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Sacred Heart Garden Summer Garden Work Days
Food Roots invites volunteer gardeners (or gardener wannabes) to join us on Wednesdays, from June 22nd to the end of the season, from 10am – 12pm to help out at the Sacred Heart Garden. The garden is located at the corner of Ocean and Fourth Streets in Tillamook. Volunteering at the garden is a great way to learn or grow your gardening skills, be active, make connections with other gardeners and support your community. The produce from this garden benefits those in need – it is distributed through local food pantries and other programs that serve low income families.
Dirt and Grub – Garden Work Parties and Potluck
On the Fourth Thursdays of June, July, and August, from 5-7pm, at the Sacred Heart Garden, Food Roots will be hosting an evening garden work party and potluck. Join community members for gardening and socializing while learning more about Food Roots Programs. The garden is located at the corner of Ocean and Fourth Streets in Tillamook. Please bring a dish to share. Food Roots will provide serving utensils.
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Food Roots Welcomes Two AmeriCorps Volunteers for the Summer
Kyle Puckhaber is the new AmeriCorps Youth Garden LINKS volunteer from De Pere, Wisconsin. He graduated in December 2009 from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire with a degree in Philosophy. In his free time he enjoys hiking, cycling, gardening, and camping. He is excited to make a contribution to the Tillamook community.
Fumie Hiromitsu grew up in Denver, Colorado and just graduated from Colorado State University in Fort Collins with a degree in Environmental Communication. She enjoys being outside, rock climbing and riding her bike. Her interest in gardening and food systems grew out of her desire to get dirt under her fingernails and be more involved in community. She's excited to be in Tillamook for the summer as the Youth Micro-Enterprise AmeriCorps volunteer for Food Roots.
Food Roots is seeking additional board
members
Have a love for gardening, food, or just want to promote a sustainable food system? Or do you have a special skill that you could bring to the Food Roots Board?
Call for more details and board application. Click to view Board
Application*. [PDF]
North Oregon Coast Food Guide
NOW AVAILABLE the North Oregon Coast Food Guide featuring Tillamook and Clatsop local food producers.
Click here to
view/download*. [PDF]
Looking to Start or Expand a Food System Business? Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) For 2010
Food Roots can help you with their Individual Development Account (IDA) program. This is a matched savings program that enables low to moderate income families/individuals to save and either start or expand their small, Tillamook County, food system kind of business. Participants are committed to saving a minimum of $25 a month for six to thirty-six months with a 3:1 match rate. Participants can save $1,000 a year and up to $3,000 in the program for a total of $9,000 in matched money to assist with their business. The accounts are not loans; the money need not be paid back. Additionally, participants must write a business plan and participate in free trainings on financial literacy and running a small business. Technical assistance and support will be provided by Food Roots and Community Partners. Food Roots is continuously seeking participants for the program.
Support Food Roots by purchasing our Farm and Food Heritage Cards and Food Roots T-shirts!
Heritage Cards - A set includes eight greeting cards and envelopes that each features a different black and white historic photo of the Tillamook Food System. $9 per set. Order via PayPal! Shipping to the continental United States only.
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Newsletter and Mailing List
View the Winter/Spring 2010 edition of our newsletter, The Beet*.
If you would like to receive the Food Roots Newsletter, please
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View current edition of The Beet*.
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