EARLY SPRING NEWSLETTER

Crocuses are one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring!

Can you believe it's almost the spring equinox? We hope you are all finding some time for tending to the land, each other, and yourself — to be outside and rejuvenate with the emerging plants and sunshine.

The Tarweed Steering Committee has been hard at work this winter, taking a deep dive into some strategic planning and organizational capacity building. Later this spring we will reach out with class dates and our 2025 lineup, but for now we want to highlight a few upcoming events in the community that you won't want to miss!

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LAST WEEK OF OUR GIVING AND STORYTELLING SERIES!

Rose teaching her Pack Basket Weaving class (Summer 2023).

Thank you to everyone for their support thus far in our 2024 year-end series! Over the past five weeks, all but one of our Steering Committee members have shared their stories and connections with Tarweed Folk School in a weekly installment of email newsletters.

To close off our storytelling series for this year, Steering Committee member Rose Holdorf will share her telling of the Tarweed story, and how we all came together to build our past two years.

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KULEANA: A DUTY TO TAKE CARE OF THE LAND AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU

Daniel and other students in Kiko Denzer's Intro to Scything class (Summer 2023).

This week, our Steering Committee member Daniel Pono Takamori shares why tending to the land and each other is at the heart of his contributions to Tarweed in his submission to our storytelling series. Daniel grew up in Corvallis and with his day job being at a non-profit dedicated to ethical technology, he brings incredibly useful logistics and governance ideas to our place-based education endeavor!

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