Eat Your Way Through Kitsap History: Bainbridge's Historic Suyematsu Farm

Founded in 1928, the Suyematsu Farm is the oldest continuously farmed land on Bainbridge Island and possibly in the Puget region. Theirs was one of the farms that helped make the area the strawberry capital of the Northwest. In 1942 the family was forced to leave their bumper crop of Marshall strawberries unpicked as they were taken from the island and interned. Upon their return, Akio Suyematsu, the eldest son of the original owners, eventually took over the farm and helped make it a thriving agricultural enterprise. He was the first to embrace organic, sustainable practices. Jonathan Garfunkel, a director of the Suyematsu Farm Legacy Alliance, will lead us on a tour of the farm and heritage site. Lunch at Bainbridge Vineyards, which exists on land purchased from the Suyematsus, will follow.

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