Meet Our Farmers: Kirsop Farm

Farmer Genine and her gorgeous winter produce at the University District Farmers Market in 2019.

When you buy produce from Kirsop Farm, you are also helping to keep the Chehalis River clean.

Kirsop Farm is well known for their delicious produce, pasture-raised chicken and eggs, and strings of marigolds that they hang from their market tent each summer. Their business model and farming practices are just as intentional as their display, and perfectly match the agricultural models we love to support at the Neighborhood Farmers Markets.  

“We all eat every day. So what better way to be of use than to grow good food the best way you know how?” – Farmer Colin  

After a 20-year stint farming in Tumwater, in 2013 Farmers Genine and Colin moved their operation to 60 acres of land at the Scatter Creek Farm and Conservancy in Rochester, WA. They are anchor farmers in a project that preserves 150 acres of agricultural land and river habitat. This means that when you buy their produce, you are also helping to keep the Chehalis River clean. You are also supporting a farm that treats their animals like royalty. Farmer Colin creates their feed mix himself using grains grown right on the farm, plus a few peas grown by another nearby organic farmer. They also get lots of leftover ugly-beautiful produce. Kirsop Farm is one of the only farms in their area operating on land preserved for farming in perpetuity. You can rest easy knowing Kirsop farm is here to stay, and their land will produce some of the most delicious, ecologically neutral produce forever and ever.   

You can find Kirsop Farm year-round at the University District Farmers Market.