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Worthy Garden Club buys Wintercreek Nursery to play a major role in restoration and rewilding efforts

Operation Appleseed, an environmental initiative by Worthy Garden Club in partnership with Worthy Brewing, has officially surpassed the half-million mark in their pledge to plant over one million native trees in Oregon, targeting wildfire burn zones and abandoned clear cuts. "During a code red climate emergency, this is a big win for our forests," said Roger Worthington, President of the Worthy Garden Club (WGC). "Despite the triple whammy of the pandemic, the horrific wildfires and the drought, all of which set us back, this year we were able to keep focus, muscle up and triple...

Add communal farming to the brewery's list of cool side projects Visitors to Worthy Brewing can't help but notice the hopyard is looking a bit barren. It's not that the land proved infertile. Quite the contrary; it's being repurposed into a new organic farm, the latest venture for the Worthy Garden Club, the brewery's nonprofit highlighting sustainable practices. The new farm "came on suddenly," says Lisa Sanco, Worthy Garden Club's sustainability educator, "as many of (founder Roger Worthington)'s ideas do." Worthington is also the guy who deemed the brewery ought to have its own astrono...