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What we accomplished in 2011

With your enthusiastic support, our second year at Wild Willow Farm & Education Center saw lots of growth and development in our programs and facility:

Programs

1. 

   Established the farm field trip program and had over 1000 participants

2. Established a college-credit sustainable farming internship and taught 18+ interns

3. Formed a partnership with SoCal Shrooms for mushroom growing and workshops

4. Made the farm home to a large flock of chickens and ducks, and two friendly goats

5. Became a Regional Garden Education Center and taught over 50 people in gardening basics

Infrastructure

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  Built a fantastic outdoor kitchen with wood-fired pizza oven

• Received a donated trailer and established our farm office, library, and storage

• Assembled a donated greenhouse and put it to use

• Installed over 1000 feet of main-line irrigation and necessary plumbing system upgrades.

Staff

• Hired two new educational staff members, Lisa and Erynn

Events

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  Held 13 pubilic classes & worshops, including cooking, mushroom growing, beekeeping, natural building, fermentation, canning your harvest and more

• Invited community participation with eight monthly farm potlucks

• Hosted over 150 people at the second-annual Art of Agriculture Harvest Festival

• Hosted the Border Binational Health Week Inaugural Event.

Your generosity is instrumental to helping us achieve our 2012 goals:

Programs: Host overnight "farm camp" field trips; develop off-site "farmer-to-school field trips;" expand our internship opportunities and job training.

Infrastructure: Expand our rainwater harvesting system; install irrigation for our young fruit orchard; build a new tool shed; create hedgerows and windbreaks; develop raptor perches, bat boxes and reptile habitats; take down some hoop houses to create room for organizational partners to develop extended garden education and training programs.

Staff: Develop paid "advanced internships" in farming and education; create the job "volunteer coordinator;" expand our Board of Directors.

Events: Host even more special events and provide opportunities for community members to host their own at the farm.

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