Tilth Marks Ten Year.s What do you get when you combine a barter fair and agricultural exhibition, a bioregional organizing extravaganza, a healthy list of workshops, lots of sunshine, and some 300 beaming Earth lovers in a celebration of the tenyear anniversary of Tilth, Northwest's sustainable agriculture association? The Tilth Jamboree! (See also "From the Ground Up," RAIN IX:6/X:l, page 51.) The Jamboree was held in a field 15 miles east of Snoqualmie Pass in central Washington, September 29 to October 1. Ambitious volunteers erected a stage, workshop shelters, yurts, and a children's play area. Participants from B.C. to California formed tWo long rows of wares and produce displays. Barter fair wizard and veteran Tilth member Michael - "Skeeter" Pilarski graciously steered all these festive activities and ' bankrolled the whole operation. The 20 or so networking groups ranged from sustainable forestry to beekeeping to alternative economic systems, and the workshops ran the gamt,it from super-efficient wood burning to Rainiac Jeff Stra~g's "Unusual Edibles: Lessons from the Mien people of Laos." As the Jamboree wound down Sunday evening, an unexpected belly dancing trio entertained a yurt-full of folks. The finale came when, at the dancers' requests for volunteers, three anonymous males rolled up their shirts, swung their hips, waved their arms, and drew whoops and calls unequalled in belly dancing history. Watch out for Tilth's 20th anniversary! -Kris Nelson Bioregional Initiatives · ·Sparked North American Bioregional Con- · gress coordinator David Haenke, an Ozarks native (see "Voices of Reinha·- bitation: The Ozarks," RAIN, X:5, p. 28), was invited as a special guest to the Tilth Jamboree. David outlined 'the development of the planet-wide Green movement and its connections to the bioregional movement (see "Weaving Green Threads," RAIN, X:5, p. 12). He presented the following steps that the Ozark Area Community Congress took in forming their biore- , gional representative body:·recognize January/Febr:uary 1985 RAIN Page 31 On, a. rtUVI d.tttJ tf ,,.,,.tW, dl.tu"'6 c/.ouJj Slf'llrtd.s ID NVul tJte .Atcrtt~ .Aor/Jur~St. On, lite ea.st,, tlie ea~uu:U ~ pt'Otuh iJ from, 1:1u tJUrsw nature's borders and determine where the constituency lies; invite representatives of sympathetic groups, incluqing indigenous people to the Congress; meet in interest group committees where goals and resolutions are formulated; and by meeting in a SoutlawtuJ thl, SisJu:.y_ou$ , aiullrinit9clllps pali.stuk. t/ie, .Ataritim,e,Aortlawest "!Jainst IM "4rr, b1YW11 hill'> anJ ~~ Of Calq;rnic,_ .Nortlaward, ~ 111Aril;iJne, c~ persists, ~r~ CMJeS, turfU!rl ba.cJc "9 lflOUnt4itaA -thdt rise from,~ .Jwf. plenary where the body hears and · eventually ratifies goals and resolutions that form a bioregional platform. The interest group committees and their resolutions parallel state and national government committees and can be used in co~municating with_
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