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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 ... Apprenticeship with Grow Whidbey South Whidbey Tilth is seeking an apprentice to work and learn on its 11+ acre sustainable agriculture campus. It is in affiliation with Grow Whidbey apprenticeship program in partnership with the South Whidbey School Farms and the Good Cheer Food Bank, apprentices will be participating in classes, workshops and field trips specifically designed to support their practical, hands-on learning and service. Applicants may download the job description here. Study Group Meets Again in January TBA Gather with fellow gardeners to discuss each month’s work in the garden. The Seattle Tilth Maritime Northwest Garden Guide provides a handy month-to-month to-do list, harvest list, recipes and food preservation ideas, and pests and problems to beware of. Together, we’ll unpack the information and share thoughts and questions on how it applies to our own gardens, getting a chance to learn from each other. Garden Guides are available for $16 which includers tax or plan to borrow one. Council of Trustees Next Meeting Is November 16 Join us at our next business meeting on Thursday, November 16 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 Tilth Fall Newsletter Contents Community Gardener Spotlight
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