Author Archives: Jim Freeman

About Jim Freeman

Jim is a real estate broker and licensed loan originator in Kitsap County, WA. He is also an angel investor in a software company, a children's toy product development and sales company, a biogas energy company, a CSA member and a pastured poultry operation on an Olympic Peninsula certified organic farm. As a business owner and investor Jim knows the central importance importance of local agriculture and looks to buy local food and invest in local food producers and processors whenever possible.

Magical Music At The Harvest Meal

Joining Phillip will be a surprise special guest, Mike Saunders, Irish guitar, fiddle player and vocalist, who has played often with the Strings in past concerts. Mike was once a member of the regional famous Irish band Crumac and has entertained crowds throughout the northwest for probably as long as the Bouldings and their family. Continue reading

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Don Stuart To Speak At Harvest Meal

Don Stuart, Pacific Northwest Director of the American Farmland Trust will be the featured speaker at the KCAA Harvest Meal on Sunday, September 19th, 2010. Continue reading

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Celebrating the Harvest With Your Kitsap Producers

The Kitsap Community and Agricultural Alliance (KCAA) presents its second annual Harvest Meal on Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. It will be held in the Bremer Student Center at Olympic College, 1600 Chester, Bremerton, WA.

The Harvest Meal has great food, great music unusual fun. The food alone is worth more than the price of the ticket. The music, the time to enjoy your table mates and the chance to meet neighbors that produce fresh, healthy, local food for us all are things that you just will not be able to experience anywhere else. Continue reading

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Buy Local Radio and Tomatoes At Port Orchard Farmers Market

Attention gardeners! The Great Tomato Taste Off at the Port Orchard Farmers Market will take place on Saturday, September 11. Bring your entries to the market between 9 and 10:30 AM. Judging will be in three classes: slicing, paste/roma, and cherry. No cost to enter, no limit to the number of entries. Prizes will be awarded for each class winner with a grand prize (and bragging rights) to the overall champion. Continue reading

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Port Orchard Farmer’s Market Newsletter

This Saturday will be our last for the season. We are offering a 25% off coupon for any one item in our booth. That would include our hardy landscape fuchsias, perennials, garden decor, ornamental plantings, Faye’s vintage style jewelry, and handbags and totes. Print this email to get the coupon or simply mention that you saw the coupon in the newsletter! Continue reading

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Petersen Farm Day

I am happy to report that Petersen Farm Day was a big success! While it was rainy in the morning, the sun came out before the event and held until a few sprinkles in the closing minutes. Continue reading

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Why Festivals and Events In Kitsap Matter

What is more amazing to me is that usually the cost of local festivals is less that of a good meal at a quality restaurant and you get everything else thrown in for free. The culture and entertainment is equivalent to what many people seek on trips out of the country. Continue reading

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“Preserve the Harvest – In a Pickle’”

WSU Kitsap Extension Small Farms Team and 4H Program is pleased to announce the next class in the new Small Farms’ Food Preservation series. “In a Pickle” will instruct students on the basics of pickling and fermentation. We will cover different methods of pickling and fermenting and have a hands-on demonstration, maybe even two! Continue reading

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Buy Local Radio Celebrates The Future

This Saturday, July 31st, we will be broadcasting from the Great Peninsula Future Festival at the Kitsap Fairgrounds. The future fest is becoming a summer signature event on Kitsap County and this year they have a great musical lineup with the Cascade Mountain Boys and Marilyn Kay and Company. We will grab an interview with some of them as well as tuning into a conversation with a team from Western Washington University that is entering a competition for designing a car that gets extraordinary mileage. Continue reading

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Port Orchard Farmer’s Market Newsletter

The Alvarez Farms are at the market now, bringing zucchini, 4 varieties of potatoes, Walla Walla sweet onions, sweet corn, eggplant, green beans and roasted peanuts. Continue reading

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