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Mark Your Calendars for September
11th!
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 | Attend our Harvest Potlucks and share ideas and energy: |
| Host a 'Farm Tour' (or business tour) for our 'Friends of the Market' members. |
| Cook up one of your favorite soup recipes at market. |
| Join us to plan and help promote our big fundraising picnic, auction and Tour de Farm on September 11th, 2010. |
| Find out how you might help with the construction of our permanent market shelters, due to start this summer. |
| Grow some vegetable, herb and/or flower starts for our Spring Plant Sale, this year at the Farmers Market through May. |
To find out more contact Sarah Cassidy (Friends of the Market); Claire Foster (Plant sale); or Heidi Bohan (Soups, Market shelters, fundraising event)'; Carnation Farmers Market www.carnationfarmersmarket.org
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Have enough farm experience to be confident of success at farming,
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Are committed to starting your own farm,
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Are able to start a small (1-5 acre) farm in the Snoqualmie Valley this year,
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Would like help finding available land for lease,
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Would like to be mentored by a nearby farmer, and most importantly,
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Have the energy, desire, and work ethic to make it happen.
For more information, e-mail Erick Haakenson at jubileefarm@hotmail.com; or Heidi Bohan at hbohan@peoplepc.com
2010 Membership Drive is
in full swing!
Please renew or join our group and help support sustainable
agriculture in the
Snoqualmie and Snohomish watersheds.
Commercial Kitchen Community
Outreach
We are conducting surveys and outreach meetings to determine the
existing resources and community need for a commercial/certified kitchen for the
production of value-added agricultural product.
Fill out our 'Commercial Kitchen
Survey' (hard copy)
Bring to meetings or mail to PO Box 48, Carnation, WA
98014
Or fill out our 'Online
Survey'
Tilth is an Old English word used to describe the structure and quality of cultivated soil. An even older meaning describes it as the cultivation of wisdom and spirit. A soil or person in good tilth was said to be "in good heart."
The Oxford English Dictionary defines tilth as labor, work, or effort directed to useful or profitable ends, especially in regards to the cultivation of the soil.
"Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure." -Walter Russell
Our mission is to support organic and sustainable food production practices throughout the Snoqualmie and Snohomish watersheds. We strive to bring together individuals working to support and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture and connect them with consumers.
Recent Article about Agriculture in Snoqualmie Valley and the Sno-Valley Tilth, "Our Valleys farming roots go deep"
We have proudly operated the Carnation Farmers Market since 2005.
www.carnationfarmersmarket.org
Support our efforts to encourage and preserve organic and sustainable food production in the Snoqualmie Valley and Snohomish watersheds. Your membership greatly supports us in working towards this mission, and is more important now than ever! Join our mailing list for future action to support sustainable agriculture in our valley and beyond.
Sno-Valley Tilth members adhere to a set of principles aiming to encourage stewardship of the earth. We are committed to producing high-quality agricultural products while maintaining a healthy, ecologically balanced environment. We constantly strive to continue learning through on-farm research on ecologically-based, low-impact production methods.
By providing a support network for farmers in the area and educating the public on the value of local farming and the issues important to sustaining our local farming heritage, we hope to increase awareness of the value of small, localized agriculture.
Next Board of Directors Meeting: November 23, 2009 6:30 PM- Hjertoos House
Meeting Minutes and Newsletters are archived
here.
(Alphabetical by first name)
Andrew Stout- Full Circle Farms
Claire Foster- Stuart Landing
Erick Haakenson- Jubilee Farms
Kate Halstead- Rocky Prairie Herbs
Matt Tregoning- Sol to Seed Farms
Sarah Cassidy- Oxbow Farms
Siri Erickson-Brown- Local Roots Farm
Bruce Singbeil- Engustment Farms
President: Andrew Stout- Full Circle
Farm
Vice President: Siri Erickson-Brown- Local Roots Farm
Secretary: Claire Foster- Stuart Landing Farm
Treasurer: Kate Halstead- Rocky Prairie Herbs
Director at Large: Matt Tregoning- Sol to Seed Farm
Policy and Advocacy: Andrew Stout,
Erick Haakenson
Membership Policies and Outreach: Siri Erickson-Brown;
support- Heidi Bohan
Farmers Market Committee: Sarah Cassidy; support- Claire
Foster
Market Shelters/Commercial Kitchen: Kate Halstead, Erick
Haakenson; support Heidi Bohan
We will be seeking support from our membership for other special projects and events.
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