Harvest Party!
This year’s third annual Harvest Party in Jackson, CA was a great success! A collaborative effort between Mother Lode Land Trust, Amador Trails Stewardship, and Zola Exchange, the harvest party is our annual thank you to the community for supporting our conservation efforts and an opportunity to showcase our historic C&C Ranch in Amador County.
Ellie, Amanda, and Bob Dean (MLLT board member) spend time with Smokey Bear.
We were blessed with beautiful sunny weather. Our loyal supporters as well as new friends enjoyed browsing items from local makers and learning about our nonprofit partners. The kids were busy trick-or-treating with the vendors, jumping in the bounce-house, picking out pumpkins, and exploring the community farm. There was plenty of great food and drink from local vendors, and we all enjoyed hanging out with Smokey Bear!
Our new path funded by the Land Trust Alliance Western Innovation Grant improves the accessibility of the community garden.
Bradley Booker and his team worked tirelessly to get the space ready with improvements made possible by our funding partners. We are so thankful the Land Trust Alliance awarded Mother Lode Land Trust a Western Innovation Grant this year to support our efforts to improve the accessibility with a packed gravel trail and two new Grit off-road wheelchairs. The chairs are now available for use by the public to use on less accessible trails. Please contact us if you would like to borrow one of these chairs to explore the outdoors.
Amada Brashear, MLLT’s stewardship director, tries out the Grit freedom chair now available for
public use.
A special thanks goes to Curtis Carl and friends who generously donated their time and talent to provided festive music for the event. Each year’s Harvest Party has been bigger and better than the last. Be sure to join us next year on the third Saturday of October.
Ellie Routt, MLLT’s executive director, getting ready to sell tasty beverages to festival goers.