Our farm is a certified organic u-pick blueberry farm and a King County Farmland Preservation Program property in the Snoqualmie Valley Agricultural Production District near Carnation, Washington. Formerly a dairy, our farm has been in existence as a farm for over 100 years. Prior to European settlement, it was part of the native lands of the "People of the Moon," the Snoqualmie Valley native people.
Salmon-bearing Ames Creek, the outflow of Ames Lake, flows through our property on its way to the Snoqualmie River and then into the Snohomish River and to the Puget Sound by Everett.
We landed here in 1997, the year of our first son's birth, planting our first blueberry plants the next year and creating Blue Dog Farm. We chose all our varieties for excellent taste, not the demands of industrial food production, so we are patient with their peculiarities because of how good they are. We think they are the best blueberries in the world.
Our second son was born in 2000, and shortly after that we obtained our organic certification and sold our first blueberries to u-pick customers, which we have done ever since.
We started the membership approach in 2012 as we sought a more sustainable way to continue to sell our organic blueberries by the u-pick model. We have always loved u-picking fruit ourselves. But we needed a quieter, more personal way to open our farm each summer.
Membership u-pick doesn't appeal to everyone, we know. But that's sort of the point. You know if it's worth it to you or not.
Most sincerely,
Scott and Amy Turner
