FARMS 'C' & 'D' SAKUMA BROS. FARMS, MARKET STAND and SBF PROCESSING

Market Stand Address: 17790 Cook Rd., Burlington, WA 98233
Processing Plant Address: 17400 Cook Rd., Burlington, WA 98233
Miles from I-5: 1
Market Stand Phone: 360-757-8004
Owners: Sakuma Family
Website: www.sakumamarketstand.com

Farm type: Fruit production, nursery plants, market stand


Directions: From I-5, exit 232 (Cook Road/Sedro-Woolley). Go west one mile: Market Stand is on left, Processing Plant is .4 miles west on Cook Road (cross Chuckanut Dr., plant is on left).

Farm premises: 1,500 acres; Market Stand on 40 acres with berries, fruit trees, vegetables and seven varieties of tea plants.

Market Stand festival activities (17790 Cook Rd.):

  • Tea Tasting & Tours
  • Tea Field tours (Saturday only; hourly 10am – 4pm)
  • Hayrides every ½ hour about the Farm
  • Children’s “berry” wagon rides
  • Kid’s Mini Tractor Pull
  • Pumpkin Bowling
  • Greenhouse Tent
  • View bugs through microscope
  • Plant strawberries
  • View commercial picking machines
  • See fruit harvesting (weather permitting)

Processing Plant festival activities (17400 Cook Rd.):

  • Tour commercial processing plant (Saturday only 2PM and 3PM)
  • Wet Plant & IQF Plant

Learn while touring these premises: Tractor-pulled wagon hayride farm tours, learn about fruit and vegetable crops, tea cultivation, history of Sakuma Farms. See raspberry machines, other large farm equipment.

Food ($): Homemade strawberry shortcake, berry sundaes, pies slices and milkshakes.

Free Samples: Fresh berries, beverages, apples.

Retail ($): Market Stand features berries, apples, jams, pumpkins and vegetables.

Farm history: The Sakuma family has grown strawberries in the Pacific Northwest since 1915. They moved to the Skagit Valley in 1939, and the third generation is currently farming, with the fourth joining in. Sakuma Bros. Farms is now run by the Sakuma cousins, as the original Sakuma brothers have retired.

AgFARMation: Sakuma Bros. Farms is one of only two locations growing tea in the continental US, and one of the largest commercial berry farms in WA St.