Songbird Haven Farm, a King County incubator farm, will expand to include the Chehalis Farmers Market in June and the Southwest Washington Food Hub for its seventh season of farming.
Songbird Haven Farm, owned and operated by Noa Kay and Mark Albonizio, also recently purchased a 7-acre farm in Rochester, ending a four-year search for land fueled by over 1,000 personal letters to landowners in King, Snohomish, Skagit and Thurston counties.
The farmers worked with the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Services Agency, the landowner and AgWest Farm Credit to secure the funding to purchase the farm, complete with housing and a pole barn.
Kay and Albonizio will continue to pursue their goal of viability in order to exclusively farm full time, according to a news release.
“On our closing day, we brought a measuring tape and stakes to mark out our fields so that we’d be ready to open up the pasture and plant cover crop and garlic,” Kay said in the release.
Songbird Haven Farm has developed sales channels via a twice-a-month community-support agriculture with food access organizations, in addition to its expansion to Lewis County. The farm’s focus remains on supporting “habitat for creatures above and below the soil,” according to the news release, by using organic growing methods and supporting soil health by not tilling.
Learn more at https://songbirdhavenfarm.com/.
