Help Tuk Muk Farm Take Root
TUK MUK NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
Hello! 2017 is Year One for Tuk Muk Farm, and we need your help to get up and running.
We are a small, sustainable farm in Woodinville, Washington, just 20 miles from Seattle. Alongside family favorites like tomatoes and squash, Tuk Muk specializes in unique Asian vegetables and herbs like daikon, shiso and mizuna. A part of our farm is dedicated to raising chickens on pasture. As committed stewards of the land, we practice cover cropping, crop rotation, rotational grazing and organic growing methods.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
All of these epic endeavors cost money! We are reaching out to family, friends and community to ask for your help with our startup costs.
Your donations will fund the materials we need for the upcoming season. With your help we will build two greenhouses for growing warm weather crops like tomatoes and peppers. We will build a coop for our chickens and purchase mobile fencing and organic feed. We will install drip irrigation in the field to conserve water. And we will buy essential tools including a seeder, weed whacker, broadfork, bed rakes and hoes, as well as supplies for starting and transplanting seeds.
Our goal of $6500 will pay for all of these much needed items. Any amount we receive beyond this will go towards special wish list items like a bicycle for peddle powered deliveries.
BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER
We have been hard at work planning our inaugural year, and we are so excited to get out in the field and grow good food! With the help of loved ones and community members around the world, we can achieve our vision of a happy, healthy and productive farm. Your donations will go directly to putting delicious, nutritious and sustainable food on someone’s table.
MEET YOUR FARMERS
Shawn Miller grew up in the cornfields of Ohio and has been doing farm work ever since. After moving to Seattle and discovering that organic and permaculture practices successfully provide healthy food for the people, he became a farmer. Shawn has spent the last 15 years traveling the country and working in all aspects of farming including fruit and vegetable production, seed conservation and edible landscaping.
Kelly Okumura brings 20+ years of experience in the fields of design and marketing. She has worked independently since 2001 for a wide range of clients including local businesses, non-profits, cultural organizations and educational institutions. Kelly’s experience with financial management, new business development, sales and marketing are a strong complement to Shawn’s farming expertise.