2022 Agriculture Day at Mukai at Historic Japanese Farm - Sunday (Celebration of Vashon’s Rich Agrarian Heritage) NEW

Mukai Agriculture Day Event. Mukai Farm & Garden rounds out Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Agriculture Day. From 11 am to 3pm on Sunday May 22nd, Mukai Farm & Garden and its partners will present a day of celebration of Vashon’s rich agrarian heritage. Our special guests will speak at noon.

Event Date
Sunday May 22nd, 2022

Event Time
11am - 3pm

Event Location
Mukai Farm & Garden, 18017 107th Ave SW/Mukai Way

Story
The Mukai Farm & Garden will be celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month with information about the Island’s agricultural history with a gathering of farmers, tractors and their owners, speakers and plant selling. The event is in recognition of one of the Island’s most successful farmers, B.D. Mukai, and will honor other farmers as well.

The island’s agricultural heritage goes back to the first settlers, the sx̌ʷəbabs Native People of Vashon who were here over 5,000 years ago. In the 1930s, the Euro-Asian Americans who had settle 50 years before became a unified community with the emergence of large-scale industrial logging and farms that specialized in diverse products, such as poultry, dairy, vegetable and berries. It is this period, the early 20th century, that the day’s events focus on.

Of special interest, in addition to information about the various Island farmer personalities and stories about their contributions to the Island’s agricultural economy, there will be an opportunity to purchase Marshall strawberry and Japanese vegetable starts.

The Island’s agricultural success could not have been achieved without an indispensable piece of farm equipment - the tractor. The Friends of Mukai has organized an exhibit of old, local tractors that will be on display on the Mukai grounds. We are pleased to have Island farm families speak to the history of the farms they are working, and the heritage they are honored to carry on. These include Matsuda Farm, Forest Garden Farm, Northbourne Farm and Bruce Haulman of the Vashon Heritage Museum. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our event co-sponsors named above as well as Vashon Island Growers Association and the Food Access Partnership.

All the activities will be open to the public from 11:00am - 3:00pm on the 22nd of May. All are welcome to come, purchase plant starts, browse the multiple tractors which will be on display and learn about the rich history of the Island’s agricultural roots.