Resources, Documents and Links

Island Farm Maps & Photos

• Day Road Public Farm Land Map

• Bainbridge Island 2012 Ag Land Map

• Johnson Farm Public Farm Land Map

• Island Center History and Photo-Gallery

Resources

Documents—

• Suyematsu Farmstead Planning Study

Community Resource Links—

• Island School Field Guide to BI Food Forest

• Kitsap Harvest Gleaning Program (Donate a Crop)

• Kitsap Conservation District

• WSU Extension -- Kitsap County Agriculture (small farms program)

• Open Space Taxation Act

• Current Use Taxation ( Do you qualify for reduced property taxes?)

Sustainable Products—

• Organix Solutions: Soil Biodegradable Mulch Film A sustainably-engineered solution for growers in need of a high-performance mulch film that continues to protect and support crops while eliminating the need for plastic-use. Made from 100% biopolymer materials that can be completely eaten by microbes in the soil and digested as natural content. TUV also proves the product leaves no traces of contamination or new pathogens. Once Organix A.G. Film soil biodegrades, it assimilates into the soil as organic matter: biomass, water, and CO2.

Articles

• Cider Makers Are Betting on Foraged Apples for Climate Resilience, Civil Eats, December 3, 2020

• Despite Many Challenges, the U.S. Has More Young Farmers Than it Did Five Years Ago, Civil Eats, Julia Hotz, Posted on: April 12, 2019

• Heal the Soil, Cool the Climate GreenAmerica.org, no publishing date

• Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture -October 7, 2018

• The Dorito Effect — The Surprising Truth About Food and Flavor -June 3, 2018

• An Apple Shows Just How Broken Our Food System Is -May 27, 2018

• In Whatcom County, farmers have much to say about urban-rural divide -January 10, 2018

• Millennials don't want to golf. They want to farm -November 07, 2017

• Who really owns American farmland? -July 31st, 2017

• Ethical Foods.com; 11 Ways To Eat More Local Foods In Season -29 Dec, 2016

• 12 Agrihoods Taking Farm-to-Table Living Mainstream -May 14, 2014

• Affordable Housing Bills Encounter Farmer Objections -February 10, 2016

Bees

• Pollinator Habitat in Agricultural Landscapes

  Resources & Reference Materials – Pacific Northwest - Xerces Society

• Pollinator Plants: Maritime Northwest Region -The Xerces Society

• Getting to Know Our Native Northwest Bees -Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, Summer 2016

• THE SPECIALISTS | Landscape Architecture Magazine -December 2018

• Recovery: Bringing Back Bumble Bees, -July 11, 2017, Cool Green Science, Smarter By Nature

• How conventional agriculture could make bees less resistant to disease.  -Apr 20, 2018, Anthropocene