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Along with our community partners, OIC promotes the area’s unique natural and cultural assets: forests, farms, and waterways for hiking, paddling, wildlife watching, and nature education. There are remarkable pockets of innovation, such as the Seeds of Solidarity Farm, which was initiated over 12 years ago and now provides most of the local restaurants with organic greens and garlic. Seeds of Solidarity also created the Sol Garden Project, teaching children in local schools how to do community and home gardening, as well as the annual Garlic and Arts Festival, celebrating local arts and agriculture in the context of a sustainable festival generating good food, lots of music and almost no trash. This business is and always has been run entirely off the electric grid and uses biodiesel to fuel their trucks and cars.