Featured Recipes
Blueberry Blue Corn Muffins What a delight to walk into the Islander and see fresh Boxx Berry Farm blueberries in boxes on the checkout counter!
Sauteed Red Cabbage My daughter's employer is a farmer at heart, and was able to make time to grow a vegetable garden this year. He recently had more red cabbage than he could use.
Stuffed Zucchini Zucchini is infamous for how quickly and easily it grows around here. If you don't pick it while it is small, zucchini just keep growing, getting larger and larger until it gets ridiculous.
Vegetable Beef Soup Here's a soup recipe I made recently from leftover vegetables and herbs that needed to be used before they became too ripe. The ingredients can be varied in almost every way you can imagine.
Locavore Pizza Of all the recipes I've created so far with local ingredients, this pizza is my all-time favorite. It's so fast to prepare you won't believe it, and the flavor is extraordinary.
Recent Ideas and Menus
What’s This Web Site All About?
Comments (2) | February 20, 2010
In recent months, I’ve been reading and talking with people about the advantages of becoming a locavore*, a person who eats food grown, farmed, or produced locally. I’m giving it a try here in Whatcom County, Washington.
Blueberry Blue Corn Muffins
Comments (2) | August 28, 2010
What a delight to walk into the Islander and see fresh Boxx Berry Farm blueberries in boxes on the checkout counter!
Sauteed Red Cabbage
Comments (0) | August 28, 2010
My daughter’s employer is a farmer at heart, and was able to make time to grow a vegetable garden this year. He recently had more red cabbage than he could use.
Finding Local Food
Comments (0) | August 28, 2010
Finding locally grown organic food can be a fascinating treasure hunt, but it also can be time consuming, especially at first. Here are some food finding tips.
Stuffed Zucchini
Comments (0) | August 27, 2010
Zucchini is infamous for how quickly and easily it grows around here. If you don’t pick it while it is small, zucchini just keep growing, getting larger and larger until it gets ridiculous.
Trying New Local Ingredients
Comments (0) | August 27, 2010
As we begin to approach the peak harvest season in Whatcom County, I enjoy going to the Farmers Market to look for different or unusual varieties of vegetables I haven’t tried before.
Centennial Smoothies at the Fair!
Comments (3) | August 19, 2010
Whatcom Farm Friends coordinated with the Washington Red Raspberry Commission and the Whatcom County Dairy Women to develop a locally grown smoothie for the Fair’s Centennial this year.
Vegetable Beef Soup
Comments (0) | August 19, 2010
Here’s a soup recipe I made recently from leftover vegetables and herbs that needed to be used before they became too ripe. The ingredients can be varied in almost every way you can imagine.
Rainy Day Soup Menu
Comments (1) | August 18, 2010
Vegetable soup is a perfect rainy day solution for using leftover fresh produce before it gets too ripe.
Locavore Pizza
Comments (0) | August 06, 2010
Of all the recipes I’ve created so far with local ingredients, this pizza is my all-time favorite. It’s so fast to prepare you won’t believe it, and the flavor is extraordinary.


