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Among people everywhere there is increasing concern about the quality and safety of our food as well as concern about harm to the environment from ill-conceived agricultural activity. Tilth's mission is to promote environmentally sound and sustainable agriculture. We are devoted to learning about and promoting ways in which to raise food, ornamentals, other farm crops and farm animals without damage to the environment. Our group, South Whidbey Tilth, is part of the Washington Tilth Association, which is composed of several regional chapters. In The News ... Network with Farmers on Monday August 14 Tilth is hosting the Whidbey Island Growers Association for a dessert social potluck at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, August 14. Meet local farmers, farm interns and involved rural businesses.
Join us every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the South Whidbey Tilth Farmers' Market. Fruits of many kinds are in as well as broccoli, peas potatoes and so much more. Visitors can expect unique gifts by local artisans as well. Also hot breakfast and lunch items may be purchased from concessionaires to enjoy on picnic tables or to take home; plus organic coffee, tea, hot chocolate and cold beverages to accompany baked goods. Plenty of parking, free WiFi, clean restrooms and children's play area. From 12:30-1:30 p.m. August 13, a free wokshop on Herbal Infused Oils will be taught by Julie Charette Nunn. Sommer Harris performs original music in the mountain -folk style. She performs at the market on August 20th as well. 
SNAP customers welcome. Get double value up to $20. Ask a vendor for a record sheet and bring it to the Laughing Cat in the pavilion for processing. WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program coupons are accepted by DoReMi, Maha, Nettle Hollow, Lesedi and Blackberry Moon.
Council of Trustees Next Meeting Is September 21 The council welcomes Ida Gianopulos to the council. She will replace Pete Little and chair the land stewardship committee. Pete will remain involved but is not able to attend regular meetings. Ida is particularly interested in working with the community gardeners. At the January 29 Annual Membership meeting three trustees were elected to fill the four open positions on the Council of Trustees. Edward Hueneke, Position 3 will continue to serve as finance officer and treasurer. Andréa Linton, Position 5, will serve as membership, community relations and development chair. Angie Hart, Position 7, will serve as education chair. Position 8 is unfilled. The office of secretary is still open. Please consider joining the council who serve as the governing board. These trustees join four others in the second year of their term: President (Susan) Prescott, vice president FRed Rouge, market committee chair Judy Kaplan and land stewardship chair Pete Little. Many thanks to outgoing countil members Dorcas Young and Michael Seraphinoff. Join us at our next business meeting on Thursday, September 21 at 6 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church's Annex in Freeland. All are welcome to participate and ask questions, contact the President for more information or leave a message at 360-321-0757.
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Only $160 More Funds Needed for Infrastructure Help us keep the plant propagation and salvage facility infrastructure. We've raised $740 and the South Whidbey Garden Club is helping with $300. See the Garden page. Vounteer hours South Whidbey Tilth depends on its volunteers. Please download a volunteer form as a pdf file. Keep track of your time all year. Mail to South Whidbey Tilth or email to the Treasurer. Our Organization Enjoy the Sustainability Campus The South Whidbey Tilth 11-acre Sustainability Campus provides a unique, leisurely ambience and focus for learning. The campus is open for walking, and you can view our ongoing projects: demonstration field crops, community garden and orchard, forest trail and understory recovery project, native plant salvage beds operated by Native Plant Stewards, the highway vegetation management model, and bluebird nesting boxes established by Coupeville fifth-graders. Dog walkers, please usethe poop bags behind the restroom where the directional signs are. Use the trash can there.
Volunteer Opportunities South Whidbey Tilth has opportunities for you to help with classes, farmers' market, community gardens, facilities maintenance and improvements and forest restoration projects.
Tilth History On August 27, 1977, more than 70 people gathered at Pragtree Farm near Arlington, WA, to develop strategies for the sustainable agriculture movement in the Pacific Northwest. Known as the "Regional Planning Meeting," the gathering established the framework for the Tilth Association.
Recently the Berry Center in Kentucky posted a video of Wendell Berry's July 1, 1974 speech in Spokane. Wendell's insights are as powerful today as they were forty years ago. The full transcript of his speech is available on the Tilth Producers website.
The meeting at Pragtree Farm laid the foundation for organizing local Tilth chapters. The next spring the first chapters were formed in Seattle and in Southwest Washington, followed by Willamette Valley Tilth and Rogue Tilth in Oregon. By the summer of 1982 there were 15 Tilth chapters in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, with an estimated combined membership of 2,000. At the Regional Planning Meeting three years later Anthony Judge's ideas were incorporated into Tilth's strategy of organizing autonomous local chapters empowered to respond to the needs of their communities. Over the past three decades the Tilth movement has ebbed and flowed, with the central organization dissolving into statewide organizations in Oregon and Washington, and local chapters forming and fading away. Because of its decentralized, ecological strategy, however, Tilth has continued to adapt, survive, and thrive. Today Tilth is experiencing a resurgence parallel to the growth of the organic food and farming nationwide. The complete story by one of the founders, Mark Musick is on the Washington Tilth website select History.
All the Tilth organizations celebrated the 40th anniversary at the Tilth Producers Conference in November 2014. Mary Berry, Wendell’s daughter, was a keynote speaker.
See our chapters at: Oregon Tilth www.tilth.org Tilth Alliance www.seattletilth.org Sno-Valley Tilth www.snovalleytilth.org Vashon Island Growers Association www.vigavashon.org
Online newsletters The current newsletter issue is 2017 South Whidbey Tilth Summer News Contents Bringing Agricultural Items to the Fair
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August 13 at Tilth's Farmers' Market Featuring Sommer Harris and an Herbal Infused Oils Class
WiFi Is at Tilth!
...and like us! Please look for both South Whidbey Tilth and South Whidbey Tilth Farmers' Market.
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