Northwest Fishing Reports

I dont know how well this will work but for now I've been going to Yakama almost every other weekend.I like buying local produce grown by our own local farms.I try to buy this way thus helping out our own Northwesterners.
While in Yakama last week I found great salad onions,wonderful peas.Both Snow Peas, English Shelling,and Snap peas.I also bought some young fresh picked garlic that was very good.It was the end of Asparagus but still good.Im going this weekend again and will keep y'all posted of whats going on veggie wise.
I hope others chime in with tips on where to buy local fresh produce.Im still trying to find strawberries.While everyone is out fishing and you see something looking good let us all know.
Good luck everyone.Schools out so be careful out on the roads.Have fun and be safe.

I have some friends that participate in local CO-OPs. You buy a share at the beginning of the season and you get your share of the foods as they become mature. Only problem is you can end up with drawers full of what ever is growing the best and slim pickings on the crops that dont do so well. All in all, he says its a killer deal. Check out this web site for some growers near you. - http://www.localharvest.org/

Great site for finding local produce and farmers markets.

Anyone know where to get some good Sweet Onions? Love those on the grill to accompany fish....

Yakima Sam!!! They have grillin onions which are inmature yellow onions .They are great for the grill.Had some last night.I'm heading to Yakima Saturday .If you want some Sam I'd bring you back some.

Sam Kafelafish wrote:Anyone know where to get some good Sweet Onions? Love those on the grill to accompany fish....

If you are up for a drive Walla Walla sweets are the best sweet onions this world over


If you are over in Eastern Washington there is a really good place up in Loon Lake that sells hot house tomatoes.....I cant for the life of me remember their business name....they are friends of the family even lol.....i think its Old Stage Road Tomatoes...

Whenever we are in downtown Seattle we always take a cooler with us to bring back food from the Pike's Place Market

I bought me a 25 lb of Walla Walla onions on Saturday in Yakama.I grill onion rings till they carmalize.They are so sweet I grill them plain,then smother my burger or steak with them.The other onion I get is a inmature white onion which are great for salads.
Update on Yakama produce.Onions,peas,green beans,yellow beans,picklin cukes and slicing cukes are up and ready,beets,okra,zuccinnis. All are up and for sale in the local stands on the Reservation.

I lost most of my local produce. The kind I had growing in my back yard. A few weeks ago the temp dropped lower than I thought, and most all my garden payed for it. I had beets, spinach and swiss chard about 1 1/2 inches tall that was going to seed. So, last Saturday I had to dig it all up and re-plant. Bummer.

Nice lil garden you got there Joe

Thanks,
I have three different kinds of lettuce including Romaine. I have radishes, beets, zuccinni, corn, Walla Walla sweet onions, white chard, rhubarb chard and pole beans. My wife has cucumbers and 2 kinds of tomatoes in another part of the yard. We should start getting tomatoes and radishes in 2-3 weeks. The rest of everything will be coming in sometime around Sep.1. I hope it works this time.

This is great.This is what I like to see.I will try to post some of my garden as well.I do whats called Edible landscaping.I too grow rhubarb 6 different tomatoes cukes,zukes ,onions and beets.Gardening canning and getting to see your finnished products on the shelf is a great feeling.I do go east alot for certain things that on the westside are hard to grow,ie...corn,okra,melons,and asparagi.
Nice raised beds Lotech.You got a nice garden.I compost with horse manure that I pick up at a friends or Emerald downs.Horse is good to compost with ,it dosent need much maturing.I dont do alot of the lettuce and spinach anymore or chard cuz it has high ammounts of vit.K..
Happy gardening to all.Are we invided for salad Joe?

My entire backyard is concrete, so everything I grow is in homemade self-watering earthboxes.
French pole beans, pickling cukes, garlic, tomato's and watermelon in the greenhouse.
Crappy cold weather killed the first planting of cukes and finally did in the cantalope in the greenhouse.
Hopefully will be able to put up at least 30 quarts of dill pickles by the end of summer. :chef:
Bill

Just before you get to Yakima, coming from Seattle, there is a fruit stand on the last curve on I 82 that has a big sign that says Aplets and Coplets. Stop by there and check out their produce. They have a lot of canned veggies as well. They have some pickled spicy mushrooms and they are the best tasting little dudes I have ever had. I can eat a whole jar in one sitting. Sometimes when I go to the coast, I stop by to get a jar and enjoy them on the road. Pretty neat little stand.

I really really like this fruit stand called Tonemakers. It's about 15 minutes west of Potholes. I visited them last September and bought a ton of fruit (the best I've ever tasted). They had varrities of asian pears that I'd never seen before. They're super friendly, there prices and selection (during season) simply cannot be beat, and they let you sample as much as you want (they sliced apart a watermellon last year to let me taste the different sections then gave me the watermellon which was 95% intact/uneaten).

I was over there last weekend (I was shooting from Potholes to Soap Lake) and stopped by to see what they had in the way of cherries. I ended up buying $40 of organic Chelan cherries (the breed, not the location, they're grown on-farm) at $1.80 a pound. They were super generous and threw in a few more pounds of cherries because some (like 1 in 50) were bird-eaten. I gave away and ate close to ten pounds, and canned he rest. If you're out that way during the harvest season do yourself a favor and check them out. Feel free to pm me for more info or directions!

Hey Crappiemaster.If youre talking about the Atomic Shrooms enjoy them while you can.They are made in Tri-Cities area and the people stopped production on them.The name of that stand is "Precision Fruit Company".The hot mushrooms are killa and its very possible to eat a jar in a sitting.Hehehe.

Oh no!! Are you kidding me? Racfish, you are the bearer of bad news!! I love those things. I am going to have to get off work early and go stock up. I am offficialy in panic mode....

I bought a jar of all their stuff.Its all so good.It broke my heart to hear theyre going out of business.