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Tree Swallow Farm, 7707 28th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA (2026)

09/30/2026

Last Pop-up this Saturday, October 3, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Our last official weekend! It has been a wonderful season. The days are long and the w**ds endless, but the encouragement and support of the community this year has been such a restorative boost. I love feeling like we’ve become the neighborhood corner store, where people wander by the honor table on a Sunday afternoon and pick up a last minute bouquet or head of garlic for the week. We treasure our faithful weekly customers and welcome all the new folks we’ve met this year. So, thank you very much.

I can’t imagine this will be the last you’ll hear from us this year…my greens, carrots and beets are coming in strong so I might have some upcoming announcements. But in the meantime, we’ll have a full spread this weekend to stock you up for a bit. Also, some of you have been asking about my little pumpkins. Sadly, my winter squash field was a big disappointment this year, so I don’t have much at the moment. Luckily, however, our neighbor Bev has been growing some gourds with her grandkids, and her grandson has asked if I can sell his harvest for him at our stand. So you’ll have some autumnal goodies to get your fall decor going!

Hope to see you this weekend and that the fall treats you well.

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Some tomato seconds
Potatoes
Green beans and Romano beans
Carrots
Zucchini
Peppers
Eggplant
Salad greens
Chard
Kale
Arugula
Italian red onions
Garlic
Baby daikon radishes

Herbs:
Parsley, and chives

Gorgeous bouquets
Ornamental gourds

Sofi Soap

09/24/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, September 26, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday, Sunday, and Monday Honor Table

Another jam packed week! Thursday’s site visit with the Natural Resources Conservation Service folks went well. They were particularly interested in the streambed /riparian corridor we’d been clearing of invasive blackberries and reed grass and gave us some good tips on how to tackle restoring that in steps ….perhaps seeing that sometimes we bite off more than we can chew! They will also put together some proposals that might help us with funding for native plants or other pieces of our projects. Any support will be welcome!

Then Brian and I got away for a couple of days camping outside of Winthrop. The weather was ideal and the birdlife was amazing and inspirational. That meant I got to the farm later than usual, which gave the zucchini time to REALLY size up—so get your zucchini bread and zucchini noodle recipes ready!

The tomatoes continue to be on the way out, but it’s actually a fun time for summer peppers and eggplant along with fall greens, so you’ll have lots to choose from on Saturday. And this is our second-to-last weekend, so don’t miss out! Also, for the last newsletter next week I’d love to run a mini customer cookbook , so please send a recipe (with pictures if possible) of your favorite dish you’ve cooked with Tree Swallow Farm produce this year.

Hope to see you Saturday,
Jenny and Brian

7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings:

Tomato boxes and seconds
Potatoes
Green beans and Romano beans
Carrots
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Shish*to peppers
Sweet peppers
Eggplant
Salad greens
Chard
Kale
Arugula
Onions
Shallots
Garlic
Bev’s Bees apples

Herbs:
Basil and chives (for your potatoes!)

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

Sofi Soap

09/17/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, September 19, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Busy week at the farm! Our indispensable friend and volunteer Terri came down to help clean up summer beds to prep for fall garlic planting in October. In addition, we are scheduled to spend Thursday with representatives from the Natural Resources Conservation Service and USFWS who are interested in our work on oak prairie and wetland restoration and want to discuss how we can coordinate our efforts with their ongoing projects. I’ll give you an update on that next week.

And finally, in looking at crops on hand and upcoming weather, we’ve set a last date for the season of October 3. Though, we might have mini popups and/or harvest boxes throughout the end of fall and winter. We’ll keep you posted on that and please reach out if you have any questions!

In the meantime, there are still lots of delicious veggies to be had. The tomatoes are winding down, but I’m getting the first flush of healthy fall greens so I’ll bring a sample of arugula, pak choi, Swiss chard and kale for Saturday. I’m counting on these last sunny days to color up the peppers and the beans came in like gangbusters this week so enjoy those while they last.

To those who have been enjoying our Honor Table—thank you. This week we’ll have a hard shutdown on Sunday night instead of Monday so that Brian and I can actually go camping for a couple of days. So stock up by sundown Sunday!

See you Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Green beans
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Peppers
Eggplant
Arugula
Kale
Swiss chard
Pak Choi
Garlic
Onions
Bev’s Bees apples

Herbs:
Basil, parsley, chives

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

Sofi Soap

09/10/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, September 12, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday, Sunday, Monday Honor Table

We had a lovely week on the farm. We flew our wonderful daughter-in-law out from Delaware so she could give Brian a master class in maintaining all the various small engines we’ve acquired for the farm and tuned up all the machinery in the barn. Then, in her spare time, she used some tomatoes, onions and eggplant from the garden to fix me a Tortang Talong, a Filipino eggplant omelet. I love to have new dishes to add to my tomato and eggplant repertoire! And, finally, we are already seeing payoff from having the vernal stream bank stripped of the invasive blackberries and the past two weeks of effort to w**d whack the dense, invasive reed canary grass. That work revealed whole areas of the stream where beavers had dammed so that there was still water. And this morning, the largest heron I’ve ever seen had found it and made it his new hunting grounds. Only took a week!

