Today the Honor the Gift of Food class toured several Skagit Valley farms to learn 
more about local food production and food systems. We visited Kai at Hedlin Farms and learned about their interesting and diverse 400-acre mixed vegetable, fruit and flower farming systems and we discussed their various markets, including their CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), farmstand, wholesale and farmer’s markets.
Then we visited Christie Stein at Riversong Farm, a beautiful 5-acre CSA farm. She showed us her vegetable fields as well as her friendly sheep, ducks, chickens and turkeys.
We finished our tour by stopping at the WSU Master Gardener demonstration garden were we saw some good examples of home gardens and composting systems. A full day and luckily we were back in the van before the rains came.