Finnriver Farm and Cidery

The founders met as wilderness educators in Yosemite and settled near Port Townsend. In 2004 they and two farming friends bought a thirty three acre organic blueberry farm in Chimacum from Lige and Kay Christian. The name comes from two of the children, Finn and River, and from the Irish story of Finn MacCool and the Salmon of Wisdom. Cider started because Lige carried over a bottle he had fermented from the apples out the back.

The cidery followed in 2008 and sold its first bottle in 2010. It sits on the old Chimacum Dairy now, fifty acres under conservation easement, on land bought in 1898 by William Bishop Junior, the first Native American elected to the Washington state senate. A cow feeding trough was rebuilt in reclaimed barn wood into a seventy five foot table under the pavilion.

The range runs from canned Blush and Bloom to estate fruit like Kingston Black and botanicals such as Solstice Saffron. Live music plays Friday through Sunday all year, dogs are welcome in three marked areas and nowhere else, and the gates stay shut on Tuesdays.