The goal of these events is to start an autonomous Portland chapter of Food not Lawns, for the purpose of starting and supporting more front-yard gardens and other ecological projects around the city.
SATURDAY
10 am,
Portland Farmer's Market
Opening Celebration
Getting Free Plants: Guerrilla Plant Propagation and other ways to revegetate your neighborhood.
7 pm, St. John's Books
Food Not Lawns; Grassroots Gardening Toward a Proactive Ecology
In this colorful, dynamic, and interactive slideshow Heather will demonstrate a wide variety of projects and share over a decade of hands-on experience in ecological gardening, permaculture design, and community organizing. Free/donations accepted.
SUNDAY
Noon, Proper Eats
Community Seed Swap
Heather will be there with her mobile seed library.
2 pm, St. John's Books
Urban Paradise Gardening:
How to Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Food Forest.
Learn the ways and means of turning any urban yard into a food producing paradise, including:
Urban land access, microclimates, and
site assessment
Maximizing small spaces
Soil and compost building
Water wise gardening
Plant stacking
Seed saving
Finding free resources
Distributing the surplus
Intensive workshop, $25.
MONDAY
7pm PSU, Food for Thought Cafe
Building Sustainable Community through Food Not Lawns
Slides, Discussion, and Interactive Games.
While the Saturday slideshow will focus on project examples and general visions of an edible urban paradise, this presentation will emphasize the logistics of organizing events, cultivating functional working groups, and creating and directing the flow of surplus plants, seeds, and other resources. We will focus on whole system design and project planning, but will not cover gardening technique in any detail. If you need a gardening workshop, please attend the one at St. John's Books on Sunday.
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