ABOUT THE FARM


Washington State Department of Agriculture

The Raven and the Spade is a Washington State Certified Organic farm, dedicated to enhancing and preserving the small-farming communities of Whidbey Island.  We believe it is our duty to be stewards of the land, using only natural methods of insect control, crop rotation, and the love of our land to enrich the soil that provides us with a wide variety of mouthwatering fruits and vegetables.  There is something deeply right about learning to eat with the flow of the seasons.


 

 

            Whidbey Island Grown          

 

            

The Raven and The Spade

 

The Farm is growing and will be open for the season on June 1st, 2012

The Raven and The Spade is a certified organic potager garden designed to be a pleasure garden where beauty and productivity are happily interwoven;  a garden which  spans utilitarian and ornamental ideals. The everyday vegetables and flowers are constantly evolving in a  mosaic anchored by wide grass paths that provide quiet rest.

We would like to give all our visitors a special opportunity to slow down wander and enjoy.  We encourage nibbling on beautiful certified organic vegetables to decide which is your favorite.  We have striven to create a marvelous atmosphere that inspires your imagination as well as your appetite. 

The elegant well-proportioned greenhouse of comfortable appeal sits at the north end of the garden.  Meyers lemons grown in pots provide fruit and cheerful summer décor among the vegetables.  Aromatics such as parsley, tarragon, lemon verbena, chives, thyme and rosemary, intermingle with the vegetables, fruit and flowers as part of the mosaic.

           Green Bean tunnel              

       Violetta choi