Hopeful notes -by Kelly Sanderbeck, Development Director & Story Catcher There seems to be increasing hope for the 2012 Farm Bill to be more transparent and negotiable. And although it’s easy to dwell on the uphill battle we’re fighting for clean and local food, this movement will eventually gain its momentum, with fits and starts [read full article...]

PCC Farmland Trust is one among many local food and farm organizations that have signed on to a letter to Senator Patty Murray regarding the 2012 Farm Bill. The letter urges Senator Murray to take a leadership role in modifying the farm bill proposal that is currently being very aggressively rushed through the House and [read full article...]

–Melissa Campbell, Conservation Director Food and Farm policy is heating up this week as we’re on the eve of the Agriculture Committee fulfilling their goal of completing detailed food and farm bill legislation within two weeks – yes you heard that right, 2 weeks. This is usually a year plus process and they’d like to [read full article...]

The eat local network is offering Thanksgiving boxes full of ingredients grown within 125 miles of Seattle. This year’s offering is brimming with local, seasonal ingredients to cook up a fresh and delicious Thanksgiving Dinner, including Snoqualmie Valley vegetables and local cranberries, butter, flour, and nuts. You can even add a pastured, broad-breasted bronze turkey. [read full article...]

It’s a time of protest, it’s a time of change –by Kelly Sanderbeck, Development Director and Story-Catcher   Whether at Occupy Wall Street or GMO-Free Seattle, folks are starting to put their bodies and beliefs out in plain sight. Although the focus is scattered, the message is the same:  We Want Change. We want our [read full article...]

–by Alison Wesockes, Stewardship Program Americorps Intern On Saturday October 15, approximately 75 volunteers came out to Tahoma Farms in Orting, WA. The goal was to plant various native trees and shrubs on the farm to increase biodiversity and habitat, while improving water and air quality as well. The task at hand was large, but [read full article...]

  Here’s a video made by one of our supporters, Katherine Rode. She was asked to provide an alternate “voice”  in favor of  preserving farmland. So she asked 10 people the question “How do you feel about protecting local farmland?” Here’s what they had to say:

–by Kelly Sanderbeck, Development Director & Story Catcher ““…intense green, with great aromatic notes, bitter and spicy slightly accented; the most typical expression of our earth.”  –description of Capavento olive oil, from the Chianti Classico region I just returned from a trip to Italy with my mother-in-law. At 78, it was a trip of a [read full article...]

Everything old is new again… –by Kelly Sanderbeck, Development Director & Story-Catcher   “The food movement’s power is connection itself. Corporatism distances us from one another, from the earth—and even from our own bodies, tricking them to crave that which destroys them—while the food movement celebrates our reconnection.” Frances Moore Lappe, The Nation, 9/14/11 I’m [read full article...]