Producer

Cloud Mountain Farm Center is a production farm, non-profit education center, and nursery located on 20 acres at the foot of Sumas Mountain in rural Whatcom County. Cloud Mountain has been a working farm since 1978, and in 2011 we became a nonprofit educational farm center with a mission is to share knowledge and resources that support a resilient, accessible, and equitable regional food system. We believe in farmers as leaders in community and climate resilience, and we believe that agriculture is for everyone. Our programs include the Cloud Mountain nursery, our organic fruit production, our agricultural education pilot program, our infrastructure & aggregation facilities and partnerships, and our exceptional workshops; we also serve as the northernmost distribution partner of the Puget Sound Food Hub.

We grow all our fruit using organic practices and nearly all of our fruit is Certified Organic through WSDA. For over three decades, we have grown our farm through the selection of hundreds of common and uncommon tree fruits, berries, grapes, and small fruit. We focus not only on what is flavorful, interesting, and unique, but what is reliable and productive under organic management, and what varieties show promise for other regional small and mid-size farms as well as backyard growers. Our fruit production is GAP Certified (Good Agricultural Practices), demonstrating our commitment to food safety. We have a goal of moving at least 20% of our produce through mission-aligned channels, including getting local, organic fruit into schools, food banks and food access programs.