Take A Field Trip: A Stay at Whidbey Island’s Organic Farm School

IMAGE BY RICHARD SCHMITZ

“Eat real food!”

It’s the perennial directive given by author Michael Pollan and nutritionists the world over. The meaning is simple yet profound: eating food provided to us by nature, grown in the ground instead of engineered in a laboratory. Whole ingredients that are entirely themselves. At the Organic Farm School (OFS) on Whidbey Island, they are growing real food as well as the future farmers our world so desperately needs. As an added bonus, they offer a public farm stand with an honor system, and farm stays in their refurbished ranch house. More…