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VOLUME 36, NUMBER 39 • September 24, 2013

Great Island Grown Festival coming soon By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter

If you liked the county fair, you will love the fourth annual Great Island Grown Festival. It’s a three island, 13 day extravaganza with a cornucopia of food, farms and friendliness – just the elements that have made the San Juan County Fair the “can’t miss” event in the islands for more than a century. Spearheaded by the San Juan County Agricultural Resources Committee and the revitalized Island Grown in the San Juans program,

the festival “celebrates the bounty of abundant farms and locally-grown food in our beautiful archipelago within the Salish Sea,” according to Island Grown’s extensive new website, islandgrown. net. Food will be the hallmark of the two-week-long event. Each island will provide opportunities to fill your cupboard and yourself with local produce and seafood. All food events have a fee; visit islandgrown.net/festival for details. On Orcas, renowned chefs Christina Orchid and Madden Surbaugh are pro-

LOPEZ LOBOS Home Games This Week: 9/27 Volleyball 2:30 9/28 Football 2:00 10/1 Soccer 1:45 ‘The Pack’

ducing gourmet feasts at Red Rabbit Farm (Oct. 6) and the New Leaf Cafe (Oct. 12), respectively. Orchid’s “Going Whole Hog” will be an all-day event starting at 10 a.m., featuring instruction on butchering, roasting and preserving pork. There will also be an all-day Farm Olympics, with contests such as hay bale lifting and milk pail carrying. Proceeds benefit the Orcas School Farm to Cafeteria Program. Surbaugh’s gourmet Island Harvest Pop-up Dinner at 6 p.m. will feature local ingredients from

Maple Rock Farm, Coffelt Farm, Jones Family Farm and Buck Bay Shellfish. Locally produced beer, wine and San Juan Distillery spirits are included. Lopez feasts include a Lopez Locavores Evening Meal at the School Oct. 3; Lopez on the Halfshell Oct. 4, at 11 a.m. at Sweetwater Farm (with a tour); and a Farms to Feast dinner Oct. 13 at Jones Family Farm, prepared by Chef Derrek Bugge from Frank’s Oyster House and Champagne Bar in Seattle (also with a tour). Vita’s Wildly Delicious and

Elect Clive Prout Lopez Island School Board Director 2

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watercolorist Tom Hoffman team up Oct. 11 and 12 for a two-day watercolor course followed by a wine-tasting dinner at 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12. San Juan Island will host its share of gastronomic delights, too. There’s a Chili Cook-off Oct. 6 at the Brickwords; a Bike and Gastronomic Tour the same day, with a lunch at Red Mill Farm; and a Tour the Fields, Taste the Feast event Friday, Oct. 11, with dinner following at Coho Restaurant in Friday Harbor. The Oct. 5 and Oct. 12 Farmers’ Markets on Orcas, Lopez and San Juan islands will be overflowing with freshly harvested veggies and fruits, some of it ready to eat and some ready to cook. San Juan County’s farmers have learned to grow almost everything from spring to fall, so you can choose from a big variety. On Orcas, also Oct. 5 and 12, a Food Masters Workshop can inform you

how the best farmers and processors grow, harvest and preserve. Three workshops, 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. each day, will tell you about sustainable horticultural practices, at the Community Garden, and value-added production, at the Village Green. And what’s a festival without a parade? Sponsored by the Grange No. 966, the Friday Harbor Fall Farm Parade Oct. 5 is a hoot-andholler event, from children with chickens and pets, to farm families with tractors and harvesters parading through Friday Harbor’s main streets to celebrate the resurgence of smalls farms and local food in the San Juans. It starts at the county fairgrounds at 2:30 p.m. and ends at Brickworks. If the islandgrown.net website doesn’t answer all your questions, call Peggy Bill of the Agricultural Resources Committee, 378-6621, or Boyd Pratt at Island Grown, 370-7666.

Lopez Center

In Concert

Friday Oct. 4th at 7:30pm

Sharon Abreu with Marianne

sings soprano Lewis on piano

Classical songs & arias to delight & inspire $15/Adult $8/Youth Tickets: Lopez Center, www.lopezcenter.org, at the door, Paper Scissors on the Rock, or Lopez Book Shop

& Chili Feed

Sunday Sept. 29 5:30-8:30pm Lopez Center with:

JP and the OK Rhythm Boys Donations accepted at the door Presented by SWAP


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