Whidbey islanders with a valentine or an infatuation for rocks and cake have two events to choose from this weekend ahead of Valentine’s Day.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8 and Sunday, Feb. 9, the Greenbank Farm will celebrate the season of love with the second annual Valentine’s Market and a late birthday party for the farm, which turned 120 years old in 2024.

According to Event Coordinator Muri Mitschak, the market will feature 25 arts and crafts vendors from Whidbey Island, offering a wide variety of gifts for a loved one or yourself and made by local artisans.

Lovebirds, families and pals can also enjoy food, drinks, and a performance by jazz singer and pianist June Shellene on Saturday and singer and songwriter Mike Hopkins on Sunday. Children can also have fun in the farm barn loft, where they can make valentine cards.

The farm’s businesses, which include Greenbank Cheese Shop, Greenbank Farm Wine Shop, Old Spots Bistro, Whidbey Pies, the Pup Stop and Island Gifts and Collectibles, will also welcome guests.

On both days, the Greenbank Farm Wine Shop will feature Sweet Mona’s truffles to offer chocolate and wine pairings, such as sweet wines with loganberry truffles, rosé wines with passion fruit truffles, white wines with white vanilla truffles and more, according to the shop’s Facebook page.

The first Valentine’s Market took place over the course of a day and attracted roughly 1,000 to 1,500 people last year, Mitschak estimated. This year, more people could join in celebration of the farm’s 120th birthday.

The Greenbank Farm’s birthday will include balloons and a cake offered at 2 p.m. on Saturday, available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The second floor of the barn will feature an exhibition of photos, flyers and newspaper articles documenting the life of the farm going back to 1904, when Calvin Phillips built what was considered to be one of the largest dairy farms in the Northwest, according to the Wine Shop’s website.

Up in Oak Harbor, the Whidbey Island Gem Club is bringing back the Sweetheart of Gems Show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The club’s biggest event, which will be hosted for the 59th year, has attracted thousands of rock lovers from Whidbey and as far away as Canada and Minnesota, according to Club Treasurer Harriet Vick.

The show will include vendors, educational displays and live demonstrations of various art forms, including intarsia, wire wrapping, chain mail, cabochon and arrow making, Vick said. Visitors can find a wide variety of opals, crystals, slabs, sculptures, gem-filled buckets and, for the first time, rough tumble rocks. Upon entry they become eligible for door prizes, while children can have fun with the spinning wheel, which would allow them to take home a cup of rocks, Vick said.

“Rocks are absolutely beautiful things, and what you can do with them is just, I think, astounding,” Vick said.

The show takes place at The Center, located at 51 Southeast Jerome Street, and has free admission.

For more information, visit the Whidbey Island Rock and Gem Club group on Facebook.

(Photo provided) The Greenbank Farm will host a Valentine’s Day market and its 120th birthday party.