For an in-depth farm experience, join one of our workshops that features a hands-on learning experience including practical farming skills such as turning your backyard chicken into a stewing hen or how to fillet a whole salmon. Owner/Farmer Riley Starks will be teaching these workshops. If these are skills that you would be interested in learning, contact the farm and find out when classes will be held.

Filet a Salmon

Learn how to fillet a whole salmon. Riley, who filleted professionally for two years early in his career, has filleted thousands of salmon, and will unveil the mysteries of handling a whole fish. You can save money by buying a whole fish and using all of the fish, carcass, and scraps— no waste!

Cost is $100 per person. Call 360-758-7616, or email us to sign up. Workshops begin late July until September.

Butcher your own stewing hen

Learn to convert your retired backyard layer to a culinary delight, in the form of a stewing hen! Riley, who in 2000 had perhaps the only on-farm USDA poultry slaughtering facility on the West Coast, has successfully processed and marketed thousands and thousands of wonderful chickens. Allow him to show you how to humanely kill, pluck, gut, and vacuum seal your hens (or roosters!). Stewing hens can be an amazing addition to your cuisine, providing chicken so flavorful and tender you will be in heaven. We will all perform all of the steps on two birds, and watch everyone else do the same, so that at the end of the day you will feel skilled enough to deal with your own layers at home. Each participant will take home two stewing hens, a $30 value (if you could buy such a thing, which you cannot).