KECP: Growing our Local Food Network | 3.16.2025
KEC • March 16, 2025
KEC Presents at the Village Green
SPEAKERS:
Diane Fish, Kitsap County Conservation District – History of Ag in Kitsap County
Bob Gilby, Rokalu Farm– Composting and Farm Succession
Kathy Curry, Farrago Farm – the Giving Garden
Kitsap Farmland Preservation Coalition
WHEN: Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 3-5 pm
- WHERE: Kingston Village Green Community Center
- 26159 Dulay Road NE, Kingston, WA 98346
- REFRESHMENTS: Bring your favorite snacks to share
- FOOD DONATION: Please bring a food donation for Fishline and ShareNet (List of most needed items)
- POSTER: Download, print & share
Agriculture is on the front lines of a changing climate, and Kitsap County’s Year of the Rural. Local and sustainable farming will be a necessity to make Kitsap County more resilient as our weather and climate changes. Join us in discovering the food webs in our county and engaging with local farmers in their needs to help make our local areas sustainable.
In-progress list of farm and local Ag groups invited to share information (may change with updates).
- Around the Table Farm: Dana Steege-Jackson
- Dusk to Dawn: Maia Ostrom
- Fat Turnip Farms: Bryan Custer
- Fishline: Jessica Trevino, Amelia Stites
- Full Tilth Farm: Renee Ziemann and Becky Zaneski
- Grow-A-Row / KitsapHarvest: Laurie Davis
- Kitsap Community and Agricultural Alliance: Karissa Holcombe
- Kitsap Farm Preservation Coalition
- Kitsap Fresh: Julia Zander
- Sage and Willow Farm (formerly Smithshyre): Roni Ryan
- ShareNet: Mark Ince
- The Giving Garden: Kathy Curry
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