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Welcome Friends! We are excited to expand our weekly Summer Youth Farm Science Program for 7-11 year olds located on our Historic Farm near the Narrows Bridge in Gig Harbor! Please see below for schedule & registration. Looking forward to immersing ourselves in nature with your kiddos! 🌻 ——————————————————————- OVERVIEW: Our summer schedule begins afterContinue reading “WillaBella Farm Science Camps 2026🌱”

NOTE: Our Fall 2026 Schedule will be posted in August. Watch our social media pages for more!) Hello Parents! We had such a fun time with your kiddos at Farm Science Camp this Summer that due to popular demand…Teaching Tuesdays will return to our Historic Farm this Fall!🌻 Back to school we go BUT theContinue reading “FALL FRUIT FARM FUN 2025🍁”

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 —————————————————— Hello Friends!  Our environmental science son Will, has been learning how to grow Microgreens for the past 6 months as part of a cohort with the Make a Difference Foundation.  The program has now come to a close, so he has decided to launch a small Ag business to help fund his finalContinue reading “Welcome To: Willard’s Greens”

KATHLEEN is the owner/operator of WillaBella Farm, LLC. She holds a Bachelor of Science clinical degree from the University of Washington & recently retired (along with her first responder husband) from a 16 year career in clinical diagnostics/medical research sales focused primarily on microbiology & immunochemistry. She is a beekeeper & certified master gardener andContinue reading “Our STEM Instructors:”

Thankfully the rainy days of Fall lend themselves to rest and regeneration. So here I sit compelled to write, coffee & fingertips at hand. I turned 57 during election week. Like many older ladies my age, I have lived a full complex life with many experiences. When you reach this stage of life, most ofContinue reading “I VOTED..A MESSAGE TO MY CHILDREN”

(ARCHIVED: As our kids are off to college, Our 15 year old youth farm stand will be sunsetted in 2026. You can now find our fresh fruit & honey at the Artondale Farm Store!) ——————————————————————- Welcome to our Farm! We are excited to announce our official new licensed name WillaBella Farm, LLC. We will beContinue reading “WillaBella Farm Summer Season 2025”

When you live on ten acres, farmhouse set back off the road, surrounded by woods, you don’t see a lot of action. Both of us with public health careers, the gated entrance & peaceful solace is a therapeutic necessity. Never in a million years expecting this… “Grab Kellee hurry..get her inside..hurry!” A calm but urgentContinue reading “Get my Goat”

Thank you Rylea Foehl photography & Pierce County Fresh for choosing us to help tell our farming story & support our regenerative outreach mission!…More of Rylea’s photos at https://ryleafoehl.com/🌻 Hello Friends, I am Kathleen, welcome to my small farming journey! This is not my life story, but rather a brief glimpse of my 50 somethingContinue reading “My Journey in Small Farming”