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Winlock Meadows Farm
186 Tingle Road
Winlock, WA 98596
Email: winlockmeadowsfarm1
@yahoo.com
Phone
360-785-4927
Susie Kyle Owner/Operator Farmer &
Small Farm Activist
Virtual
Farmer's Market
2008
CSA Memberships
Delivery
Schedule
SUMMER 2008
Internship
Opportunities
Community-Farm
Raising Forum Olympia 12-10-06
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August 4, 2008
~ Local Flavors ~
…your farmer-run local food service concession stand
“Now Serving at Farmer’s Markets”
Wednesdays 11-2, Tumwater, Israel & Capital
Saturdays 9-2, Longview, Fairgrounds
Other locations to be announced (check website)
Menu
Veggie Burrito Wraps, Quesidillas w/Garlic Basil Dressing, Fresh
Fruit Smoothies, Local Raspberry-Mint Iced Tea, Farm Salads
w/Garlic Basil Dressing, Veggie Snack Boxes w/Garlic Basil Dip,
Fruit Snack Boxes w/Maple Yogurt.
Seasonal Surprises weekly.
$50 Meal Ticket: $45 ~ $100 Meal Ticket:
$85 plus a free lunch
...to help support the development of this
delicious and important project
www.WinlockMeadowsFarm.com
Email: winlockmeadowsfarm1@yahoo.com
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We are interested in creating a business design model where
a percentage of profits will be donated to a foundation whose
sole purpose is to create a funding stream to purchase development
rights in farmland.
In searching Paul Newman’s business I came across a link
for Humantis Wines that are sold for profit but benefit charity
– capitalism with a cause.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/08/NB228258.DTL
We are going to start Local Flavors with a simple business structure
and then explore ways to tie it to farmland preservation.
Anyone interested in participating in this in any way, please
let me know, whether it’s working at the stand, to venture
capital, a loan, purchasing a pre-paid Meal Ticket, support
of any kind to help it get on its feet.
Here’s to the next level in our local sustainable food
system!
There could be a fleet of these. We could have a food processing
plant as a green industry. Preserve our farmland, get it in
production, build a processing plant, have a local food court,
stock the shelves of the Co-op and local green stores with locally
grown and produced products.
Let’s do it!
Farmer Susie
www.FarmBankProject.com
Puget Sound Food Network!
WHAT: Food Network Project Launch-n-Lunch
WHEN: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
TIME: Noon to 2pm
WHERE: Rosabella's Garden Bakery
Please join us for lunch & the kick-off celebration of the
Puget Sound Food Network!
The launching of a new web-based project
enabling real-time communication between consumers, farmers,
and other participants in the Puget Sound regional food system—and
facilitating on-line food-related transactions—is set
for the first week of August.
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center (NABC) will launch
the creation of the Puget Sound Food Network at noon Wednesday,
August 6th, at Rosabella's Garden Bakery in Bow (8933 Farm to
Market Road).
Attending will be key food system participants, including representatives
of the farming, restaurant, and retail food sales industries.
U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Representative Rick Larsen, who
were instrumental in securing the funds to create the Network,
have also been invited to speak. The event will be co-hosted
by Rosabella's and Northwest Farm Credit Services.
The NABC on-line market access project, a regional network
of agricultural growers and producers, retailers, and food service
businesses, along with key infrastructure processing, storage,
and transportation providers, has received a $400,000 grant
as part of the 2007-'08 U.S. Department of Commerce appropriation.
NABC Executive Director David Bauermeister said, "The
market access project will serve a vital purpose—helping
rebuild the Puget Sound region's dysfunctional food system.
With skyrocketing fuel costs and increasing demand for locally
produced food, having easily accessible, on-line information
facilitating real-time transactions between food producers and
consumers will be a key element in the creation of an efficient
regional food system."
Bauermeister said the goals of the project are to "help
foster a regional food system that supports local agriculture
and provides healthy foods to local communities; increase access
to locally produced value-added products throughout the region,
and enhance the economic viability and sustainability of family
farms by providing new market opportunities."
Bauermeister said the federal funding will provide initial
capital to hire a project manager, build an internet-based network
to house the communications system, recruit buyers and sellers
to create transactions on-line, and promote the program to those
involved in agriculture in the region.
The NABC project focuses on the portion of the Puget Sound
region encompassing the 12 counties of Snohomish, Whatcom, King,
Island, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Kitsap, Thurston, Jefferson,
Mason, and Clallam. NABC staff will hold a series of community
meetings throughout the region beginning in August to encourage
food system participants and the public to be involved in the
network.
Also introduced on the 6th will be a new NABC-developed product,
Skagit Fresh Natural Sparkling Juice Beverages—100% natural,
carbonated fruit drinks—as an example of local products
that the on-line network will help bring to market. Local farmers
will both provide the fruit for the new beverage and own the
company that produces it.
For more information, connect to NABC at www.agbizcenter.org
or call 360.336.3752.
~Winlock Meadows
Farm~
Farm Club Memberships
…a way to be connected to and help support
a local farm
$100 - $500, based upon your ability to pay and commitment to
a local sustainable food system
Membership entitles you to:
· Personal invitation to member-only farm events (includes
CSA's too)
· Newsletter/Blog…password secured
· 10% discount on purchases: CSA memberships, produce,
Garlic Basil
Dressing, farm products, Local Flavors menu, dinners, farm events
Purpose of Farm Club Memberships
…to help forward and support the efforts to protect and
preserve farmland and small family farms, protect our food supply
and build our local sustainable food system
Email: winlockmeadowsfarm1@yahoo.com to sign
up
July 8, 2008
Coming Soon to the Tumwater Town Center Farmer's Market on
Wednesdays and the Cowlitz County Farmer's Market on Saturdays
in Longview!! "LOCAL FLAVORS"
- our very own version of a mobile food concession
stand where we will be serving local meals made from local produce,
featuring the fabulous flavors you know and have come to love
like our Garlic Basil Dressing-Dip-Spread-Marinade-Sauce. And
if you don't already know and love them, you're about to!
