Tree Swallow Farm

Tree Swallow Farm We are a Loyal Heights family of 25 yrs. Tree Swallow Farm is our 16 acre restoration farm in Chehalis.

Pop-up this Saturday, September 5, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday, Sunday, Monday Honor TableWere still in the thick of it, s...
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

Pop-up this Saturday, August 29, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday, Sunday, Monday Honor TableOnce again…..Tomatoes, tomatoes, t...
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

Pop-up this Saturday, August 22, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor TablePreamble, again…..Tomatoes, tomatoes, t...
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

Pop-up this Saturday, August 15, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor TablePreamble…..Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes...
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!

Pop-up this Saturday, August 8, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor TableQuick note before we start the newslette...
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!

Pop-up this Saturday, August 1, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor TableTomato season has officially begun! Not ...
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!

Pop-up this Saturday, July 25, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor TableHot hot hot at the farm this week…..upper...
07/22/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, July 25, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Hot hot hot at the farm this week…..upper 90s for sure! Luckily our dear friend Teri came down to give the baby orchard a soaking. I haven’t mastered the fruit growing as well as the veggies and flowers yet but I will persist!

She also helped me harvest garlic and estimated we pulled about 500 heads, with more to pull next week. They will go on drying racks but I’ll have some beautiful heads this week. So, start sending in your best garlic forward recipes!

The heat gave a boost to a few veggies. So, I’ll have a smattering of eggplant and green beans (that’s if I decide to share them….We made a Nicoise salad with the first handful and they were sooo tender and delicious.)

And….drum roll please……the first tomatoes have arrived! We’ll only have a few boxes this week, but if all goes well we should have a bumper crop this year. So don’t fret if we’re sold out when you come by on Saturday…..I’ve planted 120 tomato plants from cherries to heirloom beefsteaks and the season is just beginning!

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

Salad greens
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Carrots
Potatoes
Onions
Garlic
First of the green beans!
First of the tomatoes!
Herbs: Basil, oregano, mint
Bouquets and sunflowers

07/16/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, July 18, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Well, we got lots done on the off week. New beds of carrots, lettuce, zucchini, beans and sunflowers are all planted, and the fall and winter beds are prepped for radicchio, beets and winter greens. The garlic is finally ready to harvest so you’ll be enjoying fresh garlic this week and throughout the summer, and I pulled a few of my Italian heirloom onions to go with them. The carrots are coming in strong and LOVING the tall raised beds that Brian installed for my birthday (thank you, Brian!) They are squarely out of mole, vole and rabbit reach so a bountiful harvest is at hand!

And I don’t want to jinx myself by saying this, but maybe only another week for some early tomatoes?

I was taking one of my daily walks around the property with my Merlin bird identification app in hand as usual, and I realized that maybe some folks are unfamiliar with the whole mission of Tree Swallow Farm. Brian and I bought the property about 5 1/2 years ago . It borders the Chehalis River but had otherwise been clear-cut and overtaken by invasive species. We started the farm as a way to help subsidize the land and habitat restoration. Since we’ve restored the wetlands and planted the native trees, shrubs and flowers, the land has become an amazing bird habitat. Here’s a list from just this week:

American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Robin
Bald eagle
Barn Swallow
Bewick’s Wren
Black headed grosbeak
Cedar Waxwing
Cliff Swallow
Common Yellowthroat
Dark-eyed Junco
House Sparrow
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Orange-crowned Warbler
Pine Siskin
Redwing blackbird
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Spotted towhee
Steller’s Jay
Swainson’s Thrush
Violet-green Swallow
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow-rumped Warbler

25 individual species! Such a wonder to see and be around. Feel free to ask us any questions about the restoration effort if you come to the stand or via email. We’re happy to talk about it.

Hope to see you Saturday!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Salad greens
Kale
Carrots
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Onions
Potatoes
Garlic
Herbs: Basil, dill, mint
Bouquets and sunflowers

Pop-up this Saturday, July 4, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor TableHappy 4th of July week!We will have lots o...
07/02/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, July 4, 9am - 1pm - Plus Saturday and Sunday Honor Table

Happy 4th of July week!

We will have lots of farm goodies for your holiday cookouts, so do be sure to stop on by! It’s the last week for snap peas and shelling peas. Always sad to see the end of that season, but the summer veggies are coming on strong and that will ease the pain. (I’m whispering encouraging words to my 120 tomato plants that actually have tomatoes already. Keep your fingers crossed for 75 degrees and sun for a few weeks for prime ripening weather!)

I’ll try to be extra festive this week for your holiday plans. I’ve harvested red, white and blue potatoes for fun holiday baskets. Hopefully I can even pull together matching bouquets!

Finally, a quick note. We will be closed the following week, the 11th. Along with making sure all the summer beds are planted and mulched for the hot summer ahead, I’m also prepping and planting beds for fall and winter crops . We’ll take the week to get the farm in shape while the weather hopefully warms and gets those beans, cukes, zukes and tomatoes going!

Hope to see you Saturday and have a great holiday weekend!

Jenny and Brian
7707 28th Ave NW

This Week’s Offerings

Snap peas
Shelling peas
Salad greens
Carrots
Potatoes
Spring onions
Early garlic
Zucchini
Parsley, dill, basil, savory
Bouquets and sunflowers

Pop-up this Saturday, June 20, 9am - 1pm - Note: No Honor Table on SundayHello Everyone! Well, the adventures never end ...
06/17/2026

Pop-up this Saturday, June 20, 9am - 1pm - Note: No Honor Table on Sunday

Hello Everyone!

Well, the adventures never end on the farm. I looked out the window first thing in the morning and spot what looks like a deer in the field across the stream. I was about to throw my boots on over my pajamas and make a mad dash to chase it away (even though the crops and orchard are fenced in now, they do love to eat up all the little saplings we’ve planted in our restoration work!). But, something stopped me. It seemed hunched over and still and there was something next to it. So I grabbed my binoculars and, sure enough, it looked like it had just given birth and was licking its new fawn! I was dying to get a closer look, but I of course stayed clear of that field.

As a farmer and a habitat restorer, the deer cause us all kinds of grief, but as a human, it was pretty special to witness that moment.

Thankful for all the moments of wonder the farm gives us in the midst of the hard work,

All the best,

Jenny and Brian

7707 28th Ave NW

Reminder: This week we will only have honor table after 1pm on Saturday and will not have items available on Sunday.

This Week’s Offerings

Salad Mix
Kale
Snap Peas
Spring Onions
Garlic Scapes
Rhubarb
Herbs: Dill, Summer Savory, and Oregano
Spring Flowers
Sofi Soap

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7707 28th Avenue NW
Seattle, WA
98117

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