The Garden

The Garden is a roughly one-acre organic garden and farm stand on Stehekin Valley Road. You can wander among vegetable rows and flower beds, then pick up vegetables harvested for visitors. It suits people who enjoy small working gardens and local food; seeing what grows here is part of the stop.

The stand is known for garden vegetables, homemade goat cheese, honey, and maple syrup made from Stehekin maples. Visitors also describe flower beds, including dahlias, and a friendly, personal stop. Produce and blooms change with the season, so enjoy what is ready instead of counting on a particular crop or flower.

In a 2017 profile, the grower described hitting water about ten inches below the soil at full lake level. That shallow water table let plants draw moisture from below, while rye cover crops and manure from five goats helped enrich the soil. It is a useful bit of local farming ingenuity behind what might otherwise look like a pretty roadside garden.

There are no outside roads into Stehekin; visitors arrive by boat, plane, or on foot or horseback, then travel along the valley road. Treat The Garden as a stop while you are already in the valley. Its current opening schedule was not confirmed, so check local information before making a special trip.