Healthy Living in Sequim

Healthy Living in Sequim

Hi, everyone, the Sequimers are back. Last time, we mentioned the great outdoors in the Sequim area, which will be addressed all through our Sequim Town Blog, as that topic is much too big to be covered with one or two posts. What else attracted us to the Olympic Peninsula and Sequim in particular?

Sequim town and area is Berry Country

There are lots of organic farms and regular farms, which grow all kinds of berries during green season in addition to vegetables and other fruits. We tasted the first berries when we came visiting here last you end of September…sweet ripe blackberries everywhere! One did not even have to go to a farm. When you pick wild berries, just make sure that it is in an area where the country does not spray with weed controlling pesticides. Most places are safe to pick berries in Sequim.

Berries at the Sequim Supermarkets are not cheap. However, there are a lot of farms, which promote U-Pick all through the harvesting season. We just did a search in Google and there they were, nicely listed with address and hours and what berries at what months. We started picking berries with strawberries in early May, a month or so later the first raspberries were ripening (sometimes we went 2x a week for picking) and blueberries, which have become in the past few years a berry favorite with their most antioxidants content, followed soon. We were in berry heaven.

We picked the last blueberries a week ago. Checked yesterday with our favorite berry farm Graysmarsh Farm but all the blueberries were gone, as the farm had opened their fields for free picking and the birds picked probably the leftovers. Well, luckily there are tons of blackberries around us. They taste great and make a healthy food too. Again, if you have any questions, leave us a comment right here on our blog. You may also email us. We are happy to answer your Sequim questions. Stay healthy. The Sequimers
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Last remark for today about Sequim farms. A recent tendency shows that quite a number of farms got sold and turned into land for building houses or condos by developers. Old time Sequimers are not happy about this trend, not only that Sequim will lose its resources for farm produce but it will also lose its lovely small town ambience, which is the reason why people live here.