Swan Mill Farm

We’ll be at DUVALL FARMERS MARKET beginning this week, Thursday May 5th, from 3PM to 7PM. Don’t let a little drizzle keep you away!

We are stocked with a ton of Jam and Jelly, including two new flavors, Blackberry Jalapeno and Strawberry Habanero!

Our girls have been busy out in “Graceland” (Our rooster’s name is Elvis), making a beautiful rainbow of eggs for you!

PLANTS, PLANTS, PLANTS!

We heard your requests last year for HOT PEPPER PLANTS, and we listened!

This year we have TONS of culinary hot pepper varieties for sale:
*La Bomba II Jalapeno - 5,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
*Serrano - 5,000+ SHU
*Red West Indian Habanero - 300,000 - 450,000 SHU
*Early Thai - 50,000 - 100,000 SHU
*Chinese 5 Color - 5,000 - 30,000 SHU
*Jigsaw (a gorgeous varigated leaf variety!). 5,000+ SHU

Stuffers, like:
*Anaheim - 500 - 1,000 SHU
*Poblano - 1,500 - 2,500 SHU

Or stuff your spice cabinet with home dried:
*Paprika - 1,000 - 2,500 SHU
*Cayenne - 30,000 - 50,000 SHU

Want to pickle some peppers? You’ll want some
*Italian Pepperoncini - 100 - 500 SHU

You can even make your own hot sauce with our
*Tabasco peppers - 30,000 SHU

We also have a limited number of sweet peppers, including:
*Violet Sparkle Pepper
*Lipstick Pepper
*Love Apple Pimento style pepper

In addition, we’ll have an assortment of herb starts for sale, as well as raspberry bushes.

The Tomato Gods didn’t smile too kindly on us this spring, so our tomato starts are running behind. We’ll have a limited selection with us tomorrow, but expect to see a wider selection starting next week.

You may have heard a rumor that we’ll be bringing fresh bread to the market and that is true BUT… it won’t be available until after we’ve concluded our plant sales, due to space and time limitations.

SEE YOU TOMORROW! RAIN OR SHINE!!!

PEPPERS…

Last spring, when I was selling varieties of peppers that folks weren’t familiar with, like Love Apples, Sunnybrook Pimentos, and Shepherds Ram’s Horn, along with some spice peppers like Paprika and Cayenne, people would ask me how you use those peppers.

For the sweet peppers - Love Apples, Sunnybrooks, and Rams Horns, we used them just as we would bell peppers. We particularly LOVED the Love Apples - super thick walls, red through and through, deliciously sweet. These would make premium stuffers, but we ended up eating them all raw, except for the last few stragglers. The Sunnybrooks were delicious, with just a teeny bit of warmth at the end to distinguish them from a regular bell, and the Rams Horns, roasted, were stunning!

But another use for peppers, especially those with a little damage, or that have gotten a little soft or over-ripe, is to dehydrate them and turn them into… RED PEPPER FLAKES!

I did a little research, and it turns out the ubiquitous “red pepper flakes” of pizzeria fame are just that, red pepper, flaked. Although there’s a heavy lean toward cayenne, you can add in any and all other red peppers. You just dry them, seeds and all, pulse them in a food processor, and voila, red pepper flakes!

And that’s just what we did with our remaining peppers, which we’d had to pull before they were fully ripe when an early frost hit us a few weeks ago. They finished ripening, but got a little soft in the process, and I have enough frozen peppers to last an eternity (did you know raw peppers freeze very well - just chop them up and freeze - 1 cup chopped = 1 average bell pepper), so red pepper flakes it was!

WOW! Can’t believe our first season is coming to an end. I hope to see you all today at the Duvall Farmers Market for the final market day - we’ll be open from 3PM to 6:30PM (closing early so we can break down before dark!). Stop on by to pick up a jar of your favorite Swan Mill Farm Jam or Jelly - we’ll have Blueberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Plum, Strawberry Rhubarb, and Peach Raspberry available, along with the last of the season’s beautiful tomatoes.

Thank you, Duvall, for such an amazing first farm season!

VIRTUAL FARMSTAND!!!

What’s Available (see photos!):

***“Mardi Gras” filet beans - tender, sweet, stringless - great prepared your favorite way, or just eaten raw as a snack. $5 per generous package.

***”Magnolia” sugar snap peas (purple) $4/half pint
***Sweet slicing cucumbers $2 each or 2 for $3

***Heirloom Zucchini (green, green striped, yellow) $2 each or 2 for $3

***Garlic - large flavorful heads, $2 each or 3 for $5

***Red Cabbage (picked upon order) $5/head

***Collard Greens (picked upon order) $3/bundle

***Swiss Chard (picked upon order) $3/bundle

***Dino Kale (picked upon order) $3/bundle

***Sweet Pea Bouquets - Heirloom varieties that are SUPER fragrant and long lasting. The perfect addition to your breakfast table, nightstand, or anywhere you want a joyful pick-me-up! $5

***Homemade Raspberry or Blueberry Jelly $6/8 oz jar - fresh fruit from our farm, organic sugar and pectin - its like sunshine in a jar!