All is well on the growing front, though I’m a little disappointed we won’t have many peppers and eggplants this week. They are coloring up verrrrry slowly….I guess it was a cooler summer than I had thought. The fall greens are coming in….I’ll have a few samples this week but more abundant supply in the coming weeks. That, said, a special treat this week is organic Honey Crisp apples! Our neighbor Bev (of Bev’s Bees) has a home orchard much farther along than our puny one and is generously allowing us to share.

So enjoy and we’ll see you Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Green beans
Romano beans
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Eggplant
Salad greens
Misc. greens
Carrots
Garlic
Onions
Apples

Herbs:
Basil, parsley, chives

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

Bev’s Bees Honey and Sofi Soap

09/03/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, September 5, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday, Sunday, Monday Honor Table

Were still in the thick of it, so…reminder for tomatoes and flowers. :-)

Happy Labor Day Weekend! It looks as if the rain will clear before it puts a damper on any weekend barbecue plans. I always welcome rain down at the farm, but I did rush to get a big tomato harvest in before any downpours. Those delicious beauties are rather thin skinned and object to lots of rain on their delicate complexions! Note: We’re at that time of the year where we’re starting to have tomato seconds - some that are blemished and some were picked just the week prior. We won’t have them out on display, but if any of you are interested, please email us and we can sell them by the pound for sauces.

In addition, we’ll have lots of goodies for your weekend cooking plans. Along with the tomatoes we’ll offer up some potato boxes and a couple varieties of onions, as well as our usual cukes and zukes and green beans, etc.

I’m waiting for the sun’s return to get my beautiful peppers to ripen up more….on the other hand, the cool weather has been a gift to my fall greens, so I bet we’ll have some kale, arugula and bok choy making an appearance in the next couple weeks.

Enjoy the weekend and see you on Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Green beans
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Eggplant
Salad greens
Carrots
Potatoes
Garlic
Onions
Shallots

Herbs:
Basil, parsley, dill heads, mint, chives

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

Bev’s Bees Honey and Sofi Soap

08/27/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, August 29, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday, Sunday, Monday Honor Table

Once again…..Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! And, flowers, flowers, flowers! Need we say more? :-) Please spread the word. Reminder of Saturday and Sunday honor table all day until dusk. Also, in the past few weeks, the bumper crops have had us putting out remaining items (mostly tomatoes, garlic, onions, and bouquets) on sale on Mondays as well. So If you can’t make it on the weekend, or want to come back for more, check in on Monday.

The slow stillness of late summer has settled into the farm. It’s very quiet except for the Steller’s jays and California scrub jays who have returned and brought their shrill, perpetually aggrieved shrieks with them! Even the frogs are napping, which I found when I went to cut some willow branches one morning and found a little colony of teeny frogs open-air snoozing on the willow leaves.

The big push now is keeping up with the harvest and watering while continuing to get the fall crops planted. The tomatoes and cukes and zukes are pumping out fruit and I harvested the first shallots of the season. So, get your gourmet recipes ready! We will have a few more samplers of the shish*to peppers, but the other peppers are still a week or two away from fully coloring up. In the meantime, enjoy the bounty that is late August on the farm!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Green Beans
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Eggplant
Salad greens
Carrots
Shish*to peppers (just a few sampler portions!)
Garlic
Onions
Shallots

Herbs:
Basil, parsley, dill heads
Oregano and mint by request

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

Bev’s Bees Honey and Sofi Soap

08/20/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, August 22, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Preamble, again…..Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! And, flowers, flowers, flowers! We are in the height of harvest and it will only be this strong for a few more weeks. Tell your neighbors, family, and friends to come by and get their fill of beauty and deliciousness. And, reminder of Saturday and Sunday honor table all day until dusk.

More projects on the farm! The end of summer is when we need to get our ducks in a row for the fall and winter restoration projects. Brian and I have been so appreciative of the community response to our farm stand this year, and that financial support is allowing us to get moving on some decidedly unglamorous but absolutely critical land work. This week your support allowed us to hire our neighbor with an excavator to dig out almost 500 feet of invasive Himalayan blackberry that was choking out the vernal stream bank. Now that the area is clear, we can come back in the winter and plant native willows, chokecherries, cascara, spirea, dogwood, Oregon ash, and, my absolute favorite, elderberry. Riparian habitats like stream banks are some of the most critical and most endangered habitat, so transforming that ecosystem will be a huge step in our restoration efforts!

