Located on Esther St. between 6th and 8th the Vancouver Farmers Market has been a mainstay of Vancouver life for over two decades. It returns to downtown for its 23rd season debt free. A few years ago, the market incurred a significant amount of debt and took action by closing ...
Buying locally grown and raised food directly from the farmer is a national movement that is gaining momentum in Clark County. One of the most popular places to experience that is at the Vancouver Farmers Market. Located near Esther Short Park in the heart of downtown Vancouver, the weekly Vancouver ...
Buying meat and produce from a big national supplier would be easier and less expensive, but it would also give local restaurateur Brad Root a hole in his soul. For more than 20 years, Root has cooked with a passion for local ingredients and he puts a lot of emphasis ...
It all started with garlic at NW Organic Farm in Ridgefield. “But we soon learned you can’t live on garlic,” co-owner Joyce Haines says. The farm that she and her husband operate now produces everything from garlic and lettuce to snap peas and more than 3,000 tomato plants. Haines says the farm ...
Matt and Jen Schwab of Ridgefield’s Inspiration Plantation explain why they operate their diversified farm with natural practices and how people in the community can become consumers of local food. To see COUV.COM’s previous coverage of Inspiration Plantation and to experience a day-in-the-life on the farm, see ‘Life at Inspiration ...
Listen to an audio podcast of this story here: For nearly a century the Schwab family has maintained land in North Clark County, where each generation has tried his hand at working the land. None of the attempts produced a lasting operation, but now Matt and his wife Jen are ...
Things are growing at Dilish Farm in Vancouver where Dillon Haggerty and Patricia Kent are well into their first season of urban farming. Most young couples wouldn’t think to start farming, especially with a baby on the way. But Haggerty and Kent don’t see their plan as a risk, but ...
COUV.COM Originals are back and this time we’re taking a trip to a local farm. Business begins with relationships at Inspiration Plantation in Ridgefield. The diversified family farm is rooted in ancestral land where connections are cultivated between the farmer, the consumer, and nature – all in a quest for ...
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