Barn # 43 Olympic Valley Farm
west of Carlsborg
West side of Kitchen Dick at Woodcock
Olympic Valley Farm is believed to be the first commercial dairy farm established in the Sequim area in the early 1900s. The original barn was built here around 1912. It burned down in 1945 but was rebuilt in the same location by Howard Cameron (in fact, virtually all the current farm buildings were built around 1950). Norm and Marilyn Siebens owned the farm from the 1972 until 2000. Along with some normal dairy activities, they also had a business there making deodorized liquid manure.
Friends of the Fields bought this farm in 2001 with private donations from the community, to save it from sure development, although the Siebens continued to live there until 2006. They then sold it to John and Heather Erskine for farming, with a restricted title. The property can never be used for other than farming, it can never be subdivided and developed into smaller parcels, and it will remain farmland into perpetuity.
John and Heather raise beautiful Shire draft horses. They plan to integrate the use of the Shires into cultivation of row crops on the farm, and they also train their “High Bridge Shires” to pull wagons and carriages
 Back side seen from Woodcock (Click here to enlarge picture) |
 Approaching on Woodcock, from the east |
 North side, seen from Kitchen Dick (Click here to enlarge picture) |
Read more about this barn:
| Sequim: Newspaper article leads to farm"s purchase |
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| Giant horsepower fuels dream of farming the old-fashioned way |