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Exhausted from being cooped up by Covid and city life, Carol and Allan hopped into their van and hit the road to find their next home, all while growing their software company. Traveling from Utah, through Idaho, Montana, and across Washington State, they landed on Orcas Island and fell in love with its beauty, community and quiet.
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Two years later, they sold everything and made the move to the San Juan Islands, living on a small boat with three dogs until they finally found a lovely small home on a pretty piece of property with full sun looking out over Ships Bay, Orcas Island.
Carol, who has always gardened and Allan who can build anything, pondered the fallow weed-riddled acre of hay in front of their house and decided they could do better for the birds, native bees, and Orcas Community. Thus began The Little Farm on Olga Road— where the couple installed a pond to irrigate the farm, planted wine and table grapes, hardy kiwi, and installed an orchard and berry patch.
Committed to flowers, Carol created gorgeous garden beds full of perennial flowers such as peony, dahlia, gladiolas, tulips, iris, hellebores and beds for spring, summer, and fall annuals such as zinnias, cosmos, sweet peas, and so much more. Allan built a multipurpose barn and office for Carol’s Plant Theater workshops, a hoop house for vegetables, a glass greenhouse for seed starts and the Big Little Hoop House for Carol’s farm stand offering plants, eggs, flowers, pots, hanging baskets, t-shirts, and more. Visitors and locals will be able to enjoy you-pick opportunities in Carol’s Sweet Pea Patch and Big Little Hoop House as well as scheduled you-pick opportunities and other events on the Farm.