Supporting Local Farms.
Advocating for Local Food.
Cultivating Community.
To ensure the future of local farming
and build a healthier community
through a resilient and equitable food ecosystem.
Our local farmers markets are closed for the season but Kitsap Fresh delivers items from over 50 local farms and producers! Click below to learn more.
Friends of the Farms has been listening
It was gratifying to hear from so many of you as we embarked on our "Listening Tour" earlier this year.
Your voices were joined by those in our farming community on Bainbridge Island and in North Kitsap, and by key businesses that depend on fresh produce and local farm products.
As we sought clarity on our role in supporting local farmers and our communities, four themes emerged:
- Consumer Education
- Farmer Education
- Accessing Sales and Distribution Channels / Marketing
- Community Engagement
It excites us to know that we are good at this kind of work and it inspires us to focus our efforts for 2025 - 2030 on:
- Creating interest, investment, and pride in local agricultural businesses and our rural landscapes so that they are part of the everyday fiber of our communities.
- Fostering year-round, dynamic connections among our farmers, businesses, and communities.
- Bringing awareness of and respect for small-scale local agriculture to ensure a thriving future, where farmers are valued and farmland is conserved for future generations.
- Ensuring that farmers, farm workers, and interns have the ability to live in the communities they serve.
Some of your local farms.
Keep it local year-round by visiting the Market at Bay Hay and Feed or ordering online through Kitsap Fresh. You can still enjoy locally grown and made products year-round.
Fresh Local organic food comes daily from Bainbridge, Poulsbo, Kingston, Olympic peninsula and the San Juan Island. Items such as Produce, Milk, Eggs, Cheese, Pork, Beef, Chicken and Bread are available everyday at Bay Hay and feed! Create and pick up dinner! Now you can pick up a bag of Island-grown vegetables, half and half, a dozen eggs, some fresh chevre, meat or chicken any day of the week at Bay Hay and Feed. Have a bottle of local wine from Rollingbay Winery or Bainbridge Vineyard with some smoke salmon from Crimson Cove. Our coolers and freezer are stocked with locally-grown food. We have apples by the case or the by the pound from a organic grower in Chelan. We are now a small grocery store and have a small selection of almost everything!
Kitsap Fresh is an online farmers market dedicated to Kitsap grown goods. Access 50 + local farms and food producers all from one online storefront. Your order is sorted, organized and waiting for you. No membership required.
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