If you would like to pick your own organic berries, attend a Women's Festival, or learn how to grow and store your own garlic, then Stillpoint Farm is the place for you.
The man and I wanted to put up a bunch of blueberries this summer. A bunch. And we were connectionless. So, we started calling around. Riverbend Farms recommended Stillpoint, and the rest is history.
Stillpoint is a very small farm. They do berries (straw and blue, primarily), and started a garlic crop this year--most of which was sold to Capella (yay for supporting local farmers!). Their website is now up and running, and seems pretty informative: http://www.stillpointfarms.com/stillpointfarm/ Seems like a great way to plan for canning needs as summer approaches.
Now, as for our trip ... We wended our way out to Veneta on a hot day in July and were pleased to note that a sizable berry patch awaited us. We picked up our buckets from a nice lady, and were off. In about an hour we had picked enough blueberries to get us through the winter (in November, we tried the first of these--and they tasted as good as the day we picked them! Thank you, Alton Brown!)
We could have just paid for our berries and left, but we noticed that one of the owners was in the barn, putting up garlic. Having just harvested a sizable garlic crop ourselves, we were curious...what do we do? We were enlightened to the differences between hard (cook your garlic whistles!) and soft (braid and hang) necked varieties, and offered a sample to bring home. We also learned that the First Annual Women's Festival was to be held at the farm in August. An event with an impressive line up of musicians, native healers, and other spiritual guides. We missed it this year, but hopefully will have an opportunity to enjoy this, and many other festivities at Stillpoint in the future.
Meanwhile, go berries! read more