ABOUT LUM FARM
Lum Farm LLC is located on the historic SJC Land Bank Coffelt Farm Preserve and incorporates neighboring pastures. We've been located on Coffelt Preserve since 2019, and in 2022 received the 10-year lease through the Land Bank. We work together with the county and landowners to improve pastures and forestland through sustainable grazing practices. We raise a diverse assortment of cattle, pastured lamb, goat, pork and poultry, all harvested on site and USDA certified.
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Our goat dairy produces a variety of goat cheese, including feta, chevre, tomme and gouda. We are currently the only WSDA Certified Dairy in Washington state that offers goat's milk ice cream.
In the farm stand you’ll find meats, cheese and eggs, seasonal fruits and vegetables, sheepskins and goatskins, wool products and more. Nearly all products have been grown, tended and harvested on our farm. We are honored to be featured at many island restaurants, and proud to be able to make regular contributions to the Orcas Island Food Bank.
COFFELT FARM PRESERVE
To help ensure a future of local agriculture, the Land Bank purchased Coffelt Farm on Orcas Island. The 185 acres spans Crow Valley, encompassing an expanse of scenic open-space, habitat resources, and productive agricultural land. In 1995, Vern and Sidney Coffelt worked with the Land Bank to place a conservation easement on their farm to limit development and protect special features of the land. The easement was an important step, but it did not ensure that future landowners would continue to farm the property. After 60 years of working the land, and with a conviction that it must be made available to future generations of farmers, the Coffelts sold the bulk of the farm to the Land Bank in 2008. Ten acres remain privately owned under the conservation easement. The terms of the easement allow for one residential dwelling and protect farm fields and views.
(From the SJC Land Bank website: sjclandbank.org)
Lum Farm began as a family farm: Eric, Amy and daughters Martha and Rachel. As the farm has grown, so has the farm family, which now includes a handful of hard-working island residents.
Eric Lum grew up on Orcas Island and has worked in island agriculture most of his life. He is the farm’s mechanic, and manages the fields with an expertise in sustainable and regenerative soil practices. Eric serves on the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative board, which serves as the animal processing unit for San Juan farmers. He can be seen on his tractor all around the island in the summer, makin' hay while the sun shines.
Amy’s truest calling on the farm is caretaking the animals. She has a background in animal health, is our resident sheep shearer and is usually one of the first people island residents call when they need some animal advice. Amy is also a fiber artist, serving as one of the trio who makes up the needle-felting business Bossy's Feltworks.
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We love our extended farm family! The Lum Farm Crew staples are: dairy queen and goat kid midwife Crystal Mossman; farmstand manager and marketing maven and wool artist Mandy Troxel; Nico Dellanbach is our main chore warrior, goat milker and gardener; Rachel Lum assist in the dairy, and Kyle Jepson is our mower, fencer and coop builder.
During the summer months, we have a fabulous modge-podge of super-teens who work their hearts out, milking, slinging hay, washing eggs, harvesting, moving fences and generally taking on whatever needs be done. Ah, youth!
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Amy and Eric offer on-site homesteading consultations. Click HERE for more info.
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OUR FARM FAMILY
Lum Farm's mission is to raise happy, healthy animals through regenerative farming practices that improve our land and nourish our community with high-quality food, forage and education.