Schedule conflicts this week mean we won’t be able to make it to the Carnation Farmer’s Market, so we are TAKING OUR STAND ONLINE!

Free delivery in Carnation or Duvall with your order of $15 or more (orders less than $15 can be delivered for $1 fee), or you can swing by our farm to pick up your order at your convenience.

In addition to cash, we can also accept credit cards and Venmo payments. You can call your order in to (425)245-5335, or email us at [email protected].

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING LOCAL AGRICULTURE!

NEED GARDEN STARTS? HAVEN’T HAD TIME FOR A TRIP TO THE FARM???

Come see us at Duvall Farmer’s Market tomorrow (Thursday) at Taylor LANDING (I keep typing landing and my auto-correct keeps changing it to Taylor Park 🤬) between 3pm and 7pm. While you’re there, enjoy LIVE MUSIC, some delicious BBQ, delicious selections from the market’s many producers, and the beautiful wares of selected crafters. Its been an incredible two weeks so far at the market. Come be a part of it, and take your veggie starts home with you!

PLANT SALE PLUS!!!

Hey All! We are LIVE with our garden start sale - year ONE!

At Swan Mill Farm, located off Kelly Rd in Duvall, we have TONS of beautiful tomato starts, sweet pepper starts, and a lot of other veggies - cucumbers, zucchini, celery, celeriac, watermelon, and more!

We have over 30 varieties of tomatoes, with cherries, slicers, beefsteaks and cooking/canning tomatoes.

Tomato plants are $5, peppers, cukes, zucchini are $3, all others $2, or 3 for $5.

While you’re here, pick up a dozen farm fresh eggs $5, some homemade jam or jelly (Strawberry, Straw/rhubarb, blueberry, and raspberry currently available) $6 a jar, or some rhubarb $1 a stalk.

Shopping by appt Mon, Tue, Wed, Friday, Sat and Sun. On Thursdays, find us at Duvall Farmers Market! Call 425-245-5335 or PM me for address and to confirm your shopping time!

Opening Day is almost here! Join us and our fellow vendors May 6th from 3pm to 7pm at Taylor’s Landing.

Swan Mill Farm will be bringing you homemade jams and jellies, garden starts, and the first fresh veggies from our early crops.

For your breakfast table, we’ll have strawberry jam, raspberry jelly, blueberry jelly, and strawberry rhubarb jam, made with homegrown fruit.

For your lunch and supper, there will be Snow Apple (Tokyo) Turnips - a fresh eating, white turnip, radishes, rhubarb, swiss chard, and fresh herbs.

And for your garden, we’ll have a wide variety of tomato starts - several types of cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes and beefsteaks, along with a few unusual varieties for the more adventurous gardener. There may also be a few sauce/canning varieties available, though most of those are still a bit young for new homes.

We’ll also have a wide assortment of sweet pepper plants, with peppers in a variety of colors, and a limited supply of celery, celeriac, swiss chard, kale, artichokes (an annual variety that will produce this season), and other goodies.

Bring a box!

We can’t wait to see you on Thursday!

Farmer’s Market Season is almost here! Can’t wait to become part of the action!

We’ll be starting the season offering garden starts, jams and jellies, and whatever produce the garden can offer, given the recent mercurial weather!

Looking forward to seeing everyone on May 6th at Taylor Landing in Duvall, WA!

It’s the start of TOMATO SEASON! Literally!

We spent the morning getting seeds tucked into damp paper towels, labeled, and placed in a warm spot to germinate. Over the next 5-10 days, as they sprout, we’ll transfer the seeds to starter cells, and nurse those babies til they are ready to head to the garden, ours or YOURS! Keep an eye out here for plant sale dates, plus, look for garden plant starts in our booth at the Duvall Farmers Market and the Carnation Farmers Market. In addition to tomatoes, we’ll have lots of other beautiful starts to fill out your spring, summer or fall garden.

First Post! So excited to start this new adventure! Ten years ago, I couldn’t have imagined myself as a gardener, much less a farmer. Yet here I am, gray hair and all, heading into a new adventure.

I can’t wait to make sharing this passion my full time job! If you’ve ever been the beneficiary of my pushy, “Ciff Clavin”, have-some-tomato-plants enthusiasm, then you can rest easy knowing I’ve finally found a constructive outlet for all that garden love!