PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Land Trust’s first Holiday Conservation Celebration will be at Lazy J Tree Farm on Saturday.
The celebration will feature horse-pulled wagon rides, stream walks, time with Santa, cider and cookies and a chance to pursue holiday gifts at the farm from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the farm at 225 Gehrke Road, between Port Angeles and Sequim.
Trees, wreaths and more
The farm is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. It offers U-cut Christmas trees in the fields, and wreaths, jams and other foods in its store.
Tours by wagon and by foot will provide opportunities to learn how the land trust is helping farm owner Steve Johnson permanently protect salmon habitat as well as some of the land that produces Christmas trees, fruits and vegetables.
Jim Bower, owner of Jim H. Bower Logging Co. and Blue Mountain Belgians, will drive a team of the horses he uses in his logging operations. The horses will pull one of Bower’s wagons with bench seats.
Greg Good, executive director of the land trust, will ride on the wagon to answer questions about the organization’s services that have protected more than 1,800 acres in Clallam County.
Walking tour
At 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., the organization’s conservation director, Michele d’Hemecourt; longtime salmon habitat volunteer Dick Goin; Hoh River Trust’s land management director Mike Hagen; and others with expertise about Siebert Creek will lead walking tours of Siebert Creek, which flows through the farm.
Land trust volunteers will serve free cider and cookies, and Santa will be available to children in the Lazy J sales barn.
Johnson said he’s also arranged for a vendor to sell barbecue from a tent set up near the barn.
For more information, see the land trust’s Web site at www.nolt.org.
