FARM 'B' GOLDEN GLEN CREAMERY and VIC JENSEN & SONS DAIRY

Address: 15098 Field Road, Bow, WA 98232
Miles off of I-5: 5.5
Creamery Phone: 360-766-6455
Dairy Phone: 360-766-6717
Dairy owners: Victor and Douglas Jensen
Creamery owners: Judy and Brandy Jensen
Website: www.goldenglencreamery.com

Farm type: Dairy with Creamery.

Directions: From I-5 take exit #231 (Chuckanut Dr.), north on Chuckanut Dr. 4 mi., cross Samish River. Turn left on Field Rd, 1¼ miles, dairy on left.


Farm premises: 50-cow (Holstein and Guernsey) dairy farm with view of Mt. Baker, Anacortes and Lummi Island. Farmstead cheese, milk bottling, butter, retail store.

Festival activities:

• Tractor rides and tours of the property
• Calf petting
• Artificial cow milking “Squirty Gertie”
• Meet the farmer and cheesemakers (at “learning stations” around the farm)
• Antique tractors
• Face painting
• Meet the 2008 Dairy Ambassador

Free samples: Ice cream

Learn while touring these premises: Farm/creamery tours, “What Do Cows Eat?”

Retail ($): Cheddars, Goudas, Mozzarella, Feta and cheese curds (a.k.a. “Squeaky Cheese”), glass-bottled milk & chocolate milk; specialty cheeses available on a limited basis.

Farm history: Vic Jensen & Sons Dairy began in 1967, moved to present location in 1978. Vic and Judy Jensen have farmed all their married life. Vic started as a milker on the farm they now own. Son, Doug, now operates the farm, along with a custom heifer-raising business on the premises. Golden Glen Creamery started in 2004 by making artisan and farmstead cheese, and is currently operated by Judy & Brandy Jensen. In 2006 the Creamery began bottling milk and making butter.

AgFARMation: In 25 years, Skagit County lost 72% of its family dairy farms. Starting 2008, there were only 29 dairies left in Skagit County, 56 dairies in 2000. Milk is second only to apples as one of the largest agricultural commodities in Washington State.