OPEN HOUSE - Leave your checkbook at home!

Friday July 22, 2011, 6-8 pm
11122 Case Road SW, Olympia WA 98512

Featuring: Executive chef Ralph Lund and Chef Dan of the Falls Terrace, oysters on the grill, salmon, farm fresh hors d'oeuvres and beverages.

Be our Guest - Passports issued to all 'Travellers' - Prizes!!

RSVP by emailing to the farm at info@leftfootorganics.org

For more info see flyer or call 360-754-1849

Saturday, May 7, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
11122 Case Rd SW, Olympia 98512
Near Scott Lake (exit 99 off I-5, 93rd Ave)

Certified organic vegetable starts, herbs, salad bowls, native plants and flowers. All proceeds help us continue to serve the vocational needs of people with disabilities and rural youth.

For more info see flyer or call 360-754-1849

7:30pm, April 16, 2011, Washington Center for the Performing Arts
7:00pm, Pre-concert Lecture

Community Spotlight on Left Foot Organics

To highlight its 30th anniversary season, Masterworks premieres the newly commissioned Wingspan: Personal Dreams, Universal Visions. Wingspan embodies a pilgrimage, a spiritual journey through life. Wingspan sets forth from the image of a golden eagle and follows in five movements the arc of: Resting, Rising, Soaring, Descending, Landing Again.

As part of this concert's celebration MCE reprises its 2006 commissioned work, Come, Union: An Exploration of Living in Gratitude, Being of Service. This eight-movement song cycle for choir and orchestra explores expansive themes of humanity and spirituality. Both Wingspan and Come, Union feature lyrics by Vonda Witley, music by Gary Witley, and orchestration by Mark Thome.

The Masterworks Choral Ensemble (MCE) is an adult Southwest Washington chorus dedicated to performance, community service, music education, and leadership in the arts. Each concert spotlights a local organization doing good works in the community, with whom the MCE shares the concert proceeds. Left Foot is priveleged to be in the spotlight for their 30th anniversary spring performance. Come experience this beautiful choral concert and support Left Foot.

Tickets: $18 Adult / $15 Seniors and Students - - Box Office: 753-8586 - - http://www.MCE.org

Saturday, December 11th, 10:00 am To 3:00 pm
The Olympia Center ~ 222 Columbia St NW Downtown Olympia

Help build a home, feed a family, provide affordable healthcare.

Tired of commercialized gift giving? Give a gift in someone’s name from non-profit organizations which... help the homeless, protect the environment, and educate the community.

Participating non-profits: Habitat for Humanity, Heifer Project, SERRV, South Sound Reading Foundation, Little Red Schoolhouse, GRuB, YWCA’s UCAN, The Crisis Clinic, Furniture Bank, Thurston County Food Bank, Black Hills Audubon Society, People for Puget Sound, Left Foot Organics, Mason County Literacy Network,Partners in Prevention, South Sound Senior Services, HorsePower! and more

Sponsored by The United Churches of Olympia - For additional information please call Debbie Nickerson at 360.754.5397

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Friday, December, 10th, noon
Meeting Room at the Olympia Timberline Library
313 8th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501

No RSVP required, bring a sack lunch.

This year the Masterworks Choral Ensemble has chosen Left Foot Organics, along with Mason County Literacy, The Dispute Resolution Center, and Capitol Land Trust to receive a portion of their season's proceeds. We are very grateful for their support! Please show your appreciation by attending their concerts. You'll be supporting the arts and Left Foot at the same time!

Masterworks Choral Ensemble will soon open its 30th anniversary season – and with a flourish! Mark the date: on Saturday, October 16 MCE presents "Love, Lament, Laughter and Light" at the Washington Center. The four-part concert program is a testament to the power of music to delight, to lift us up, to open our hearts to love, and to touch those dimensions of the soul that music alone can reach.

The concert follows through on each of the four themes invoked in the title. The first part, "Love," begins with If Music Be the Food of Love, with the first line "If music be the food of love, sing on 'till I am filled with joy." This memorable line would seem to sum up the joyous experience of those who sing in Masterworks. The song Wondrous Love follows, an arrangement of a traditional hymn from choral legends Alice Parker and Robert Shaw. Also in this section of the concert, piano soloist and youth contest winner Theo Ragan will perform Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23, No. 5.

The second part of the concert, "Lament," presents three heartfelt songs. One is an arrangement of the traditional Appalachian song Every Night (When the Sun goes down), a song about faith transcending sorrow and peace overcoming suffering and pain. The song From There, with lyrics by Dina Soraya Gregory, is dedicated to the memory of the lyricist's father. The lyrics run, in part "From there, pray don't sense my saddened heart. Know this, that my loves goes on...." This section of the concert closes with the powerful If You Search With All Your Heart, its text based on Jeremiah 29:11-14, with music by Craig Courtney. This deeply personal anthem speaks to God's sustaining mercy in times of deepest grief and sorry.

