina, the cow, has been cast for the reality show “Alaskan Bush People.” The documentary-style show airs on the Discovery channel and focuses
on the lives of the Browns, a family living off of the land in a desolate region in Alaska. On Aug. 12, Sabrina’s owner, Jan Wolfisberg, made the journey to take Sabrina to her new home in a much colder climate. The pair traveled over 1,600 miles by car and ferry to Juneau, Alaska. Jan Wolfisberg then stayed with the family and crew to teach them how to properly care for the prizewinning cow before venturing back home. Hans Wolfisberg, Jan’s father and owner of Edelweiss Dairy, was first contacted by
producers of the show. They were in need of a cow, and the Wolfisbergs were in supply. “I wasn’t sure if it was just a joke,” Hans Wolfisberg said about the initial call. After moving to Alaska, Sabrina would stay with the Brown family for a month while video footage was shot, before being adopted by an Alaskan local to live out the remainder of her life. “She’s going to be the quote, unquote family’s source of protein for milk and butter,” Jan Wolfisberg said. “They’re going to be self-sufficient; the
cow’s going to be the family pet.” Foreseeable challenges both Hans and Jan Wolfisberg mentioned will be protecting the cow from predators, like bears, and finding suitable feed. When it came to choosing a cow to sell, there was one obvious choice: Sabrina. “The reason why this cow would work so well is because she’s older, tame and calm,” Jan Wolfisberg said. “She’s halter
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SEATTLE — Darigold will move its corporate headquarters to the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle next year, the dairy products company announced Aug. 2. The new site is a few miles away from the current location on Rainier Avenue, which has been Darigold’s base of operations for many decades. Staff will relocate in spring 2017 to Georgetown Squared at 5601 6th Ave. South. “With the lease expiring on our current building, we took the opportunity to look at upgrade options,” said Stan Ryan, Darigold president and CEO. “I’m excited to increase the quality of our work environment at the new location. The new building will provide a highly collaborative space, which will stimulate teamwork.” Employee feedback was sought during the evaluation
of a move. For now, renovations continue at Georgetown Squared, a building of 280,000 square feet in a district south of downtown, with Darigold’s portion of construction to start late this year. Georgetown Squared bills itself with a “work outside the lines” slogan. The big building offers collaborative open space for all tenants, floorplates that go upward from 60,000 square feet, and unobstructed views of downtown Seattle and Mt. Rainier. Darigold has been in the dairy business in the Northwest for generations, as it has been farmer-owned since 1918. “Our co-op’s farm families are proud to bring service and quality to everything they do,” Ryan said. “The dedication of our farmers and employees continues as we will celebrate our 100th anniversary in the new location in 2018.” Darigold is the marketing and processing arm of the Northwest Dairy Association cooperative of about 500 dairy farm families. Darigold operates 11 processing plants in the Northwest, including a milk drying facility in Lynden.
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