Kim G.
Yelp
Wonderful farm on Sauvie Island with activities throughout the year! The Market, which is located in barm painted black with bright sunflowers, produce and Bella Organic products painted on the walls. It's vibrant and beautiful and definitely catches your eye. And of course it makes the perfect, colorful, selfie backdrop!
The market is open all year long and is stocked with fresh organic produce plus a huge variety of items made from their products. Jams, BBQ sauce, salad dressing, pickled veggies, chocolate covered hazelnuts, hard cider, wine and lots of gorgeous farmer market baskets everywhere. Lots of frozen berries and pies plus freshly baked berry pies in individual and large sizes. Definitely pick one up, the Marionberry is my fave. Make sure to get one of their giant freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, too!
Located next to the Market is a pen with piglets, frisky goats, and sheep who love being fed. While meant for the kiddies, aren't we all a little kid at heart? I spent a significant amount of time just smiling over the antics of these adorable barn animals, especially the goats.
Spring kicks off with u-pick strawberries including the illustrious Hoods. It's fun to wander the strawberry fields and pick your own but the biggest and best berries seem to be in the pints and flats that have been picked and available for purchase in the Market.
The summer brings on the blueberries, the bushes loaded with sweet berries. During Covid, they provide masks and gloves. As with the strawberries, you pay $4 for these items, a wristband and a bucket that you keep. The $4 then goes towards the price of the berries you pick, which gets weighed when you return from the fields.
When the leaves start turning and Sauvie Island is basked in shades of yellow, red and orange, there is no better place to be on a Fall day. Bella's has a corn maze, pumpkin patch, apples and cider and other fun activities. On a sunny Autumn day it does get crowded, but that's part of the fun.
Located just a few miles from the Sauvie Island Bridge, and just 20 minutes from downtown Portland, it's an easy and nice ride to a serene place that is so vastly different from Portland. A great and much needed escape, I am a frequent visitor and often take the ride just to enjoy the scenery and shop at the Market.