Blueberries
Where to pick your own blueberries in north Clark County:
Bosch’s Blueberry Hill Farm
3917 N.E. Cedar Creek Road, Woodland
360-225-7103
Annie’s Berry Farm
39069 N.E. 41st Ave., La Center
360-263-2289
Kew Kanooth
37614 N.E. 137th Court, La Center
360-921-3571
Kaye’s Blueberries
5406 N.E. 219th St., Battle Ground
360-687-4630
La Center siblings Jack Keeling, 6, and his 3-year-old sister, Addison, have become capable blueberry pancake critics during their young lives, but seeing wheat milled into the flour that would make their sweet, syrupy treat Saturday at north Clark County’s historic Cedar Creek Grist Mill was a new experience.
“The history of this place is great,” said their father, Peter Keeling. “It’s fascinating to see how things worked back then. This place is unique. You don’t see a whole lot of water-powered mills anymore.”
Volunteers at the national historic site used freshly milled flour from the mill and blueberries handpicked at La Center’s Kew Kanooth blueberry patch to make a feast of blueberry pancakes for visitors Saturday. The free pancakes were a magnet to raise money to support the mill and to advance the mill’s mission of educating the public about the mill’s history and where their food comes from.
Visitors from all over the Washington, Oregon and California lined up at the mill to eat pancakes, find a map of local blueberry patches and learn about the mill built in 1876.