Dairy Creek Community Food Web

Join us for these October 2018 events! (Click the Event title for more info.)

October 15 Annual Harvest Swap 6 to 8pm at St Bede Church

Please bring a potluck dish and join us for our Fall Harvest and Food Swap at 6pm on Monday, October 15th. We welcome your extra produce and home preserved goods for an informal community exchange, too! Please label all homemade and canned goodies with your name and contact information, as well as canning date. Bring a favorite recipe to share and connect with our local gardening community. Everyone is welcome, so share the word with your friends and family.

October 20 11am to 1pm Farm Your School Garden Tour!

The Farm Your Yard: School Garden Tour will showcase the work that is being done to use our special local school gardens as learning spaces. In Forest Grove we are opening up five school gardens, and in Hillsboro two gardens will be open. This event is free to the public and we encourage everyone to attend! Kids activities and no-cost-to-enter raffles will also be part of the tour!

About Us:

The Dairy Creek Community Food Web, named for the Dairy Creek watershed, is a 501c3 non-profit organization that strives to make connections within the local food system.

The DCCFW’s mission is to promote the local food community in Western Washington County by exchanging knowledge and resources to grow, process, share and celebrate nourishing food.

We do this in the following five ways:

Strengthening local food systems by supporting pantries, agencies, and organizations.
Bringing schools, farms and gardens together to get the best of our harvests to our local kids.
Fostering the development of shared facilities like kitchens and public markets to enable a broader diversity of local food products to emerge.
Advocating for land use policies that promote growth and stability for local food systems.
Providing new and aspiring farmers with information and support as they develop their businesses.

To do this, the DCCFW provides educational programming, facilitates food harvest and cooking and food preservation workshops provided by OSU, and hosts community celebrations to promote local vendors. Partnerships with local governments, businesses, landowners, growers, gardeners, farmers, educators, and social service providers are essential in the creation of a more just, inclusive, extensive food network. Current community collaborations include the Forest Grove Grange, Adelante Mujeres, City of Forest Grove, FG/Cornelius Chamber of Commerce, Oregon Food Bank, Forest Grove Library, Meals On Wheels People, FG/Banks, faith community members, B St Permaculture Farm, Pacific University and the Forest Grove Senior & Community Center.

We envision a thriving food community in which all residents have the opportunity to grow, prepare and consume local food in order to support the health of the land and its people.

Accomplishments

Market Sprouts Kids Club Story:Salud America

http://www.communitycommons.org/groups/salud-america/heroes/market-sprouts-kids-club-grows-healthy-kids/

Publication: Western Washington County Community Food Assessment: Bridging the Gap Between Rural and Urban

Author and Researcher:
Jessica Abad , Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) AmeriCorps, Oregon Food Bank
Advisors:
Sharon Thornberry , Community Food Systems Manager, Oregon Food Bank
Megan Newell – Ching , Agency Capacity and Education Manger, Oregon Food Bank
Spencer Masterson , Community Resource Developer, Oregon Food Bank
Editors:
Megan Newell – Ching , Agency Capacity and Education Manger, Oregon Food Bank
Spencer Masterson , Community Resource Developer, Oregon Food Bank
Bruce Bartlett , Food System Activist, Citizen Participation Organization Leader, Native of Washington County.

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