Save the
Suyematsu Farm
Historic Property
Suyematsu Farm Legacy Alliance is a project to protect the past and future of a vital community and cultural asset!
Founded in 1928, Suyematsu Family Farm is one of the oldest, continuously farmed working landscapes in the region. It is the largest production farm and hub of our Island’s farming community, and a treasured and iconic cultural asset. Since the period of Japanese American Exclusion, Suyematsu Farm has become one of the most inclusive places on Bainbridge Island. The farm has become an established historic and cultural site for teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience, and a living bookend to the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial.
Since 2007, Historic Suyematsu Farm on Bainbridge Island, WA, has served the primary outdoor classroom and base of operations for EduCulture’s edible and heritage education programs. Our learning organization developed the educational architecture, school and community partnerships that transformed this iconic farm into a learning landscape that has served thousands of students, educators, and community members. Along with being resident educators on farm, EduCulture has been the repository of the Suyematsu Farm and Akio Suyematsu’s historical archives.
In 2023, EduCulture helped to form the Suyematsu Farm Legacy Alliance, then merged with SFLA. We are rededicating our combined efforts to more sharply focus on preserving and enhancing the living legacy and heritage of Akio Suyematsu and his family’s original farm as a community asset involving a center of active farming, interpretation and education. In November 2024, the Suyematsu Farm Legacy Alliance (SFLA) entered into an agreement with the City of Bainbridge Island to operate and manage the Suyematsu Farm Historic Property.
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Click here to read the recent One Call for All article about SFLA
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