2021 Mainstem Crop & Conservation Tour

1106 DELL AVE,WALLA WALLA WA 99362

30 July, 2021

Description

An industry tour of barley fields and conservation projects at harvesttime, including a dinner and campout in the Touchet River Canyon. Calling all brewers, distillers, and front-of-house folks in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska! Join the Mainstem team for our first-ever Crop & Conservation Tour, taking place July 30-31 in the Walla Walla Valley and foothills of the Blue Mountains. Complete with camping, dinner, breakfast, and river time. OUR GOALS: Bring together the Mainstem team, our farmers who aren't too busy harvesting, and some of our region's brewers/distillers/allies for a really good time. All in a place we cherish as a company and can’t wait to share.Share perspective on how ingredients like malt can be used as way to make social and environmental progress in agriculture and the beverage industry.Tour the dryland malting grain fields in the Walla Walla area, see successful conservation projects and Salmon-Safe practices, and get a vision for craft malt as an ongoing catalyst for conservation work.Experience one of the most impressive examples of collaborative river restoration in the Pacific Northwest, in progress on the North Fork Touchet River, and hear from the community of stakeholders who helped make it happen.HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Get vaccinated.Register up to 4 team members and plan to carpool.Get yourself and teammates to Walla Walla on Friday 7/30 by noon. Have a nice lunch in Walla Walla on your own.Meet at 1pm at our office on 1106 Dell Ave, Walla Walla, WA and get ready to caravan. Consolidate vehicles where possible.From 1-5pm, tour crops and conservation projects in the Walla Walla area.Arrive at camp at 5pm, set up your tents, and get ready for dinner.Have a great evening, make great connections, and get up in time for breakfast.After breakfast, tour an epic river restoration project with local stakeholders.Enjoy some river time before continuing on your own adventure or heading back home.WHAT TO BRING: Bring all of the things you'd need and appreciate while car camping, water, snacks, and beverages to share. Additional details to follow. WHAT WE'LL PROVIDE AT CAMP: Dinner on Friday evening with some local beers to share, a place for you to set up a tent, a river to do some swimming/fishing/relaxing, and breakfast on Saturday morning. ABOUT US: Mainstem was founded with a vision to use malt as a collaborative tool to support conservation projects on family farms, and the vision blossomed into something much bigger. If consumers can pay a premium for products, those products can be made with premium ingredients, and those premium ingredients allow for some really neat work to be done throughout the supply chain. From river restoration to DEI to carbon sequestration to relocalization of grain economies, there's really no limit to what's possible when we're working together.