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Tall Clover Farm Putting in a Good Day on My Vashon Island Farm
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Violette du Bordeaux Fig or Negronne: Two Names, Same Great Fig

Tom - August 24, 2009 42

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Tom - September 8, 2010 26

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Tom - July 16, 2008 0

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Tom - October 7, 2008 26

Blacktail Mountain Watermelon: Hot Melon for a Cool Climate

Tom - October 13, 2008 22
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Clara Frijs: Best Pear You’ve Never Eaten

Tom - September 17, 2014 11
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Gus and Tom putting in a good day, learning a little along the way, and keeping it neighborly on their Vashon Island farm.

Welcome to Vashon Island, a sweet spot moored in the middle of Puget Sound, home to the quirky, the kind, and the unabashedly laid back. A stunning ferry ride from West Seattle or Tacoma, Vashon Island is just inconvenient enough to deter the impatient and cultivate the eccentric.

We live in an 1888 farmhouse on a few acres on Vashon Island in the heart of Puget Sound,  where I share projects, island life, farm duties, and the joy of growing fruit, flowers, and good food.  I embrace the beauty of the bulldog, succumb to the power of pie, worship the peach, contend summer is never long enough, and have never met a hammock I didn't like.

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