Your FarmGirls This Season

Cathryn Baerwald
Summer Run Farm in Carnation, WA

Cathryn is our main CSA grower this season, growing intensely beautiful, flavorful produce on approximately five acres of her new 20-acre property (having outgrown a two-acre farm a couple years back). Her farm is on the valley floor — yes, that means floodplain. A former school teacher, Cathryn got into farming six years ago and is a hell of a good one, having a green thumb, tractor know-how, and market savvy — a nice combination in this (bumpy) field. Cathryn grew up about five miles, as the crow flies, from where she farms now... THAT'S a LOCAL FARMGIRL!

Sarah Cassidy
Oxbow Farm in Carnation, WA

Currently raising not crops but a wee girl, Sarah is currently the newsletter writer, not a food grower, 'cause that's about all she's got in her at the moment! She started Oxbow Farm nine years ago, with her husband Luke, stopped in 2008 to have a baby, and is currently working part time at other jobs that pay better than hourly labor at Oxbow! Oxbow Farm is now up to 12 acres and is located in the valley land of Carnation. Before farming Oxbow, she worked at Seattle Tilth, landscaped, managed a farm, and was a singing and dancing waitress. But that was then. Now, she daydreams about what kind of farming she will do when she can revisit farming.... We shall see what organically grows on the vine of the future! For now, FarmGirl Collective feeds her need to keep a hand in the farm world.

Becky Reimer
Tolt River Farm in Carnation, WA

Becky is on a sabbatical from farming full time this year, and yet, lucky for us, she cannot NOT farm. Her 3 acre farm is in Carnation too, but up on ridge soil, a different growing game altogether than the low-landers. Her farm's unique soil and microclimate allows for different crops to excel. But I don't think that can explain her garlic. As many of you already know, Becky communes with the Garlic Goddess, and therefore grows some absurdly HUGE and BEAUTIFUL heads of garlic that should be bronzed, but are much better eaten. Just you wait for garlic season, y'all.... Becky has been farming for over five years and has many years of gardening experience under her belt, and nails.