Classes We’ve Taught:

Garden Planning (public, online, fees waived), Foraging on the Olympic Peninsula (public, online, fees waived), Troubleshoot your Garden (public, in person, free to all), Farm and Garden Pests (public, online, fees waived), Growing Your First Vegetable and Fruit Garden (National Academy of Sciences, online, fees waived), Soil Test Evaluation (public, in person, free), Applying for Agricultural Grants (public, in person, free), Nettle Harvesting with Carol’s Vegan Kitchen (ticketed, in person, financial aid available), Apple Harvesting and Fruit Tree Care (ticketed, in person, financial aid available), Growing Warm Season Crops (public, in person, free, offered in Spanish and English), Preserving the CSA Harvest (public, in person, free), Civic Minds + Creative Hearts; Local Food Makers (ticketed, in person, financial aid available), Cultivating Success: Is a Small Farm in Your Future (public, in person).

Educational Group Events We’ve Hosted or Co-Hosted:

Port Angeles Public School District Food Waste Recovery Week School Tours, Peninsula College Sociology of Food Course, Earth Week with PA High School Ecology Class, Lincoln High School Environmental Club, Clallam Growers’ Collective Workshops, WSU Extension’s Cultivating Success, Washington State Tilth Alliance Conferences and Panels. Composite Recycling Technology Center Field Tours, Nor’Wester Rotary Club Farm Talk.

Produce We’ve Donated:

We aim to donate about 15% of our harvests. Fresh food donations are made every week of the harvest season, and averaged around 700 lbs/year as of 2023. SisterLand donates produce to Food Not Bombs Port Angeles, Little Free Food Pantries, the Sequim Food Bank, and the Port Angeles Food Bank. In 2023, total donated ready-to-eat produce was valued at $2,600. In addition, we began opening up our fields to the WSU Clallam County Gleaners in Autumn of 2023.

Plants We’ve Donated:

We’ve partnered with Gente Unida and/or Comite de Derechos Humanos de Forks to grow and distribute culturally relevant food crops to Forks area gardeners every year since 2020. Through WSU Clallam County, we also arrange for the pick-up and delivery of thousands of SisterLand’s plant starts to hobby and professional growers every Spring and Summer. We’ve also happily donated plants to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s special events programming many years in a row, and to the Jamestown S’Klallam Traditional Foods Program.

Free Resources We’ve Given:

We’ve given gender-affirming undergarments to regional trans folks upon request (with matching support from Kelly Newhouse,) “grow guide” garden booklets in English and Spanish, selected titles published by Haymarket Books including “Not Too Late” and “Choice Words”, at-home composting support tutorials for phased-out compost pick-up subscribers, lightly-used clothing to Food Not Bombs and The Answer For Youth, organic heirloom seeds to Little Free Pantries, volunteer-created zines (Zinnia: All About Palestine) to Little Free Libraries and book stores in Tacoma and Port Townsend, and have offered extensive notes and additional reading resources to attendees of our online classes. We also proudly worked with our county health office and Food Not Bombs to offer COVID-19 vaccinations in public spaces.

Food Waste We’ve Recovered:

As of the start of 2024, we are diverting, sorting, processing, and distributing over 50 metric tons of kitchen waste per fiscal year. This is achieved with an at-cost compost pick-up subscription service for residents of Port Angeles, as well as through working partnerships with area restaurants (Welly’s, Rabbit Food, and Downriggers), grocers (Country Aire), and organizations (North Olympic Land Trust, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center). We operate and manage the Green Wheel Certification Program in partnership with the City of Port Angeles at not cost to participants.

Carbon Waste We’ve Recovered:

In 2022 and 2023, we estimate that over 70,000 lbs of corrugated cardboard was diverted and composted on site. As of 2024, we are partnered with Composite Recycling Technology Center to divert up to 400 cubic feet of wood waste per month free of charge.

Other Initiatives We’ve Supported with Staff Hours:

National Food Waste Recovery Week, Women in Red/WikiProject, Jefferson County Growers’ Network, Cultivating Change, PAFB Holiday Season Food Bank Drive, Bunkhouse Acres, Pride on the Pier, Upward Bound, The Port Angeles Senior Center.