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Challenge of year-round farming is focus of day-long event in Sequim, Wash.

(Seattle, Wash., December 3, 2007) – The PCC Farmland Trust (Trust), is sponsoring a tour, dinner and lecture event to educate participants about the challenges of year-round farming and saving farmland from development. 

The event will take place at the Delta Farm in Sequim, Wash., on Saturday, January 19.  The Delta Farm is home to Nash’s Organic Produce, and one of four Washington state properties the Trust has secured for organic production. 

Event participants will tour Nash’s Organic Produce, viewing the entire 400+ acre operation, including the 97-acre Delta Farm purchased by the Trust in 2001.  Owner and operator Nash Huber, and field production manager Scott Chichester, will discuss the challenges they face in growing vegetables twelve months a year, and the particular issues involved in winter vegetable production. 

 A dinner prepared by Field to Fork, Nash’s catering team, will follow the tour, along with acoustic mountain blues performed by local musicians. WSU Clallam county extension director Dr. Curtis Beus will discuss “Food from everywhere and nowhere;”  local farmland saving group, Friends of the Fields, will talk about land use issues on the Olympic Peninsula; and Trust representatives will provide updates on their work.

 Event cost is $45 and includes the tour, transportation between farms, meal, one drink and evening entertainment.  Tickets for children 4-12 are $20; 3 and under are free.  A tour-only option is available at $15 for adults, $8 for children 4-12, 3 and under are free.  Online event registration available at www.pccfarmlandtrust.org.