Plain Old Farm

Greetings and welcome!

Plain Old Farm is a 1 1/2 acre organic family farm on Vashon Island in Washington owned by us, the Valencia family, and farmed by us, and occasionally by or with others from our community. Last year our friends at the Journey School Food Community farmed most of this land for their 30 member CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). This year we Valencias have gently returned to farming -- even as we prepare to relocate elsewhere (yet to be determined to where!) -- putting much of the land in cover crop, while also cultivating some rows in for ourselves and in companionship with a few friends. Our flock of seven hens enjoys free-ranging the farm, and we all delight in working with this delicious land and the generous plants that are growing here.

In these photos, it's late spring of '07 on the farm. Here, a broadfork takes its ease beside a lovely and delicious kale forest.

Below, we find young chickens in Sunbalm Castle. Journey School raised 50 chickens for a Lavendar Farm Tour feast which was held a month after these photos were taken. Six of these chickens survived to become ours. Could these chicks in the picture be ours as youth? Snowneck on the right? Read more about our chickens.