Cascadia Produce

10/10/2026

Hey, it's our friend Burr Mosby, showcasing pumpkins at his Auburn-area pumpkin patch! Mosby Farms is hyper-local to Cascadia (5 miles away) - and we both source vegetables and work in partnership with them on programs at every opportunity. They manage to have a lot of fun while being true produce professionals. We've always considered Burr the leek king, but now that we hear his passion for pumpkins, maybe we'll start calling him the squash sultan. Visit the Mosby Farms Pumpkin patch this October for a real taste of local agriculture.

10/09/2026

This week we helped a farmer out of a jam (that jam being mushrooms ready for harvest without an immediate market) and ended up with hundreds of pounds of gorgeous mushrooms for our boxes! Everybody gets local, organic, luxurious mushrooms this week!

Sno-Valley Mushrooms is in Duvall, WA. Farmer Will (what a great guy) has grown mushrooms since high school and opened the farm in 2011. They grow them on alder, with water from the creek next to the farm and no pesticides or synthetic chemicals. You may have seen them at Farmer's Markets all over Western WA.

If you got mushrooms in your box and are not sure how convince your family that they actually are amazing - try pan frying them in oil and fresh garlic until they get nice and crisp. Give those mushrooms room! Put them in a hot pan in a single layer and don't crowd them. Crowded mushrooms steam and turn soft and rubbery, but spaced-out mushrooms brown and get golden, crisp edges. Cook in two batches if you need to, and leave them alone for a few minutes before stirring. Also - wipe them clean instead of washing, since they soak up water like a sponge.

Nutrition bonus: mushrooms are low in calories and a good source of B vitamins, potassium, and fiber.

10/07/2026

Our Large Produce Essentials box features an array of items off of the "most ordered" list by Seattle Fresh Bucks customers. It's a people pleaser! But we also get to add in a local item or two, like the Shiitake Mushrooms from Sno-Valley Mushrooms in the box this week.

A box that includes mushrooms, garlic, peppers, and onions...the recipes practically write themselves.

10/07/2026

We fed baby bears today! I mean, not with our hands, but with our donations to PAWS in Snohomish County, where they are currently rehabilitating 10 baby black bears! We delivered broccoli, carrots, and a dessert of ripe cantaloupe for the cubs, and are making a plan to source Washington fish and berries for them in the coming weeks.

We love to find the "highest purpose" for good food without a market. We support local farmers, we support local foodbanks, and starting today...we support local bears.

PAWS Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Snohomish County is reaching...

10/03/2026

Though we focus our food work in Washington State, Cascadia still likes to showcase our philosophies nationwide! Jeremy is in Princeton this week at the NERC (Northeast Recycling Council) Rethink Resource Use Conference to talk about organic waste and how to catch and reroute anomalous good food back into the food system for use at its highest purpose - feeding people. Food Access = waste avoidance!

Let's give three cheers for Jeremy for stepping away from the warehouse to do something meaningful for himself - sharing the practical innovations that keep good food out of a landfill. This is Jeremy's passion - his version of work life balance, though it doesn't include actual rest.

09/30/2026

Our Fresh Bucks Home Delivery boxes roll off the production line and out to the doorsteps of customers so rapidly, it's hard to get a picture. We'll keep trying! In the meantime, here is the info sheet of what was in our Small Produce Essentials subscription box this week.
The Essentials box is a broad category that lets us put in the best assortment of the food available in our region at the time of the build. The small size includes more certified organic items, small farm local when available, WA grown foods often, a wider variety of fruit possibilities, and super foods like microgreens and mushrooms. The Large size is all about getting the max amount of fresh food for your benefit. A large is slightly more basic, but makes up for that in abundance. Both sizes are available in the Essentials type, as well as Asian-inspired and Latin-inspired produce boxes. So many options!
www.cascadiaproduce.com

09/28/2026

We love going to conferences for business, but also because that's when we see our friends. The Washington Food Coalition conference in beautiful Bremerton, WA was particularly fine this year - 400+ attendees who all care about getting good food to people all over the state. One of the sessions talked about how important it is to let people know it is real humans doing the work of caring for humans, not an impersonal system.
So here we are, here are our faces, connecting with one another and plotting increased food access for the future. Also, burning it down on the karaoke stage (not pictured).

09/19/2026

We have spent the last several days delivering produce boxes to the nearly 200 people that have signed up for our Fresh Bucks produce box home delivery program. 
It has been hard work to scale up rapidly, but feedback like this from one of our customers certainly makes the long days worthwhile. Having such abundant food people can share with neighbors is the whole goal. 
"I gave some of the beautiful baby bok choy & one green pepper to a friend, then this array was what my 97 YO neighbor selected, and I keep the rest!" - Sally/Asian-Inspired large box.

08/26/2026

We are so excited about the launch of our Fresh Seattle Fresh Bucks home delivery program. Though our model isn't entirely choice driven, we have added some culturally-inspired produce box assortments to make our boxes a better fit for more households. Here are some example photos. Pretty good value for $30, if we do say so ourselves, especially delivered (anywhere in Seattle), for no extra fees.

We hope this delivery service will help folks with transportation or mobility challenges - or just people with full lives who need the convenience of delivered food. Most of us need that sometimes, if not all the time.

We are devising a way to make these available to anyone with a credit card within 20 miles of our produce warehouse...message us if that is appealing to you or your organization.

www.cascadiaproduce.com