January, 2008
Welcome
to Winlock Meadows Farm
~ We are a small
family farm nestled in rural Southwest Washington dedicated to
the preservation of
small family farms since 1995 ~
We are currently offering 2008 Spring, Summer and
Year CSA
Memberships, and depending upon where you live we will deliver
it directly to your home or convenient pick-up location. Along
with seasonal produce we include Salad Greens w/Edible Flowers,
Stir Fry Mix, Dark Greens Blend and Garlic Basil Super Sauce.
More exciting local
food adventures in the works.
You'll find information about farmland preservation, classes,
events and community events all around supporting and enhancing
our local sustainable food system at Farm
Bank Project.
When you join our farm you'll be part of a team
that is working on creating a local sustainable food system for
everyone. At times, sometimes unpredictable, that takes
us off schedule, requiring flexibiltiy on your part. If that works/serves
you, then we're the farm for you. If not, there are many other
awesome CSA
farms in our area to choose from who have production as their
main focus. "Screening" each other before committing
to see if you are a match is a very good idea.
Urgent
Plea for Help
10-11-07
109,000 acres of Lewis County farmland at immediate
risk!
With 150,000 acres of agriculture land in consideration, the
Lewis County Planning Commission is recommending to the Board
of County Commissioners to set aside and protect only 41,000
acres, leaving 109,000 unprotected.
www.FarmBankProject.com
2006, October
VOTE
NO
On I-933 Alert
It's been a bountiful and delicious season. We're
nearing the end of our 2006 Summer CSA season and are now offering
2006/7 Winter CSA Memberships. We are also accepting members for
the month of October. You can sign up for a month, a season, plus
we're also now offering one year memberships, and substantial
discounts for ones paid in full.
We customize our shares to meet your family's
needs...some people want more, some people want less, some people
don't like kale and some people love kale, some people love the
cut up ready to eat mixes and others like chopping the veggies
themselves...you get the idea.
We have two sizes, a Mini designed for 1-2 people,
and a Deluxe good for 2-4, and of course it varies depending upon
your vegetable needs...vegetarians may want more, those new to
the seasonal vegetable world may want less
2006, April
It's been a long time since I've updated our website. The 2005
season found me focusing more on marketing and developing products
than on production. As a result, we have some great products to
offer you this 2006 season: Our Salad Greens w/Edible Flowers,
Stir Fry Mix and Dark Greens Blend...our ready-to-eat mixes that
are helping all of us to get more veggies and greens in to our
diet, easily...me included, and our on-it's-way to-being-a-hit
Garlic Basil Dressing/Dip/Spread/Marinade/Create, and more to
come .
Soon I'll have links for each of these great
products...fast food that's actually good for you. Actually
I don't think I even like the reference to fast food. Have you
heard about Slow Foods?
Carlo Petrini started Slow Foods in Rome, Italy in the late 1980's
when McDonald's was coming to Rome. An amazing now-international
organization worth familiarizing yourself with, including their
Ark and Presidia
where they preserve heirloom and native breeds, seeds, culture,
taste and more.
Carlo Petrini, not daunted by the enormity of
the project, decided (see what one person can do to impact a world...hint,
hint) to host a first ever world meeting of food communities where
he brought together 5000 food producers from 130 nations in October
of 2004, and I was one of the fortunate ones as a delegate from
the Olympia area to attend this event in Turin, Italy, called
the Terra
Madre.
(Well, that's all for tonight. To be continued.
Had to start somewhere). Farmer Susie
2005
Entering our seventh season, we are now offering our 2005 CSA
(Community Supported Agriculture) Memberships, we currently have
Winter CSA Shares available, and we will be selling at the Olympia
Farmer’s Market beginning April 1st. There are other very
exciting potentials on the horizon so I’ll keep you posted
as they develop.
Ever since I started my farm in 1995 I have been working on the
preservation of small family farms as well. It’s been a
balancing act learning how to farm and working on the bigger picture,
but it’s something I’ve been pulled to do.
I’m happy to announce that my efforts are beginning to come
into their own. I’m getting better at production. I’m
becoming known for some of my speciality products such as my Farm
Salad Mix w/Edible Flowers, Stir Fry Mix (a fast food that is
actually good for you too, imagine that!), Garlic Basil Dressing
we call “Knock Your Socks Off”, Wild Edible Greens,
and our homemade Lucky!! Dog Biscuits whose great ingredients
are as important as what’s not in them.
And finally this winter I’m able to focus some of my time
developing the Farm
Bank Project, the non-profit formed to support small family
farms, preserve farmland and to do projects that support farms
and build and strengthen our community at the same time. We are
hosting a Community-Farm
Raising Forum on January 29, 2005 in Olympia from 1-4 p.m.
and invite you to participate in some exciting grassroots efforts.
Come and share your wealth of knowledge and experiences, hopes
and dreams and be a part of shaping your future. Stay
tuned. There will be many more events and activities to come.
Buying locally is becoming much more popular, and now we're becoming
aware of the importance of producing locally. Since consuming
without producing is not sustainable, what do you think
of the idea of an Annual Small Family Farm Festival and Cottage
Industry Fair? Or maybe a Cottage Industry Market that’s
run like a farmer’s market but the vendors are anyone who
is producing a local product of any kind, owning and operating
a local small business, or supporting themselves from a home-based
business. more
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