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CFLT Values Community Farm Land Trust CFLT is a local membership based nonprofit dedicated to preserving local farmland and keeping it affordable and accessible for the next generation of farmers in the South Sound COMMUNITY COMUNIDAD Our mission is to promote RESILIENCE RESILIENCIA Local Food Farming Systems Preservation Outreach Partnerships Opportunities We work to The CFLT What is the Community Farm Land Trust OPPORTUNITY OPORTUNIDAD LOCAL LOCAL LEARNING PERPETUITY PERPETUIDAD APRENDIZAJE AFFORDABILITY ASEQUIBILIDAD JOY ALEGR A MEDIO AMBIENTE Save farmland forever Keep farmland affordable Keep farmland in production ENVIRONMENT EQUITY EQUIDAD Support viable agricultural economy and local food security DIVERSITY DIVERSIDAD Build community support for local food and healthy living wages for farm workers Create more diversity and equity in farming locally Our Vision Abundant productive sustainable local farmland providing healthy food for our community and contributing to a vibrant viable farm economy Visit communityfarmlandtrust org for the latest information 5

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The purchase of this land is a collaboration of important partners working together to conserve the land. Kirsop Farm - Colin Barricklow & Genine Bradwin (Farm #55) As CFLT's anchor tenant, Kirsop holds the 99 year Agricultural Ground Lease for most of the farmable acres. They own the farmhouse, a large loang shed, the former milking parlor, & a few other buildings. To learn more about how this property has beneted Kirsop's expansion, see page 65.A solar array, installed in November 2020, produces clean energy for farm use.Scatter Creek Farm & Conservancy (SCFC) Purchased: October 2013 Acres of Farmland Preserved: 147 acresWobbly Cart - Joseph Gabiou & Asha McElfresh (Farm #88) In 2016, Wobbly Cart purchased and upgraded "Building 8", a former dairy loang shed, which they currently use as a packing and washing station for fresh vegetables, refrigeration, CSA pick-up, & as a curing shed for specic fall produce.The current buildings are remnants of prior dairy operations from the 1930's.CFLT owns nearly 100 acres of prime farmland with water rights dedicated to sustainable local food production. Creekside Conservancy (CC) owns 48 acres bordering on the Chehalis River dedicated to conservation for wildlife, the protection of salmon habitat, & water quality in perpetuity.Celebrating 25 Years Community Farm Land Trust2022 Fresh From The Farm Guide2022199725 YEARSAt one time the James Family, immigrant farmers, owned a larger tract of land that included Scatter Creek Farm. The soil has always been very fertile & today is considered some of the best in the county, with over 2 ft of topsoil.8

GRuB (nonprot organization) Farm# 50 & 51 Land Purchased: June 2015 Acres of farmland preserved: 1.18 acrescommunityfarmlandtrust.orgKathleen O’Shaunessy and CFLT Board Member, Pat Labine, bought OBF in 1990 & owned it for 30 years. The land was transitioned through CFLT’s rst Agricultural Easement & preserved in perpetuity. Melissa & Nate, former OBF farm sta, bought the remaining value of the farm.Originally homesteaded from the late 1800’s. It has been farmed continuously ever since. To learn more about OBF, see page 68.OBF supports a high biodiversity with tide lands, grazed elds, gardens, hedgerows, wetlands, seasonal streams, & a mature forest plot.James Family Historic FarmlandPurchased: August 2021Amount of Farmland Preserved: 29 acresOur most recent farmland purchase was a portion of a 1852 Donation Land Claim to the James family. CFLT is excited to welcome new lessee Common Ground CSA (Farm #45). For more info about this acquisition: bit.ly/CFLTJamesFamilyHistoricFarmlandOyster Bay Farm (OBF/Farm #65)Nate Lewis & Melissa BarkerAgricultural Conservation Easement Established: December 2017Acres of Farmland Preserved: 39 acresA change in ownership on a portion of the land that GRuB was farming led to the purchase of 1.18 acres by CFLT. This allowed GRuB to keep growing on this land & continue their good work in the community.GRuB engages people of all ages in relationship-based programming around growing & preparing good food. They work at the intersection of food, education, and health systems to grow healthy food, people, and communities. Their primary focus is serving marginalized communities.CFLT - Celebrating 25 YearsTo learn more about GRuB, visit their website at: goodgrub.org9

through the labor of many and the support of its members. Along the way, the farm provided an entry point for quite a few young women farmers. Julie Puhich has been with Common Ground from the start. Julie fell into growing vegetables for market in her early 20's and is only a little surprised to nd herself still at it. Her mentor Jasper Martin, then in his late 70's, demonstrated clearly for her the joyful possibility of farming into old age. These days Common Ground is in transition to new ground and new ownership. In 2017 the CSA moved to south Thurston County while also beginning a hand-o to the next generation of farmers. Tierney Creech rst came to farming through an interest in food and community and has stayed for her love of physical work, mental challenge, and a life lived mostly outdoors. She arrived at Common Ground in 2013, having worked on farms from New Zealand to Orcas Island, and has dug in for the long haul.For the past ve seasons Tierney and Julie have been farming in tandem, with Tierney managing their Maytown eld and Julie their eld near Rochester. Enter the Community Farmland Trust (CFLT) in By Julie PuhichCommon Ground has a history nearly as long as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has been in the U.S. Born in 1990 from the collaboration of Dana Schuerholz, Carol Poole, Aggie Agapito, Nancy Laich, and Julie Puhich, Common Ground's home for its rst twenty-ve years was a farm on Olympia's west side. The rst season saw 50 members, a surfeit of vegetables, and the expectation that every member household would help out on the farm twice each season. The proximity to town was ideal for spawning community. A neighbor delivered CSA boxes to drop sites around Olympia in the farm's '68 Ford pickup with her two young children buckled in beside her. Soon a system evolved in which a few members traded regular harvest help for their shares. There were potlucks, harvest parties, and the Annual Potato Dig.Fast forward through many seasons of interns and apprentices, eld workers, and nascent collectives. Common Ground became an institution of sorts 2021, with a successful bid to purchase part of the historic James family farm adjacent to their Rochester elds. Common Ground CSA has now become the lessee of this new CFLT acquisition. The farm includes both prairie ground, where they grow vegetables, and ood plain, now in hay. Magnicent Garry Oaks line a terrace between the elds, tracing a former course of the Chehalis River. Beyond the lower eld lies the river itself, a wild thicket of woodland in between.For Tierney and Julie, the opportunity to farm this ground presents itself as both a gift and a challenge. With it comes room for year-long fallow rotations and the security of a long-term lease. They are jazzed to resume the relative ease of farming mostly in one place, and of working together most days. Yet this land is simultaneously the traditional homeland of the Q'way'a yilq', or Upper Chehalis Peoples, and part of an 1852 Territorial Land Grant made to immigrant settlers. For the Common Ground farmers, this legacy feels ambiguous and complicated. Their intention and hope in becoming lessees are to broaden their understanding of that legacy and the community they serve, and to nd a way within their work to address it.communityfarmlandtrust.orgCommon GroundNew CFLT Leasee!10

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