The New Fresh from the Farm Guide is finally here!
We are so excited to announce the 2021 Fresh from the Farm Guide: A South Sound Food & Farm Resource Guide is now hot of the presses and just in time for market season! You may have noticed that we have a new name this year and along with that we have some great new features inside as well. We've redesigned & rebranded in an effort to make our publication even more user-friendly while celebrating the rich agricultural diversity of our land, our farm products/services, and our farming community. We hope you enjoy it and it becomes a staple to all things farm and food in your community! Be sure to check our Facebook Page for lists of places you can pick up this year's guide near you! We are already looking for cover artist for next year's guide. If you or someone you know is interested in this opportunity, please contact jeanine@sscflt.org!
2021 Annual Meeting
Thank you for attending our Annual Meeting. The PowerPoint presentations from CFLT and Jennifer Davis are below if you couldn't make it to the meeting.
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Thank you for supporting the Community Farm Land Trust. I hope you and your family are doing well.
You are hearing over and over, these are unprecedented times. Our normal daily tasks like going to the grocery store are now a difficult endeavor. Leaving the safe bubble of your home, standing in line to get into the store, wearing a mask, one-way aisles, social distancing at the checkout, and plexiglass between you and the cashier are your new normal. Who could have predicted that there would be empty shelves in the grocery stores?
I’m sure all these challenges made you re-think the way you are doing your shopping. Now more than ever, buying your food locally in less crowded venues like farmers markets, farm stands, or picking up CSA boxes benefits you and your family and supports our local farmers.
Kirsop Farms (on Thurston County land preserved by the Community Farmland Trust), Harbor Roots Farms in Grays Harbor County, and many more farms in our area not only provide fresh, vibrant, local food for our community but to our food banks too.
The Community Farm Land Trust supports these farms with educational outreach and partnerships that increase opportunities for the farms and farmers. But most importantly, your support helps us preserve farmland forever and ensure it’s affordable and farmed now and by future generations of farmers in the South Sound.
We have already preserved 186 acres of farmland, and with your help and donations and grants from our community the Community Farm Land Trust’s accomplishments in 2020 include:
You are hearing over and over, these are unprecedented times. Our normal daily tasks like going to the grocery store are now a difficult endeavor. Leaving the safe bubble of your home, standing in line to get into the store, wearing a mask, one-way aisles, social distancing at the checkout, and plexiglass between you and the cashier are your new normal. Who could have predicted that there would be empty shelves in the grocery stores?
I’m sure all these challenges made you re-think the way you are doing your shopping. Now more than ever, buying your food locally in less crowded venues like farmers markets, farm stands, or picking up CSA boxes benefits you and your family and supports our local farmers.
Kirsop Farms (on Thurston County land preserved by the Community Farmland Trust), Harbor Roots Farms in Grays Harbor County, and many more farms in our area not only provide fresh, vibrant, local food for our community but to our food banks too.
The Community Farm Land Trust supports these farms with educational outreach and partnerships that increase opportunities for the farms and farmers. But most importantly, your support helps us preserve farmland forever and ensure it’s affordable and farmed now and by future generations of farmers in the South Sound.
We have already preserved 186 acres of farmland, and with your help and donations and grants from our community the Community Farm Land Trust’s accomplishments in 2020 include:
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We need your support to continue the Community Farm Land Trust’s work to expand programs that benefit local farmers and residents in Thurston, Lewis, Mason, and Grays Harbor Counties.
2020 has taught us that we are a community and we must support one another and work together. I hope that you can make a gift to the Community Farm Land Trust this holiday season.
Thank you for everything you do to support our farming community today and every day! I hope you have a joyful holiday season and please stay healthy and safe.
With gratitude,
Patrick Rofe, Executive Director
P.S. Your gift today will ensure we keep abundant, productive, sustainable farmland in our area that will provide healthy food for our community.
2020 has taught us that we are a community and we must support one another and work together. I hope that you can make a gift to the Community Farm Land Trust this holiday season.
Thank you for everything you do to support our farming community today and every day! I hope you have a joyful holiday season and please stay healthy and safe.
With gratitude,
Patrick Rofe, Executive Director
P.S. Your gift today will ensure we keep abundant, productive, sustainable farmland in our area that will provide healthy food for our community.
Introducing the New & Improved...
Fresh from the Farm Guide: A South Sound Food & Farm Resource Guide
(formerly South Sound Farm Map or South Sound Direct Sales Farm Map)
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Thanks for welcoming the new Fresh from the Farm: A South Sound Food Farm Resource Guide (formerly the South Sound Farm Map or South Sound Direct Sales Farm Map) into your homes, work, and lives.This project has undergone quite the transformation in the past two years and with that we felt like it deserved a new name that highlighted what it had become; a resource guide for all different kinds of things. We are excited to share useful information about our organization, Farmer stories and highlights, agricultural stats, Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) Programs, Food Access & Nutrition Programs, Food Bank Guide, Farmers' Market Guide and so much more!
In an effort to get our guides out when it matters most to farmers at the beginning of the season, we are encouraging all farms to submit their listings ASAP! The sooner you get your forms into us the sooner we can get to the printer and have our guides out by Spring so that we can help highlight your farms at the start of the season instead of halfway through the season! Submit your listing for our 2021 CFLT Farm Map by December 15th! We hope that this shift will also be easier on your pocketbooks towards the end of your selling season. |
This cover is just a mock up to showcase our new name!
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Check out our video explaining the different ways the Community Farmland Trust helps preserve local farmland!
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Our Mission: Promoting vibrant local food and farming systems through community supported farmland preservation strategies, educational outreach, and partnerships that increase opportunities for farms and farmers to flourish.
Our Vision: Abundant, productive, sustainable local farmland providing healthy food for our community and contributing to a vibrant, viable farm economy. 
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From a 1 acre urban garden that produces over 10,000 pounds of food a year to hundred acre parcels associated with dairies or livestock production, Thurston county has – and needs – a diversity of farms and farmers. Farmland provides local foods, local economies, and open space. Future plans for the county define how many new roads, sewers, and schools will be needed, but what about farmland? As Thurston County continues to grow, development pressure on farmland will only increase.
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Support Farmland
We save farmland because our community enables us to do so.
Thank you for your trust in our stewardship of your contribution toward promoting farms and farming forever in our region. 
Or through PayPal:
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Get InvolvedThere are many ways that you can support local sustainable farms. Volunteer opportunities are plentiful, so you're sure to find a way to share your skills and enthusiasm.
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