Simple Goodness Sisters

05/28/2026

✔️office smells like rosemary, sage, thyme & lemon
✔️company can’t be beat 💪🏼

We made 2 small batches of cocktail/mocktail syrups today and bottling these syrups with extra hands is way more fun!

Every bottle we make is crafted with real ingredients, sustainable sourcing, and a whole lot of love for good drinks and good people. Whether you’re mixing cocktails, building the perfect latte, or gifting specialty food finds to fellow flavor lovers — we’re here for the cozy, elevated moments.

and if you need proof that we’re really a woman owned business? We won’t be spending the money on a $2000 certification to tell you that. But hopefully these photos explain it pretty well 😉

Supporting this women-owned small business means supporting community and intentional food production, and we’re so grateful you’re here. 🫶

Which flavor are you going to grab first?

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05/20/2026

Inviting media (or anyone really) into the garden is always exciting and nerve wracking. It’s truly my safe space. It’s a bit like inviting someone to a therapy session I suppose. I see every imperfection, every w**d and yet it’s all beautiful to me. I garden for me and for the syrups and I’m deeply protective of this space.

But walking through the flowers with was an honor. She was kind and genuinely interested in the story we strive to tell through our drink syrups.

Tomorrow our episode of The Nosh on with airs and we are SO EXCITED! This is the first feature where we get to really show off the full farm to bottle process from beginning to end and I have no doubt the crew did an amazing job putting it all together and showing our “good side”!

05/12/2026

GIVEAWAY! Whiskey lovers, this one’s for you 🥃✨

The 5th annual Old Fashioned Fest is bringing craft cocktails, live music, local distilleries, food vendors, and family-friendly fun to Wilkeson this May!

> > swipe for entry instructions- and 🤞!

Hosted by the Simple Goodness Sisters, the festival celebrates the classic old fashioned while supporting small businesses impacted by the Fairfax Bridge closure.

Expect tastings from Washington distilleries and local Enumclaw and Buckley businesses, bartender competitions, hot dogs, whiskey-themed tattoos, and live honky-tonk vibes just outside Tacoma— and it’s a beautiful drive towards Mt Rainier 🏔️.

Perfect weekend plans for anyone in Graham, Puyallup, Bonney Lake, Buckley, Enumclaw, Auburn, Sumner, Tacoma, and across Pierce County!

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05/11/2026

Count down begins....

05/11/2026

ONE WEEK OUT! Old Fashioned Fest at the Soda Shop

Feat Old Fashioneds from:

Casting Iron
Barrel Dogs
Roaring Underground
Dry Fly
Pursuit Distilling Co


and live music from
and

Turn May 16 into a relaxed foothills getaway. 🥃

Spend the morning exploring historic Wilkeson on foot, then settle in for Old Fashioned Fest at Simple Goodness Soda Shop featuring whiskey tastings, live music, and conversations with Washington distillers and South Sound bartenders.

The self guided walking tour takes you through Wilkeson’s coal mining history, historic buildings, and small town character before the afternoon and evening festivities begin.

Single night lodging can often be found nearby in Buckley and Enumclaw. We'll put links to the walking tour, event tickets, and lodging in the comments. 👇

05/06/2026

I am not a fancy person, except when it comes to my drinks…and now my chicken feeder and waterer thanks to my new friends over at .

The chickens are now the most spoiled animals on the farm and to be honest they deserve it because they give me fresh eggs every morning which means I always have some in the fridge for my favorite drink, a Gin Sour!

To be honest, I usually make my sister Belinda (the bartender) make me these because they aren’t the easiest cocktail, but after doing enough Cocktail classes with her, I’ve gotten pretty good at it (she’ll probably have feedback for me after watching this though). Like most things in life, the extra effort is WORTH IT! The egg whites give give the drink its signature frothy, creamy texture and mellows the gin in the most perfect way.

If you’ve got chickens in your backyard you should give this cocktail a try. You should also give Omlets waterers and feeders a try! The feeder has solar sensors and automatically closes every night (or you can control with an app) which when you live on a farm where rodents share the property and love to steal chicken feed, the auto doors are MONEY! I am feeding SO MUCH LESS feed than I was before and the coop and water stays SO MUCH CLEANER! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go back to the basic feeders and waterers again. I’m ruined forever and so are my girls.

05/06/2026

Elderflower Tea syrup has shipped! Cocktail and mocktail farm club members, keep your eyes 👀 on the mail this week.

We can’t wait for you to try it!

This year for our farm club memberships, we have only shipped brand new flavors. It’s meant longer days in the kitchen to formulate and coax flavor out of REAL ingredients but it’s been novel. I need novelty in my life and I definitely crave it in my drinks.

Fresh from our farm to your door, then into your nonalcoholic drinks or cocktails— what will you make first?

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05/05/2026

We love this line from Ray at The Courier-Herald about the upcoming (and 5th annual!) Old Fashioned Fest at the Soda Soda Shop:

"Old Fashioned Fest, however, is not for drowning sorrows, but celebrating spirits, and co-founders Venise Cunningham and Belinda Kelly hope this year’s gathering is the best yet."

That's the....spirit! ;) see what we did there?

Tickets here: https://oldfashionedfest2026.eventbrite.com

05/03/2026

In case you hadn’t heard the news, we won’t be opening the Soda Shop as we have the last 5 years. The loss of tourist traffic after WSDOT closed the Fairfax bridge was too significant of a loss for us. We will still be hosting a few of our most special events over the season. If you want to visit the Soda Shop we’d love to see you there (link to those are in the comments). If you have a special event (birthday, wedding, celebration of life, retirement, business meeting) the Soda Shop will be available for private rentals. Thank you for all the support you’ve given us over the years. With your help, we’ll weather the storm.

Thank you!
-Venise and Belinda

Businesses in the “ghost town” have been struggling to stay afloat, leaving owners with a choice: find ways to adapt, or close their doors.

05/02/2026

Tokeland Hotel Oysterfest X Drink Your Garden cocktail Pop Up, Spring 2026-

Where should we bring our garden to glass beverages next?

(You know there was an equally exciting non alcoholic menu, right? Right.)

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