Kitsap Community & Agricultural Alliance

KCAA hosts educational workshops, meetings, and special events throughout the year to improve the lot of agriculture in Kitsap County. We have proudly partnered with other like-minded nonprofits in our area, local government, as well as individual farmers and farm groups, to ensure that the future of agriculture in Kitsap is strong.

As an all-volunteer organization, we depend on the community for almost all of our support. Please consider becoming a KCAA donor, sponsor, or volunteer in the coming year.

The unforeseeable events of 2020 and the many restrictions that the pandemic brought created challenges for agriculture throughout the county. It also impacted the operations of the Kitsap Community and Agriculture Alliance (KCAA) deeply. It challenged our Farmer’s Market organization (KFMA), derailed our annual meeting in March and our Kitsap Grown Harvest Dinner celebration of local farming in September. In addition, it affected other activities that KCAA helps support; the Farm Funk Musical Festival, the junior livestock auction, our offerings of educational activities and workshops, networking, and more.

Dealing with the pandemic has also shown us the need for greater resiliency in our local food economy and the critical nature and strength of our interdependence. It has tightened our focus on building our local food system, and increased our resolve to continue developing more ways to leverage our 501c3 status to amplify the support we show our agricultural community. As we emerge from the pandemic, the KCAA will look to build our local food system through more educational scholarships and offerings, continued support of our local farmers markets, advocating for local agriculture with the county and state, collaboration with WSU Extension and Olympic College, and building the internal structure of our organization.