Managers of Heyday Farm to speak at Bainbridge Island Woman’s Club

Published 11:54 am Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The Bainbridge Island Woman’s Club will host the managers for Heyday Farm at the club’s meeting this week.

Alice and Craig Skipton came to Bainbridge in 2009.

Before that, they lived in Seattle — where Craig worked as a landscape architect and Alice was self-employed in writing and public relations for foundations and nonprofits — with their two children, four laying hens and an ample garden that had taken root in a once-paved planter strip.

After renting on Bainbridge, they got to know other farmers, grew more of their own food, and created a business plan that detailed what a successful full-time farm effort might look like.

They founded Heyday Farm in the spring of 2011, and the couple’s 25-acre family farm includes a farmhouse, farm kitchen, micro-creamery, gardens, greenhouses, and pastures for animals. It is an authentic working farm that strives to increase the number of people who honor the land and the sustenance it provides.

They grow and sell farm fresh food and offer farm experiences, cooking classes, field to table events, and professional and family retreats for the Bainbridge Island community, and visitors who want to understand, experience and celebrate our region and the food it produces.

The Bainbridge Island Woman’s Club will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20 at Bethany Lutheran Church, 7968 Finch Road.

For more information, visit www.biwomensclub.org.