Seattle Tilth
Wallingford
4649 Sunnyside Ave N Ste 100
Btwn 48th & 49th Streets
Seattle, Washington 98103
Wallingford
4649 Sunnyside Ave N Ste 100
Btwn 48th & 49th Streets
Seattle, Washington 98103
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Description
Seattle Tilth, Tilth Producers and Cascade Harvest Coalition have merged!
Our mission is to build an ecologically sound, economically viable and socially equitable food system.
The roots of Seattle Tilth go back to 1974 when a group of friends attended a symposium in Spokane on the state of American agriculture. The Kentucky farmer, poet and visionary Wendell Berry inspired the group with his comments about the need to change our relationship with the land and the food it produces. In follow-up communication, Berry challenged the group to “bring together individuals and organizations concerned with creating a better kind of agriculture,” in the hope that it “would be the start of something or other that would be useful."
Shortly after Berry’s call to action, the group adopted the name “Tilth” and organized the Northwest Conference on Alternative Agriculture. The conference drew more than 800 participants – many who would later become key figures in the Northwest’s ecological agriculture movement.
Three years later, in 1977, the Tilth Association was formally incorporated “to support and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture in the Pacific Northwest." By the next year, local Tilth chapters were formed in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington – including Seattle Tilth and its Urban Agriculture Center at the Good Shepard Center in Wallingford. While the parent association disbanded in 1984, Seattle Tilth and other local chapters continued to thrive.
Our mission is to build an ecologically sound, economically viable and socially equitable food system.
The roots of Seattle Tilth go back to 1974 when a group of friends attended a symposium in Spokane on the state of American agriculture. The Kentucky farmer, poet and visionary Wendell Berry inspired the group with his comments about the need to change our relationship with the land and the food it produces. In follow-up communication, Berry challenged the group to “bring together individuals and organizations concerned with creating a better kind of agriculture,” in the hope that it “would be the start of something or other that would be useful."
Shortly after Berry’s call to action, the group adopted the name “Tilth” and organized the Northwest Conference on Alternative Agriculture. The conference drew more than 800 participants – many who would later become key figures in the Northwest’s ecological agriculture movement.
Three years later, in 1977, the Tilth Association was formally incorporated “to support and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture in the Pacific Northwest." By the next year, local Tilth chapters were formed in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington – including Seattle Tilth and its Urban Agriculture Center at the Good Shepard Center in Wallingford. While the parent association disbanded in 1984, Seattle Tilth and other local chapters continued to thrive.
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