Linda Freed

Longtime matriarch of La Conner, Linda Freed, passed on New Year’s Day 2019. She started the now famous Calico Cupboard restaurants back in 1981 at the south end of First Street, where the sea and the soil meet. She expanded her famous ‘foodery’ to include one in Anacortes and Mount Vernon. She later created Seeds Bistro in the Tillinghast building.

My wife and I sold produce to her, back in the nineties, after she bought Longfellow Café in Mount Vernon, turning it into yet another successful Calico Cupboard enterprise.

She was a class act and demanded that from her staff.

She used old...