In the News
Recent news about us or the farm:
September 14, 2011 – KUOW Presents
Too Chicken to Pay for Chicken: The Financial Dilemma of Sustainable Meat
By Megan Sukys
There are a lot of choices you can make to support a green economy and local food, but those choices aren’t necessarily cheap. Local chef and writer Greg Atkinson built his career advocating seasonable, sustainable cooking. Yet, as he prepares to open his own restaurant for the first time, he frets about paying $25 for a farm–fresh chicken.
Recently, though, he spent a week at the Quillisascut teaching farm in Rice, Washington. While he was there, the environmentally conscious approach to animal raising reminded him why it’s worth the cost. And, he found a new way to approach his cooking to accommodate his budget and ethics.
Listen here:
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=24516
July 14, 2011 – Soundfood
Heyday Farm Brings New Life to Historic Island Farmland
Written by Carolyn Goodwin
Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:22
Oh, the changes Horace’s tree has seen.
Seventy-odd years ago it would have watched as Horace and Nellie Winney built a house and barns beneath its shadow as they created Winney Farm. Now it will oversee another young couple’s efforts to bring the land back to life, reincarnated as Heyday Farm.
Read full article here:
http://www.soundfood.org/sfcommunity/sflocalfood-/326-heyday-farm-bainbridge.html
March 4, 2011 – Bainbridge Island Review
Old house gets new life on Old Mill Road
By DENNIS ANSTINE
Bainbridge Island Review Editor
Mar 04 2011
Moving a house is never as easy as a house mover makes it appear, but there are exceptions.
There were a few scary moments Thursday for architect Steve Romein and others involved in the uprooting of a century-old house from the New Sweden area to its new home.
Read full article here:
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/bir/news/117371493.html
March 4, 2011 – Kitsap Sun
Saving Bainbridge Island history, one building and farm at a time
By Tristan Baurick
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Steve Romein wanders wide-eyed through a dark, cobwebbed barn while hail pounds its rusted roof.
He points out the feed troughs, the milking stalls and marvels at the old wiring and bark-covered beams. He breathes in deep, catching a barely discernible whiff of manure and hay.
“It reminds me of home,” he says.
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January 13, 2011 – Kitsap Sun
Profit Isn’t Primary for Developer of Former Farm on Bainbridge Island
By Tristan Baurick
An old boat and barn are some of the remnants left on the historic Otto Peterson farm property now undergoing redevelopment on Bainbridge Island’s south end. Rather than subdivide or build new houses, the new owner, Steve Romein, plans to restore the farm and lease it out at a low rate to young farmers. He also plans to build a public trail and restore a 114-year-old farm house so the farmers can live where they work.
Read full article here:
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/jan/13/profit-isnt-primary-for-developer-of-former-farm/