Farm Shoot in Skagit River Delta
I’ve recently been enjoying working with New Roots Organics, a Seattle based organic produce delivery company. You may recognize their warehouse between Fremont and Ballard by it’s giant purple metal beet hanging outside. Last week we made a visit to Frog Song Farm in Conway WA, in the Skagit River Valley to do some filming for a new series of videos for New Roots. This is some of the most fertile farmland in the nation, recently having officially surpassed the San Joaquin Valley. Frog Song is adjacent to Dry Slough Orchard, owned by the Frog Song owner’s dad. Together, they farm on a beautiful space on Fir island, ringed by dykes holding back the Skagit River on 2 sides and the ocean on another. Extensive golden wheat fields across the road looking east stretch toward Cascade mt peaks in the distance. We arrived early morning and it was gorgeous, greeted with fresh muffins and coffee, fruit, cheese and fresh crab caught in the nearby spit the day before, spread on a picnic table in the orchard. It was a great day filming vegetables growing and harvested.
- Bean bounty beauty
- Gahlic
- They grow 5 varieties of Asian pears
- Tractor blade sliced exposure
- Freshly cut grain across the street from the farm and orchard
- Sweet breakfast in the orchard with their fruit, honey, jam and crab.
- Fresh breakfast in the orchard with their fruit, honey, jam and crab
- Owner Dennis Reveals Dry Slough Orchard sign
- Super fertile soil
- Freshly cut wheat across the street from the farm and orchard
- Talking pumpkin scarification
- Big mama early in the season
- Greenhouse starts
- Super select northwest fruit
- Workers from Nayarit
- Bok choy starts
- Bean varieities
- Jelly bean
- The Cascades to the east
- tennis ball lemon cukes
- Nate of Frog Song and Carolyn of New Roots
- The reveal
- Fingerling potatoes off just 2 plants.
- Super juicy fresh pears
- Beautiful hazelnut.