Mission

The mission of The Chimacum Center is to cultivate relationships, sow sustainability and grow more vibrant and equitable rural community through land-based interconnection, arts, advocacy and education.

We work in partnership and collaboration with land and farming partners and with grassroots and organizational allies around the region to nurture creative, collaborative and restorative rural projects in the arts, community-building, healing, food justice and land access.

BACKGROUND

16 years ago, Finnriver Farm was started in the Chimacum Valley, traditional lands of the S’Klallam and Aqokúlo (Chemakum) poeples.  The farm’s intention was to convert historic dairy land into a diversified small-scale model of organic agriculture, with the aspiration of caring for land and growing community. The vision was to grow nourishing food for people and to kindle a reconnection between people and the earth that sustains us. 

After five years of growing organic vegetables, produce and grains, the farm was expanded in 2009 to include hard cider fermentation and this launched Finnriver Cidery, which relocated to the historic 50 acre Bishop/Brown dairy farm at the Chimacum corner in 2015. The Cidery has remained committed to the core founding mission and has continued to pursue a people-planet-purpose farm model— growing a Certified Organic Orchard, with B Corp and Salmon Safe certifications, and working to embody and role model viable practices and solutions in land and watershed conservation, alternative energy, local living economies; and moving forward with enacting our commitments to racial justice and social equity.

In the Fall of 2020, amidst the disruption of the pandemic and inspired by the necessity and possibilities of the Social Justice and Climate Action movements, Finnriver Farm & Cidery established The Chimacum Center, a non-profit project fiscally sponsored through the 501(c)(3) Social Good Fund.  

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