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A lifetime of experience in four classes: Linnaea’s Homegrown Series

 Linnaea Farm’s Homegrown Series kicks off at 10:00 AM this Saturday. This is a monthly series, which will be offered on March 23rd, April 20th, May 11th and June 8th, 2024. 

“I want to teach. I’ve had a lot of seasons under my belt now. 1995 was my first growing season, I was in Pemberton.  Then I did a garden program at Linnaea Farm in 1998. I just really like sharing  what I have spent a lifetime doing. I can share all these secrets. I’ve run a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) garden. I’ve done pure market gardening. I’ve done contract growing. I’ve grown food for sale in all the ways one can do it. So I can share this with anyone,” explained to Adam Schick, a resident steward at Linnaea farm on Cortes Island.

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Cortes Island farm finds new ways to get goods to market

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By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

For more than 40 years, Cortes Islanders have been relying on Linnaea Farm for organic, seasonal produce, along with beef, lamb and chickens. The 316 acre charitable land trust is overseen by the Linnaea Farm Society and includes a group of stewards who live on the property.

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