"Laughter" propels the serious offstage, beginning with Lambscapes, four hilarious settings of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the styles of a Gregorian Chant, a Handel oratorio, a Schubert art song, and a Verdi aria – all sung by the Singers Ensemble. The Fall is a compact and hilariously ironic song, out of The Tunnel: Selected Poems, by eminent prose poet Russell Edson. More laughs erupt from Grumble Too Much, a Jamaican folk song with percussion that follows a dialogue between men ("woman is a people grumble too much!") and women ("we don't grumble, no we never ever grumble too much!")

And finally "Light," with five songs, completes the evening's cycle of the four "L's." "Light" begins with Sure on This Shining Night by Morten Lauridsen, a contemporary American composer of great renown. "Light" includes Tu Solus: Many Paths, One God, a luminous meditation on the oneness of God in all the world's religions. This song is followed by And in the Evening, adapted from the poetry of William Blake and rendering musically the mystical nature of dreams juxtaposed with the awe-inspiring vastness of the star-filled night sky. "Light" concludes with Roger Ames' brilliant choral fantasy on the standard, Amazing Grace.

Also in October, you can help celebrate Masterworks' three decades of musical excellence at MCE's 30th Anniversary Dinner – Saturday, October 30 from 5pm to 10pm at The Olympia Center downtown. You'll be treated to a superb meal from Panorama's Chambers House Restaurant, and a no-host bar will offer an apt array of celebratory libations. The stylish dinner event includes both a silent auction and live auction (led by famed host and auctioneer, Larry Flynn).

Season and individual concert tickets, as well as tickets for the 30th Anniversary Dinner/Auction, are on sale online now at Masterworks secure website (www.MCE.org). You can also purchase individual concert tickets at the Washington Center Box Office, 512 Washington Street SE, Olympia, (360-753-8586) or online via the Washington Center's website: https://tickets.washingtoncenter.org/Online/

For more information about Masterworks Choral Ensemble, visit the MCE website at http://www.mce.org/

Fun Farm Formal - Benefit Dinner and Auction

Saturday, October 9, 5:30 pm
The Student Union at South Puget Sound Community College
2011 Mottman Rd SW, Olympia WA

Farm Formal Attire: jazz up your jeans, shine your boots, and press your petticoats! A barbeque, including wild salmon from Wilson Fish and fresh produce from the farm. Plus many fabulous items for silent and live auction.

Get you tickets early and save!

$40 each by Sept. 1st ($75 for couples), $45 each after Sept. 1st

Thursday, September 16th, starting at 7pm
The Mark - 407 Columbia St SW - Olympia, WA 98502 - http://www.themarkolympia.com

Washington Organic Week

Washington Organic Week, or WOW!, is a week long campaign connecting consumers to Washington Organic growers and products. WOW! provides the public with opportunities to learn more about the healthiest, freshest, and most environmentally friendly food available.

Join us for an evening of community education, a fine art photography opening, and organic activism! For dinner reservations, please call 360.754.4414

Art Opening with Guest Speakers:

• Anne Vanderman, PhD, Executive Director of Left Foot Organics - "The Role of Organic Farmers in Our Local Food System"
• Connie Allison, Membership and Outreach Director of Farms Forever out of the South Sound Community Farm Land Trust - "How Farm Land Trust Can Preserve Farmland"

Sunday, Aug 22nd, 4:00 pm
Left Foot Organics Farm

All proceeds will be used to send Ann Vandeman of Left Foot Organics to Terra Madre 2010! Go to http://slowfoodolympia.org/ or call 878-8097 for info and to RSVP. Suggested donation of $55 per ticket. A Greater Olympia Slow Food Fundraiser.

Feast Donated and Prepared by Local Farmers and Chefs

• Colvin Ranch grass-fed beef prepared by Southbay BBQ
• Oakland Bay Farm pastured chicken prepared by Southbay BBQ
• Hand made pasta prepared by Basilico Ristorante
• Kirsop Farm seasonal vegetarian entrée prepared by Acqua Via
• Artisan breads prepared by Portofino Restaurant
• Olympic Mountain Ice Cream
• Wines to accompany

Hi Left Footers,

Please help spread the word and invite friends to this year's Alternative Gift Fair on December 12th from 10am to 3pm at the Olympia Center. United Churches of Olympia generously hosts this annual event, where holiday "shoppers" give gifts of financial support for local charities instead of stuff. All the proceeds go to participating charities. Left Foot will be there. This can be a significant end of the year boost for our budget, and it's easy and fun! Just print out and post the flyer.

Thanks!

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Join us for the 4th Annual

"Fun Farm Formal" Benefit Dinner and Auction

Farm Casual - press your jeans, shine your boots!

The Student Union at South Puget Sound Community College
2011 Mottman Rd SW, Olympia WA

A barbeque, including wild caught salmon from Wilson Fish and fresh produce from the farm

Tickets $45

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Mother's Weekend Plant Sale

Veggie starts, herbs, native plants, and flowers are available for purchase to surprise your mother. All proceeds go to help Left Foot to continue to serve the vocational needs of people with disabilities and rural youth.

