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Summer/Fall 2010 Southeast Portland schedule and outreach

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:26:23 +0000

Mission: Food Not Lawns works toward a ecologically, socially, and perpetually thriving human habitats, using theories and techniques derived from permaculture, kinship gardening, ecological design, and biodynamics.

# To assist in creating ecologically sustainable community food cycles.
# To increase access to organic food and permaculture education to low-income and rural communities.
#To increase regional biodiversity

Contact and Outreach information:
Portland Food not Lawns Blog: www.pdxfoodnotlawns.wordpress.com
SE Portland Food not Lawns Blog: www.sepdxfoodnotlawns.wordpress.com

Link to join SE Food not Lawns mailing list:

https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/se-portland-foodnotlawns

SE Food not Lawns general email contact:
sefoodnotlawns@gmail.com

Spring 2010 work party schedule(check blog for updates and new gardens):

SE 15th and Hawthorne, strip on 15th corner of Hawthorne, has compost bin
(need some people to maintain and take on)

Secret garden near SE 35th and Hawthorne
(RSVP: skyeblue669@hotmail.com)

SE 24th and Ankeny
work parties on Every Sunday at 10am.

Outer SE near Foster and 72nd, few different spots started would like to setup group work days. contact: sefoodnotlawns@gmail.com

Spring 2010 SE Food Not Lawns Outreach Information

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:47:51 +0000

Contact and Outreach information:
Portland Food not Lawns Blog: www.pdxfoodnotlawns.wordpress.com
SE Portland Food not Lawns Blog: www.sepdxfoodnotlawns.wordpress.com

Link to join SE Food not Lawns mailing list:

https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/se-portland-foodnotlawns

SE Food not Lawns general email contact:
sefoodnotlawns@gmail.com

Spring 2010 work party schedule(check blog for updates and new gardens):

SE 15th and Hawthorne, strip on 15th corner of Hawthorne, has compost bin
(need some people to maintain and take on)

Secret garden near SE 35th and Hawthorne
(RSVP: skyeblue669@hotmail.com)

SE 24th and Ankeny
work parties on Every Sunday at 10am.

Outer SE near Foster and 72nd, few different spots started would like to setup group work days. contact: sefoodnotlawns@gmail.com

Spring is here

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:28:03 +0000

Spring is here!

We are beginning work on the 35th and Hawthorne “Secret Garden”. Work parties are scheduled for every Sunday. Meet in front of Noah’s Bagel’s at S.E. 35th and Hawthorne at 11 am. We will walk to the garden promptly at 11:15.

This week we need lots of helping hands! The garden is full of weeds. All of the soil needs to be turned, the weeds removed, and cardboard put down as a weed blocker. If there is time, we can begin building the peas trellis.

What to bring? Your smiling faces! This is a great time to get involved and learn about springtime garden planning.

Access to the garden in only permitted during work party times, unless you have received permission from myself or Brian saying otherwise.
I can be contacted for suggestions or concerns at 503.358.9456.

Thanks, I hope to see you soon! – Skye Blue

Some pics of SE 24/Ankeny over summer

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:00:32 +0000

SE Portland Food not Lawns Outreach and Work Parties Summer 09

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:31:31 +0000

Mission: Food Not Lawns works toward a ecologically, socially, and perpetually thriving human habitats, using theories and techniques derived from permaculture, kinship gardening, ecological design, and biodynamics.

Portland Food not Lawns Blog: www.pdxfoodnotlawns.wordpress.com
SE Portland Food not Lawns Blog: www.sepdxfoodnotlawns.wordpress.com
SE Food not Lawns mailing list:
se-portland-foodnotlawns@lists.riseup.net
SE Food not Lawns email contact:
sefoodnotlawns@gmail.com

Fall work party schedule(check blog for updates and new sites:
SE 15th and Hawthorne, next to street, has compost bin(honeycombcell@riseup.net)
2nd & 3rd Thurs. 6pm in Outer SE different locations(sefoodnotlawns@gmail.com or check blog)
Sundays at Noon around SE 35th and hawthorne(RSVP: skyeblue669@hotmail.com)
2nd and 4th Sat. Noon at SE 24th and Ankeny

Busy Summer

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:11:38 +0000

So it’s been three months since I last updated the blog. Guess it’s hard to spend time blogging when there’s so much to do.

Also if you didn’t know it was a hot summer.

Current status of spaces we have been involved with are:

SE 35 and Hawthorne lot is doing great with lots of produce including corn, onions, garlic, basil, loveage, zucchini, and more. The fruit trees and grapes we planted are all doing well getting established. Work days are currently on Weds, but best to contact Skye Blue on that.

Space produced A LOT of Peas in the Spring.

Here’s a neat pararama of the space taken in July

Recap on past two weeks

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:55:05 +0000

We have gotten SE 35th and Hawthorne space to a pretty good place and keeping up with it. Regular work party 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 12(noon).

SE 24 and Ankeny is now mostly cleared out thanks to a get turn out for Max Rameau visit to work party. Max shared the community work he is doing in Miami, Fl with his group Take Back the Land(www.takebackthelabd.org). Truly inspiring forward visioning and action on the relationship between humans and land.

SE 24 and Ankeny: Regular work party 2nd and 4th Saturdays at 12(noon).

New picture of both site to come soon.

We have been getting a flood of people wanting to get involved and people in communities that have land and know of vacant land that could be used for creating gardens and healthy gathering spaces.

So we are going to start a project similar to yardshare or collaborate with them on it. Our current issue is yardshare does not differentiate between public and private spaces(ie. backyard gardens). Also little documentation of current status.

We would like a tool for use to basically approve a new site with a few details met for space and connection to people maintaining space.
Through this process we hope to be able to add more spaces more rapidly.

We are also going to work on volunteer intake so:
Asking some stuff like this

area of city:
best hours:
knowledge of gardening?

March Updates

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:18:29 +0000

Well we got the SE Portland Food Not Lawns Tool Shed half built, and some tools currently in it at the SE 35th and Hawthorne location. We hope to finish it in the next week or so. Figure out lending processes and general maintenance. Then hope to start another shed further out in SE in Mt. Scott neighborhood.

We also got the yucky Laurel tree removed and planted an Italian Prune tree.

Here’s some pics of the peas and garlic.

SE 35th and Hawthorne

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:51:44 +0000

We took over this space at tail end of fall 08. We started by pulling weeds, and the few greens we did get in the ground died in the big snow.

Basically we decided to spend most of the winter getting the space ready for Spring. So we planted two 15″ rows of garlic, an Asian plum, an Italian prune trees, echinacea, motherswort, sunchokes, and a bunch of random flower bulbs in spots around the edge.

Here’s what the space looked like first time we saw it.

Johnny Appleseed Ride Reportback

sepdxfoodnotlawns — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:20:36 +0000

Sunday about dozen or so of us met up in NE Portland for a Johnny Appleseed ride to Mini Bike Winter Olympics in SE Portland.

We planned in a few random spots but mainly in NE vacant lot on Alberta and vacant lot at SE 24/Ankeny.

Pictures to come.