Yesterday was a very social day for us! We decided to plan a get together for the young adults in the church. We had pockets of people that knew each other, and it's really hard for all of us to coordinate our schedules to all see each other at church every week, so I decided a get together was in order so that we could all meet and get to know each other better. Plus, parties are just fun.
However, after we planned it, one of our friends told us that there was a farm tour event going on the same day which they were going to and invited us to come. So to the farms we went! There were 14 farms participating, we made it to 3 :) You drive around to different farms in the area and they have events, tours, samples :) , etc. First stop- creamery (ice cream samples!) . This was the same creamery that we had been buying cheese from all summer at the farmer's market, so we were excited. This time however, we bought something we'd been meaning to try all summer- their cinnamon spice butter! Now normally I am NOT a butter person. I basically only use it for baking. But this sounded too good too pass up. I figured we'd find some use for it. We had it on crepes this morning with sliced banana, and it was delicious! I can't wait to try it on french toast! We got to meet the cows that made it all possible, even 3 baby day old calves!
Then it was on to the next farm. After getting slightly lost, we finally found Hedlin Family Farm. They had races with vegetable cars for the kids, lots of produce for purchase, and a hayride farm tour. It was pretty cool, it was around 100 years old; their family had come from Holland and had been here farming so long they had everything down to a very well organized system.
The last stop on our farm tour was La Conner Flat Farm. It was kinda the complete opposite of Hedlin in that while they were both quite old, La Conner was more like hobby farming instead of farming as full time employment. It was also kind of in the process of being passed from one generation to the next, so the new generation wasn't exactly sure what they were going to do with it, organizationally. But it was fun, the tour guide was really nice, let us all have little yellow cherry tomatoes straight from the vine (yummy!) and meet all the farm animals up close and personal. The pigs were cool, but the goats were the best! They were about 4 months old, and as soon as they heard us coming they came RUNNING over to meet us! He said they love people. So we went in the pen with them and gave them some lovin.
At that point the tours were over, so we headed home and finished up the last minute preparation for our little shin dig. Luckily the food wasn't too complicated; everyone pitched in and brought ingredients for greek- hummus, pita bread, sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, tzaziki sauce, sprouts, etc. I made falafel, a raw baklava, hello dollies, and a spinach artichoke dip. It was pretty casual, everyone just chit chatted around the food for a while (I made everyone introduce themselves at the beginning and felt like I was in Korea all over again haha). After eating, we busted out the games. We played a couple of round of Catchphrase, always a great group game, and then a round of Scribblish. Afterwards, people slowly started helping me clean up and then trickled out. We were so happy, one of the couples brought their dog, a beagle mix, and I had warned them Gromit may not get along with her, but they did great! They were rolling around on the floor and chasing and nibbling each other the whole time! So happy we can all be friends :)
Yesterday was a very social day for us! We decided to plan a get together for the young adults in the church. We had pockets of people that knew each other, and it's really hard for all of us to coordinate our schedules to all see each other at church every week, so I decided a get together was in order so that we could all meet and get to know each other better. Plus, parties are just fun. 
However, after we planned it, one of our friends told us that there was a farm tour event going on the same day which they were going to and invited us to come. So to the farms we went! There were 14 farms participating, we made it to 3 :) You drive around to different farms in the area and they have events, tours, samples :) , etc. First stop- creamery (ice cream samples!) . This was the same creamery that we had been buying cheese from all summer at the farmer's market, so we were excited. This time however, we bought something we'd been meaning to try all summer- their cinnamon spice butter! Now normally I am NOT a butter person. I basically only use it for baking. But this sounded too good too pass up. I figured we'd find some use for it. We had it on crepes this morning with sliced banana, and it was delicious! I can't wait to try it on french toast! We got to meet the cows that made it all possible, even 3 baby day old calves!
Then it was on to the next farm. After getting slightly lost, we finally found Hedlin Family Farm. They had races with vegetable cars for the kids, lots of produce for purchase, and a hayride farm tour. It was pretty cool, it was around 100 years old; their family had come from Holland and had been here farming so long they had everything down to a very well organized system. 
The last stop on our farm tour was La Conner Flat Farm. It was kinda the complete opposite of Hedlin in that while they were both quite old, La Conner was more like hobby farming instead of farming as full time employment. It was also kind of in the process of being passed from one generation to the next, so the new generation wasn't exactly sure what they were going to do with it, organizationally. But it was fun, the tour guide was really nice, let us all have little yellow cherry tomatoes straight from the vine (yummy!) and meet all the farm animals up close and personal. The pigs were cool, but the goats were the best! They were about 4 months old, and as soon as they heard us coming they came RUNNING over to meet us! He said they love people. So we went in the pen with them and gave them some lovin. 
At that point the tours were over, so we headed home and finished up the last minute preparation for our little shin dig. Luckily the food wasn't too complicated; everyone pitched in and brought ingredients for greek- hummus, pita bread, sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, tzaziki sauce, sprouts, etc. I made falafel, a raw baklava, hello dollies, and a spinach artichoke dip. It was pretty casual, everyone just chit chatted around the food for a while (I made everyone introduce themselves at the beginning and felt like I was in Korea all over again haha). After eating, we busted out the games. We played a couple of round of Catchphrase, always a great group game, and then a round of Scribblish. Afterwards, people slowly started helping me clean up and then trickled out. We were so happy, one of the couples brought their dog, a beagle mix, and I had warned them Gromit may not get along with her, but they did great! They were rolling around on the floor and chasing and nibbling each other the whole time! So happy we can all be friends :)
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