After years of carting tortillas home from trips to visit family in Mexico, Perla Ruiz and her husband Roman Javier solved their own problem and filled a gaping hole in the city’s Mexican food scene when they opened Milpa Masa, selling small-batch, organic corn tortillas made from scratch. Previously, local companies made tortillas from dried corn flour and a few restaurants nixtamalized their own corn in tiny batches, but nobody sold freshly.
 Andrew Ely, Viva Farms King County, assists with the installation of the new cold storage refrigeration unit.Â
While farmers and farm practices have evolved throughout the years, one thing that hasnât changed is the need for cold storage refrigeration.Â
Woodinville Rotary and Rotary District 5030 are working together to address this issue in the Sammamish Valley farming community with their innovative Keep it Cool, Keep It Fresh refrigeration project. Andrew Ely of Viva Farms King County will coordinate the use of a solar-powered refrigeration unit with farm properties nearby, and then open up available room to others if space allows.
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Chuckanut introduces Tulip Ale as the Skagit Valley takes bloom By washingtonbeerblog on April 4, 2021 at 10:45 AM
It’s tulip time in the Skagit Valley. They’ll be blooming soon. Not long ago, we published a story about beer touring the Skagit during tulip season (read it here). Now Chuckanut Brewery provides one more reason to make the trek: a beer specifically designed for the season. Here is the release info about Skagit Tulip Ale straight from the brewery
Chuckanut Brewery Taps Skagit Tulip Ale
This year Skagit Valley is celebrating tulips and its breweries once again. The Skagit Farm to Pint Fest celebrates the tulips and beer that are products of the valley. Funds raised from the fest are donated to Viva Farms, a nonprofit that teaches farming in the area. All Skagit breweries in the fest use Skagit grown grains that are malted at Skagit Valley Malts down the street from Chuckanut’s South Nut.
When
All Day
Drink local beer during the Skagit’ Farm to Pint’ Fest Roadshow running the month of April. Tickets are $55 and will include a festival guide, a sample beer made with Skagit Valley Malt at each brewery (along with a paired bite containing at least one local ingredient), a swag bag, two commemorative glasses, access to an April 3 livestreamed concert featuring local bands, and the opportunity to win over $1000 in prizes by visiting each venue during the course of the month. In order to practice socially distanced beer tasting and help avoid crowding, you will have the entire month of April to visit each brewery for your beer and bite experience. Ticket sales benefit Viva Farms, a Burlington-based nonprofit farm business incubator that empowers aspiring farmers.