What We Do
We grow and sell farm fresh food, offer farm to table events, and professional and family retreats for our island community and visitors near and far who want to understand, experience and celebrate our region and the food we produce.
Our People
Tadao Mitsui
Owner & Executive Chef
While growing up on the island I always valued the closeness of the community to local farms.
Tifanie Mitsui
Owner & Farm House Beverage Director
I’m an Islander for life. My family moved from Seattle to Bainbridge when I was 5.
Shari Stoddard
Farm House Event Manager
As a native Bainbridge Islander I have had the good fortune of enjoying the Island’s bounty as far back as I can remember.
Heidi Urish
Executive Farm Manager
I’ve always been rooted in the outdoors and being an educator. Growing up in Central Illinois among the farming community and spending my childhood in wide open spaces
helped me establish a deep connection with the natural world and everything I would later pursue. I moved to Colorado to study Natural Resources and Environmental Communication and worked as an outdoor instructor guiding multi-day backpacking trips, furthering my love for the environment.
In 2006, my future husband and I moved to the Pacific Northwest where I earned my master’s degree in education, studying permaculture and integrative skills for sustainable change. During this time, I focused my energy on farm to school curriculum while interning with Educulture Project, located on Bainbridge Island. I went on to teach at a Seattle middle school that operates a farm on Vashon Island where I realized I was coming full circle back to my roots, and that I was passionate about working with the land and growing food for the community.
That’s how we landed on Bainbridge Island, a beautiful place to raise our children, opportunities to farm, and to bring us back to a simpler way of living. We started our farm, Kaleidoscope, as a family endeavor so that our children can share our love for local food, nature and environmental responsibility. And now, overseeing the beautiful Heyday Chef’s Garden and sharing what I have learned over the years in workshops is a wonderful extension of my ambition to provide the Bainbridge Island community with fresh, local, naturally grown produce.
Brian Stahl
Farm & Livestock Manager
I moved to Bainbridge Island in 1996 from Wisconsin where I grew up on and later owned a 50 cow dairy farm.
Our Wonderful Farm Staff
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much”
-Helen Keller
Farmers:
Bailey Allegro, Josh Lesko, Kate Potter, Mae Toohey
Back of the House:
Chico Joice – Chef de Cuisine, Lindsay Nolan – Pastry Chef, Mandy Holliger
Front of the House:
Hannah Blankenship, Jadyn Velazquez
Farm Kitchen Bakers
Adrian Kollodge, Allan Abromovitz, Arron Brown, Audrey Domes, Karin Muth
On the Farm
Heyday Farm was founded in 2011, restoring over 25 acres of historic farmland that had been slated for development. In a unique partnership between farmer and landowner and many local and regional contractors, the turn of the century Pederson farmhouse was painstakingly restored and expertly updated harkening back to an era on the Island when farms were “in their heyday.” In 2013, we were honored for this effort by the Bainbridge Island Historic Preservation Commission with a Blakely Award for outstanding historic preservation efforts on the Island.
In the News
December 12, 2017 – Westsound Home and Garden
Heyday Farm Brings Sustainable Food to the People
by Tess Bolosan Haddon and Darren Strenge
The farm strives to return to the “heyday” of Bainbridge Island farms, when much of the food was locally sourced.
July 21, 2017 – Kitsap Sun
A Once a Week Treat on Bainbridge Island
by Terri Gleich
August 1, 2015 – Seattle Magazine
11 Perfect Weekend Getaways Near Seattle
by Nicole Meoli Myles
Pottery Barn meets Little House on the Prairie at Bainbridge Island’s Heyday Farm, where the name of the game is connecting people with the source of their food in an authentic and charming setting.
VIDEO by Tally Black-Brown.