News – Page 3 – Box of Good

Posted on September 30, 2011January 20, 2022 by Tristan Klesick

Imagine Children's Museum Harvest Festival, Oct. 8, 2011

We are so excited that Klesick Family Farm has been invited to participate as the resident organic farm during the Imagine Children’s Museum’s Harvest Festival scheduled for Saturday October 8, 2011.

What is the Harvest Festival?

From April to June, Imagine Children’s Museum hands out free seeds (pumpkin, zucchini, sunflower) for their program “Kids in the Garden,” which encourages families to get in the dirt together and plant a garden. One of the main components of the Harvest Festival is to ask children to bring in something they have grown in the garden and we display these “fruits of labor” in grand style. In addition to the “what have grown display” there will be harvest games, veggie art, vegetable science with our resident Dr. Science and just simple wonderful inside harvest fun.

Here at Klesick Family Farm, we have a wonderful representation of organic farming, and we will be sharing our knowledge with visitors at the Harvest Festival. We encourage all of our fans and customers to come to the Harvest Festival to learn more about local organic farming!

For more information on the Harvest Festival, please visit the Imagine Children’s Museum website here!

Posted on August 31, 2011January 20, 2022 by Tristan Klesick

Labor Day Holiday Delivery Schedule

Our office will be closed September 5th in observance of Labor Day. Because of this closure, our deliveries for that week are scheduled as follows:

For delivery Wednesday:

Tuesday customers and Wednesday customers in Monroe and Anacortes.

For delivery Thursday:

Thursday customers, except south Marysville (south of 100^th St NE) and remaining Wednesday customers.

For delivery Friday:

Friday customers and Thursday customers in south Marysville (south of 100^th St NE).

If you are planning on being away during the holiday week, please inform us if you will need to skip your delivery or, better yet, consider having us deliver your Box of Good to a local food bank through our Neighbor Helping Neighbor Program.

Have a happy Labor Day!

Posted on December 17, 2010January 20, 2022 by Tristan Klesick

You can find the river in the strangest places!

The other day I was out working on the farm, running to and fro, getting ready for the record whopper of a flood they say is coming my way. Now when you live near the mouth of the river and your farm is just barely above sea level, you’re often wondering, “will this be the one that soaks my farm?!”

You see, all the water begins its accumulation in the mountains and then makes it way via the watershed in an ever increasing volume…right by us lowlanders.

Well they (those in the know), were prognosticating the end of the life in the valley as we know it. Of course, I knew better, but then, I just live here. After the waters had been pouring across the fields and over the road for 16 hours, I sent Aaron, my trusty 16 year old, over to the part of the road that usually drains first to see if we could get Mom out to her ladies tea on Camano that night. Now, Aaron has one of those trucks that everyone loves to have when it is snowing or flooding, but eats your paycheck the rest of the year. So he went out, and headed over, walking through the water to check its depth. When he came back, he reported “It’s just over my rubber boots, I can get out!”

So we made a plan to get out, which, of necessity included driving all the way through Smokey point to get to Camano Island and then be back again in a few hours.

Well, just after dinner, and before the two were going to fjord the flood waters (mind you only farmers or idiots should attempt this!), I went out the front door and put on a pair of rubber boots to go to check the horses. WATERRRRRR! Cold river water! They were full of water! I went sloshing through the house, in my wet socks, looking for a clean pair, and asking Aaron why he didn’t dump out the water after he had reported back that he could make it through the flooded road. He smiled, a rather Cheshire cat smile, and said, “I thought I did?”

Sometimes there are just too many boots to choose from when you have 9 children and several pairs of the same size boots available on the porch.

Merry Christmas,

Tristan

PS. To see some videos of the flooding please visit: http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=334246821144