Meet the Producer: Hayton Farms

Angelica Hayton was 8 years old when she began selling berries from the driveway of her family’s 300-acre farm in Mount Vernon; a decade later, she's still involved in the family business—and she’s still selling berries—now at several farmers’ markets, including Ballard (Sundays 10 a.m.–3 p.m.), Broadway (Sundays 11 a.m.–3 p.m.) and Lake City (Thursdays 3­–7 p.m.). She and her father, Robert Hayton, have a 50/50 partnership in farmers market side of the business with Angelica overseeing it. Beginning this month, look for the easy-to-spot red tent, where you’ll find a wide variety of freshly picked strawberries, appearing throughout the summer in the order of their ripening: Honey Oye, Hoods, Totems, the ever-bearing Albion (predominantly picked in June, with smaller amounts picked throughout the summer), Puget Summer and Shuckson. Raspberries will appear in mid-June with blueberries in early July and blackberries later that month. Hayton berries also show up in some of the sweetest goodies found in the city: the maple cake with strawberry filling and Berry Tea Biscuits at Flying Apron, and jams and fruit crisps at Queen Anne’s Eat Local.