Hope to see you Saturday and let us know if you have questions about what we’re growing or our restoration.

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Green Beans
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Eggplant
Salad greens
Carrots
Shish*to peppers (just a few sampler portions!)
Garlic
Onions

Herbs:
Basil, parsley, dill heads
Oregano, and mint by request

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

Bev's Bees honey and Sofi soap

08/13/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, August 15, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Preamble…..Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! We had a bunch last week and will have even more delicious ones this week. Tell your neighbors, family, and friends to come by and get their fill while we’re in the height of the season. And, again, don’t forget Saturday and Sunday honor table all day until dusk.

It was a quiet week on the farm this week. I’m not sure if some birds are starting to migrate or everything is taking a breather after the hot weather. Regardless, as usual, there was lots to do. The tomatoes were groaning on the vines but the shorter days were reminding me that I needed to get the fall and winter gardens in. I transplanted my radicchio and bok choy seedlings and direct seeded four types of beets, daikon radish, cilantro, mustard, arugula, chard and salad greens. If I want a harvest this fall, everything needs to size up before the Persephone days (about November 1 around here) and the lack of daylight halts plant growth.

Brian and I are going to sneak away for a few hours to check out the Southwest Washington County Fair tonight. It’s always fun to see what the 4 H kids around here are up to and take a gander at the veggie and flower competitions. (I swear next year I’ll enter!) Bev of Bev’s Bees Honey headed up the honey judging this year. She’s been working on extracting all day today. So, hopefully, she’ll have some honey ready for us to sell this weekend!

Hope to see you Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!
Salad greens
Carrots
Green beans
Romano beans
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Eggplant (a few)
Italian red onions
Garlic

Herbs:
Basil
Pickling dill, parsley, oregano, and mint by request

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

08/06/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, August 8, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Quick note before we start the newsletter: We just wanted to remind everyone about the honor table. This time of year when the produce and flowers are plentiful, we almost certainly will have remaining items available for honor table on Sunday - especially tomatoes, garlic, onions, and for sure, bouquets! And, often even more. So, If you can’t make it Saturday, don’t think Sunday isn’t worth the trip. The harvest is bountiful!

It’s hot hot hot down here at the farm! Luckily the goldfinches have found all the water stations I’ve set up for them (kind of hoping that if they stay hydrated they won’t keep eating all my baby salad greens!) The tree swallows have moved on but barn swallows, cliff swallows and violet green swallows are converging in vast numbers over the ponds, staying cool and skimming for bugs. I found the baby deer twins in the only dried up pond early this morning….not quite sure what they were doing there but maybe the grass is juicier there?!

Lots of delicious tomatoes this week as well as some of practically everything else. I think the heat and smoke will start clearing out by this weekend, so grab yourself a couple boxes of tomatoes and a sunflower bouquet and enjoy a fabulous summer picnic!

Hope to see you Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Salad greens
Carrots
Green beans
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Eggplant (a few)
Italian red onions
Garlic

Herbs:
Basil
Dill, parsley, oregano, and mint by request

Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

07/29/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, August 1, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Tomato season has officially begun! Not all varieties have begun ripening of course, but we’ll have more boxes than last week and it will only get more bountiful from here. Given that tomatoes are our most requested item, I thought I’d take a moment to do a deep dive on our tomato growing for those who are interested in this delicious subject!

How do I choose which varieties to grow?

The reason why a backyard or local farm tomato is always going to taste better than a supermarket tomato is because we can grow for taste, taste, taste. We don’t have to select for pretty but tasteless varieties that can withstand thousand mile shipping and long supermarket refrigeration.

However, I’m also in love with the beautiful array of colors that make a salsa or Caprese tray so lovely, and the different taste profiles that red, yellow, orange, and purple varieties bring. And finally, I appreciate tomatoes that can be used for a variety of purposes, from salsas to salads to sandwiches to sauce.

So with those criteria in mind, I’ve trialed dozens of varieties from local seed companies (Territorial, Adaptive, Deep Harvest, Uprising) that meet those criteria as well as being suited to our very particular climate, are disease resistant, and are productive. I start them by seed, put them out in the field early with protection, and then let them ripen on the vine for maximum flavor. If Mother Nature cooperates, the glory that is tomato season begins!

Starting this week we’ll profile a “Tomato of the Week “ so you can identify the tomatoes in your box and maybe find a couple you’d like to try growing yourself.

As always, drop us a line if you have a question, special request or recipe to share. We love to hear from you!

Hope to see you Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Tomatoes
Salad greens
Carrots
Green Beans
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Onions
Garlic
Herbs: Basil, oregano, mint
Gorgeous bouquets and sunflowers!

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