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Tehama Together Fall 2009 Newsletter Our Grand Opening! Well it's been almost a full year since our first meeting in January and we've come a long way and have accomplished quite a bit. Thanks to a very gracious Lynne Moule of Business Connections, Tehama Together has a home and we would like to invite you to attend it's Grand Opening on Wednesday, November 4th from 4pm-7pm. The new office is located in the Pine Street Plaza at 322 Pine Street , Suite L in downtown Red Bluff. Come enjoy food donated by local restaurants, local music talent, presentations and a raffle. If you've been away for awhile this is a great time to come visit, meet new members and get reacquainted with those you haven't seen in a while. Hope to see you there! Chris Pritchard Tehama (Almost) Together! Tehama Together is in the process of being incorporated as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to bring together the community and its resources to better meet the needs of Tehama County residents. To do this, we plan to establish a place where people can come together to promote health and nutrition through the use of local food products, to sponsor workshops of community interest and to develop a countywide information and referrel system. Community Garden Project Permaculture (permanent agriculture) practices began in the early 1970's and were pioneered/championed by Bill Mollison of Tasmania and David Homgren. They spent the next 10 years developing this very innovative yet practical earth science. Observations of natural systems (including those of Tasmanian aboriginals) as well as years of applying these concepts to a great number of ecosystems created some real solutions to nutrient depletion in soils while eliminating the need for chemical fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides. Properly designed systems became "sustainable" and produced a number of usable products without taxing the land they came from. Using these principles farm & food gardens become the best they can be. Our community garden will include a number of these methods. We will be planting natural windbreaks especially on the north end to help deflect damaging winds and cold fronts. "Fedges" (fruit producing hedges) will be used in front of these. Some fedge crops (like autumn olive) are very useful. Autumn olive produces edible fruit for people and livestock, a quality mulch from the leaves & pruned branches, and "fixes" nitrogen into the soil for other plants to use as well as being a natural windbreak hedge. Multi-purpose plants, plantings & ecosystems are what permaculture is all about. We plan on implementing as many of these ideas as we can. We will by 100% Organic using only natural fertilizers and OMRI approved (organic materials review institute) products for pest & disease control. Cover crops and "sheet mulching" will be utilized to help prevent weeds and to improve the soil. A number of Heirloom vegetables, fruits & herbs will be grown here as well as beneficial insect-friendly flowering nectar and pollen plants. We hope you can become a part of our project. Are You a Locavore and Don't Know It? Are you paying attention to what you eat and where it comes from? Today, many people are attempting to eat foods which are grown locally because of freshness and nutrient value, to reduce transportation costs and energy use and to support local agricultural efforts. About five years ago when this movement started gaining popularity, the term locavore was coined and became Oxford American Dictionary's 2007 word of the year. In establishing Tehama Together, one of the purposes identified was the promotion of health and nutrition through the use of local food products or the support of locavores. In this edition of our newsletter there are several articles which promote local food products. Read about our plans for a community garden, check out Tehama Trails, and put Pacific Farm's open house on your calendar. Also try out some local u-pick orchards. Tehama Trail An Agricultural journey through Northern California's Tehama County . Located in the fertile Northern Sacramento Valley , Tehama County is host to a diverse and rich eco system which yields some of the finest produce in the world. To showcase the County's agricultural interests, Rolling Hills Casino, Tehama County Farm Bureau and the Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce joined forces to produce the Tehama Trail map and brochure. The Tehama Trail is a journey that begins in Corning , visiting world-class olive and olive oil producers. A short trip to the east finds you in Vina where the Monks of the Abbey of New Clairveaux practice ancient traditions of grape growing and wine making. In the late 1800's Leland Stanford established the Great Vina Ranch at this site which had 2,800 acres planted in wine grapes, making Tehama County the home of the world's largest winery and vineyard. After leaving Vina, on the way north to the Volcanic Vineyards of Manton, there are several interesting stops on Highway 99 including orchards, shops, and produce stands. In Manton you can sample wines at the six wineries on the slopes of Mount Lassen and then follow the trail to historic Red Bluff copies of Tehama Trails are available at Tehama Together's office at 332 Pine Street in Red Bluff. Tehama Together Workshop: Do-In Course Date: January 9, 2010 Tehama Pulse If you know of an event that we haven't already listed, please email us: *Holiday Events *Public Hearings *Flu Clinics *School Board Meetings *Cooking Classes *Kids Holiday Camps *High School Sports *Fundraisers *Monthly Meetings *Support Groups Information, Please? How do you find out what is happening in Tehama County this weekend? How do you select a date for your event which doesn't conflict with four other organizations? Where do you go to find community services for employment, addiction, affordable housing options, support groups, food pantries, or help for an aging parent? These are dilemmas with which we are faced daily. In establishing Tehama Together it was decided that a centralized information and referral center would assist in making services more effective and accessible. As a community, we are fortunate that Tehama Pulse has been established to provide an online calendar of area events. Now efforts are being initiated to establish a local 2-1-1 service to give help and get help. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember telephone number that, where available, connects people with important community services and volunteer opportunities. Over half of Californians currently have such a system where every hour of every day they can find essential human services. While most of these services have been established in dense population centers, efforts are now being made to bring 2-1-1 to rural California . Tehama Together will host a meeting to explore the possibility of bringing 2-1-1 to Tehama County on Wednesday, January 6th at 3:00 pm at 332 Pine Street. Susan Wilson, who is spearheading Shasta County's 2-1-1 application, will join us to discuss the "ins and outs" of establishing a program. Please join us if your are interested in learning more about this program. |
Tehama Together Upcoming Schedule: **Board Meetings are open to everyone** Nov 4 4-7pm Grand Opening Nov 14 4-6pm Community Potluck Nov 18 1-3pm Board Meeting Dec 2 1-3pm Board Meeting Dec 12 4-6pm Community Potluck Dec 16 1-3pm Board Meeting Jan 6 3pm 2-1-1 Meeting Jan 9 10am Do-In Course Community Finds: Join the 705 other Tehama County residents who have joined the Red Bluff Free Cycle Yahoo Group. To do so, go to the link below and enter Red Bluff, CA.Together we can help reduce our landfill waste. Community Event: World March Activities in Red Bluff – A Bridge to the Future The World March is a proposal for unprecedented social mobilization for peace and nonviolence worldwide promoted by The Humanist Movement through one of its organizations The World Without Wars. Help create a new, nonviolent global consciousness here at home! Bring your participation and initiatives and join us to celebrate the arrival of the marchers in California – noon on Dec. 2 at Tehama County's Red Bluff Park of Study and Reflection (located off Antelope Boulevard, on the right going east, just past Hwy 36 to Mt. Lassen). Parks for Study and Reflection – Red Bluff Park is one of 5 regional parks around the world dedicated to studying and reflecting about the human being and their evolutionary possibilities toward a nonviolent world without discrimination of any kind. Meetings and workshops to study oneself and work towards social change are open to the public. Representatives of New Humanism and Silo's Message created the Parks and act around the world to promote the development of personal and social nonviolence. For more information and to get inspired by the Marchers on their travels through 90 countries go to: www.TheWorldMarch.org
Love at First Crush For more information go to: U-Pick Produce Later this fall you will be able to pick organic Satsuma Mandarins at the Whiteley Ranch at 23521 Pennsylvania Avenue in Corning . Phone 530-824-1222 for details. Each of our quarterly newsletters will feature a U-Pick column. Please contact us with information about your favorite sites. Upcoming Newsletter TT Executive Board |
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