Welcome to Farrington Foundation
We strive to create and preserve open spaces while opening minds of all ages to unlimited opportunities in the great American Outdoors, to promote conservation and conservation easements and to foster access, awareness, ethics, safety, training, and outdoor values.
Places That Matter
Farrington Foundation is working with Youth Media Institute to create a multi-cultural, multi-generational, multi-media short video documentary telling the story of Pioneer Park in Mercer Island, WA. This project will highlight conservation efforts on Mercer Island and how its citizens have preserved Pioneer Park as native habitat. Farrington Foundation believes that using youth to tell this story of conservation develops leadership and environmental ethics among teens and young adults.
Oral Histories
To Save a Mountain
The Story of Turtleback Mountain
In 2005, San Juan Preservation Trust and San Juan County Land Bank, with the support of the community, came together to purchase and place conservation easements on Turtleback Mountain on Orcas Island in San Juan County. This is the history of those organizations and how they collaborated to save this iconic piece of land in the islands. Listen to Promo
From Desire to Change to Now
People for Puget Sound
In 1991, Kathy Fletcher started People for Puget Sound to protect and restore the Puget Sound’s water and land resources through education and direct action. This oral history is discusses Kathy’s inspiration for creating this organization as well as many of their successes.