Salish Gardens and PT High School Gardens are JC County Fair Winners

Salish Gardens take the top Exhibitor Ag and Floral Awards

8/14/24 TOP LEFT, Neil Howe and Doug Van Allen show off a few of their many ribbons. ABOVE: Neil Howe holds the Top Exhibitor awards.


Once again all the hard work of growing show stopping veggies and flowers meets a place to show them off -- The Country Fair.


This year Neil submitted 137 entries from the Salish gardens.

  • 72 Agriculture entries— resulted in 60 blue, 12 red ribbons
  • 65 Floral entries --resulted in 48 blue, 13 red, 4 white ribbons


Doug wasn't able to give his ribbon amounts but his Walla Walla Onions took the "Oh Wow!" award.


Below: Salish also produced a double headed wonder of a sunflower which took a blue for being perfectly weird.

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