UPCOMING EVENTS:
Farms Forever Art Show & Dinner: March 24, 2012
Farms Forever Art Show & Dinner
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Expo Center, Thurston County Fairgrounds
Mark your calendar! This year’s event will be the evening of Saturday March 24th at the Thurston County Fairground (Lacey) in the Expo Hall.
The South of the South Community Farm Land Trust is hosting a dinner and art auction gala this spring featuring art in the world of farming, food, or gardening. The event will feature an evening ticketed dinner of local seasonal food and topped off with homemade pies and live music. There will be a live auction of fine art and a silent auction of art, prints and other items.
Call for artists!
Please take a look at our call for art and if you are interested in participating please fill out the art entry form.
Registration information coming soon.
PAST EVENTS
SSCFLT Annual Meeting: Jan 27, 2012
Our next Annual Meeting will be held at the South Bay Grange on Friday evening January 27, 6 to 9 pm. This is a pot luck dinner with an update from the Food Summit by TJ Johnson.
Coming to the Table – A Community Food Summit
October 14th & 15th, 2011
October 14th will feature a giant community pot-luck on the streets of downtown Olympia, and environmental and agricultural expo, and a presentation by Mark Winnie – author of Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture and Closing the Food Gap – at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts
October 15th will be a ‘roll up your sleeves’ conference at the Thurston County Fairgrounds where we will learn about our current local food system, clarify our vision for the future, and start building the roadmap to get us from today to tomorrow.
The food summit will be the capstone of a series of events throughout the fall and summer that is called Focus on Food. Events leading up to the summit will include tours of local farms and gardens, events and programs at local Timberland Regional Libraries, discussion groups, and other opportunities to learn about the food system, our local food economy, and options for a more sustainable food future.
Visit www.sustainsouthsound.org to register and make sure you have a seat at the table as we plan our food future. Email Halli Winstead at hallilw@gmail.com if you have questions!
Thurston Crop Mob: September 17th, 2011:
South of the Sound Community Farm Land Trust invites you to attend the first “Thurston Crop Mob.” Spend half a day on a local sustainable farm, helping with planting, weeding, or harvesting, etc, while networking with other volunteers.
After a few hours of good hard work, we’ll share a delicious meal provided by the farmer. Once a month we’ll “mob” a different farm.
Crop Mobs are springing up around the country as the local food movement grows. The first Thurston Crop Mob will be held at Left Foot Organics on September 17th 2011. For more information or to RSVP, send an email to: communityfarmlandtrust@gmail.com
To learn more about the history of crop mobs visit: http://cropmob.org/about. For more information about Left Foot Organics go to: http://www.leftfootorganics.org>.
2011 Farm and Garden Tours
Spend the day seeing where some of our food comes from – and meet the people who grow it
- August 20th – Bicycle Tour (suggested transportation) of Urban Farms & Gardens – including Sunbreak Farm, Calliope Farm, Common Ground Farm, Kiwanis Food Bank Garden on the Capitol Campus, Wendell Berry Community Garden, & Piece by Piece Farm
- August 27th – Van Tour of Rural Farms – including Kirsop Farm, Left Foot Organics, Lincoln Creek Farm & Helsing Junction Farm
For more information or to register contact hallilw@gmail.com
