Hello, all   We have been quiet for a long time. This Pandemic has taken its toll on our farming communities. We on the farm have been quiet too. Eaglemount farmers have not joined the local farmers market for over a year. We have not been selling plants or teaching in the community.  Ellen has been teaching about plants that heal with the local Jefferson County Herbalist Guild.

Along with the co-founder of that group, Kitti Delong, we have held zoom sessions that included teaching and sharing about plant propagation, harvest, foraging, tincturing, and other methods of making healing solutions from plants. We have also been offering general support to our community of plant lovers.  If you would like to be part of our zoom teaching, please look up the Facebook page for Herbalist Guild of Jefferson County, Washington.

In the meantime. we are getting ready for the opening of the Jefferson County Farmers Market. We will only be present at the Sunday Chimacum Market with is held in the parking lot of the Chimacum Farmstand. We hope to see you there starting in April.

Our market booth with include herb plants, hazelnut trees, and native shrubs such as Blue elderberry and Twinberry. We will be adding more plants as they ripen throughout the season. Stay Tuned.

Ellen will be including her very popular children’s book series called “The Collies of Chimacum Valley”. She has three books in the works.

One is published called: “The adventures of Thunder the Wonder Puppy”.

Her second book in the series is about to be published. The new book is called “Old Ben” and is about a border collie that is brought to the Chimacum Valley in the early 1960’s from Eastern Washington. Ben is purchased from the Basque Community and has several adventures trying to learn to be a herding dog. The series is about local farming and how these beautiful dogs are so much a part of the farming scene in Chimacum Valley.

And last, Ellen is working on creating a 1000-piece puzzle that she will illustrate. It is a composite illustration of several of the Border Collies that work on local farms or have lived here during their lifetimes.

You can check out her other children’s books, puzzles and cards by going to her website at Ellen O’Shea Storyteller

Ellen has kept busy during this long winter walk. Norm has been helping people in the community to keep their farms and operations running. He is quite a skilled “Mr. Fixit”

We welcome the coming Farmers market season so we can see all our