This month we are holding our online Holiday with a Heart auction, from December 1, 2024 through December 21, 2024, which gives you a chance to find that special gift for your loved one, while also helping to support Mukai Farm & Garden.  

We are really jazzed about the array of items featured this year: art, dinners, private cooking classes, tours and so much more! These are unique items that reinforce our values of history, culture and community.

We are particularly excited to be able to offer flowering cherry trees descendant from the 100 trees that were gifted in 1932 by the Vashon Japanese Society to Vashon High School to express their gratitude for the fine public education their children had received. At that time, Society President Ujiro Nishiyori said “The trees, which we present today are our gift to a community which has treated us and our children as neighbors and friends rather than people of another race and country.”

Over the years, most of the trees were lost to make room for new facilities and only three remained, until gift, VISD used part of an OSPI grant and collaborated with the Vashon Fruit Club to graft new trees from the remaining cherry trees on campus as part of a tribute to the Japanese American children who were incarcerated during WWII.   With this act, our island has once again demonstrated what can be done to reclaim an important part of our history.