SEQUIM – The Dungeness Valley Creamery, one of the region’s last two dairy farms, will throw a party this Saturday to celebrate its first year of milking and bottling – and to anticipate the grant that would make sure it stays a farm forever.
Friends of the Fields, the nonprofit group dedicated to preserving Clallam County farmland, recently certified that it and the North Olympic Land Trust have raised about $350,000 in local matching monies.
The sum was accumulated, through donations, to go with Friends’ application to the state Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation, which makes grants to help buy the development rights to farms such as the Dungeness Valley Creamery.
“We’re expecting that [the grant money] will be available by the first of August,” said Robert Caldwell, Friends’ founder.