Get Involved: Community Farm Co-ops

Interested in:

• Access to land
• Cooperative farming
• Marketing with other farmers
• Sharing farm equipment
• Farmland preservation
• Community based Ag
• Becoming a farmer

Olympia Library
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501

For more info, Contact Ben Guss 360-943-4241

Hosted by:
South of the Sound Community Farm Land Trust
Northwest Co-op Development Center

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How Sweet It Is!
the South Sound Buddhist Peace Fellowship's
Second Annual Dessert Potluck
and Silent Auction!

A Fun Fundraiser for both Left Foot Organics & South Sound Buddhist Peace Fellowship

At the Bodhi House 4846 Johnson Point Rd., NE Olympia 360-459-1967

Find new treasures, discover wonderful services and enjoy delicious desserts, mingle, enjoy the music - all while benefiting two worthy causes...

Left Foot Organics is a non-profit yummy food growing CSA/farm in Olympia that provides a Vocational Horticultural Therapy Program for people of all abilities. Check them out at www.leftfootorganics.org

South Sound Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a non-profit chapter of an international organization that is devoted to peace and social justice issues. We've been active locally since 2005, check out our web site at www.ssbpf.org

If you have swell items, services or a dessert you'd like to donate please contact us at 459-1967 or email ssbpf@comcast.net. It's not too late!

Or just arrive with 2 desserts, one to sample, and one to sell. We can make up last minute bid sheets if you end up thinking of an item or service to donate that you didn't have time to let us know about. Bring your checkbook and a desire to hangout. Or bring nothing and just come have fun with us!!!!!

South Sound Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Robert Lovitt, contact person
ssbpf@comcast.net
www.ssbpf.org
360-357-2825

The Olympia Premiere of the Award Winning Documentary:
GOOD FOOD

JOIN US for the screening of the film and a Community Discussion regarding sustainable food and farming in the Pacific Northwest.

Where: Saint Martin University - Worthington Center

$15 dollars in Advance
$20 dollars at the Door

Light Refreshments are included
Film starts at 5:30 sharp

Event Highlights

• Preview the Award Winning Documentary Good Food
• Connect with local community farmers, suppliers & restaurants
• Receive valuable "How To" Good Food Packet
• Discover new ways to eat healthy, shop smart, and enjoy local sustainably-raised food!
• Community Discussion Panel including featured CSA farms, local restaurateurs and grocers

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South of the Sound Community Farm Land Trust

Annual Membership Meeting, Potluck, and Dance Party!

Learn more about preserving our local farms and farmland

South Bay Grange Hall
3918 Sleater-Kinney Road NE Olympia

Contact our Membership Coordinator for more details mailto:Caitlin.Krenn@gmail.com - 360-402-0302

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Left Foot Volunteer Workparty

Workparty, a hot lunch and afternoon Pruning workshop

Master Gardener and CSA member Shanna Winters will give a hands-on workshop on backyard fruit tree pruning. Prune to repair winter damage to limbs, promote healthy growth and increase fruit set.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Workparty and a hot lunch – a day on, not a day off!

FUEL - Change Your Fuel... Change the World

• Open Jan 9th
• Capitol Theater
• Olympia Film Society

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Help us get ready for the winter: with some important farm clean up. We also will be doing a workshop on raising chickens in your back yard.

Annual Fun Farm Formal Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction

• Saturday October 18, 6pm
• Thurston County Fairgrounds Expo Center - directions
• Tickets ($45, same price as last year) available now. Call the farm or use PayPal to reserve your tickets now, use the Donate button to purchase your Fun Farm Formal tickets on this website. Click on the donate button from anywhere on our website. After entering the dollar amount and other required information, add a note in the comment section telling how many tickets you want to purchase and how many you wish to donate for our growers and youth to attend. See you there! Thanks so much for your support.

Pumpkin decorating for the fundraiser.
This Saturday (October 11) we'll be making centerpieces for the fundraiser on October 18. The volunteer day begins at 10am, with a pumpkin decorating workshop 1 – 3pm.

Chicken Tractor

Please join us for the last day of Summer and help with projects and learn how to build a portable chicken coup (chicken tractor)...

Left Foot Pizza Party

• In the garden at Fertile Ground Guesthouse, 311 9th Ave.
• Personal pizza made to order, salads and beverages
• Adults $10, Kids $5, Families $25

Mothers Day Weekend Plant Sale!

veggie starts, herb boxes, native plants and flowers
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All proceeds go to help Left Foot continue to serve the vocational needs of people with disabilities and rural youth.

Come and help us plant potatoes in the morning and join us for a Mushroom Cultivation Workshop put on by Fungi Perfecti in the afternoon.

Come out and help prepare us for our next growing season. We also will be putting on a workshop on Propagation of Plants. Learn how to do cuttings, graphing and air layering.

Come lend a hand on National Volunteer Day. We will be doing varying tasks:

• Green house building
• Small Construction Projects
• And other fun task.

Help save our Blueberries before the rain washes them away! We need your help relocating our blueberries. We also have a lot of little task we need to take care of before Old Man Winter comes.

Left Foot's Second Annual "Farm Formal" Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction

It's a FarmAll!

When:	Saturday, October 27 at 6:00pm
Where:	South Puget Sound Community College, College Center Bldg.