I was at the farm today and I’m proud to report I’m still on Luke’s no-bite list. In fact, Karen thinks I may possibly be on a different type of list. A very short one.

Karen discovered recently that her two ducks, Ducky and Beverly (Luke’s girls), were constructing a nest inside a large brush [...]

*He’s not food but he sure is handsome.

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My first day at the farm, before we headed out into the yard to meet the critters, Karen took a moment to caution me about Luke, her Toulouse goose. She said he’s very protective of his two “duck wives” and that I just need to [...]

Last weekend Karen said she’d been wanting to get a good picture of Maude that would show just how pregnant she is. She asked me to give it a go. The poor gal is so very pregnant and she still has a month to go. It’s kind of shocking to me. I’m contemplating taking a [...]

I’m writing this post about a month and a half into my internship at La Biondo Farm & Kitchen. Details presented here are all dug out of my [mostly crappy] memory. I couldn’t forget the lunch Karen served us on that first day however. I worked for a few hours weeding, shoveling, making plant labels, [...]

Last fall, when I was telling my friend Rachel that I was looking for a local farm that needed volunteer help during the winter, she said I should meet her friend Karen Biondo. Karen, she said, has a farm on Vashon Island and raises goats, chickens, and pigs in addition to veggies so she needs [...]