OPDX Food and Garden Team

04/30/2012

Mark Your Calendars!!!

04/26/2012

We will be having two garden work parties coming up on back to back days! Friday, April 27 from 11 AM until 4 PM or later, we will be digging beds and planting lettuce and greens at two of our garden sites in the Mississippi neighborhood. Saturday, from noon until 5 PM or later, we will be clearing and digging beds at The Rainbow Ranch, one of our garden sites in the NE. Email [email protected] for addresses.

04/20/2012

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This is what democracy tastes like!

04/16/2012

04/12/2012

Yay, we did it! We really did have it our way! Thanks to everyone who made the McSoup Kitchen possible on F29. This is just the beginning!

The fast food king joins Pepsi, Kraft, and Coca-Cola in leaving the corporate-backed group.

04/05/2012

Hi all!
Our next garden party is going to be this Saturday, April 7 at 12:30 PM. For the first few hours, we'll be hauling compost to the garden sites that we didn't get to last week, most of which are in North Portland. Then, depending on the weather, we will either do some planting (if it's not raining or wet) or we will be heading to a site where some of our equipment is still being stored (not the place
where our food and propane burners are being stored) to sort through it and haul away whatever we still want. If we have enough people attending and it's not wet, some of us will haul compost while others will plant vegetables at one of our other gardens. We were originally going to dig the beds at St. Francis, then realized that it's Easter weekend and we can't be doing any projects there until after Sunday.

If you'd like the address of where we'll be meeting on Saturday,
email, call, or message me. [email protected]

I'm looking forward to hanging out with all of you in the garden!

Love and Soilidarity,

Adam

03/28/2012

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03/27/2012

This Friday, March 30th, I am going to have all-day access to a rental pick-up truck. I'm using the truck until 3 PM to pick up supplies for an indoor grey-water system/art installation that I and some friends are building at PSU, and after that I'll be able to use it to drop off compost at any of our garden sites. This will likely be the day that I visit the three gardens we haven't assessed yet, including the Shire, and I'll have compost with me when I visit to drop off at each site. If anyone wants to be a part of this endeavor, there's going to
be a lot of driving around and some labor shoveling the compost into and out of the truck, and the whole adventure may take several hours, but it will be a lot of fun, and the perfect opportunity to take a tour of many of our wonderful Occupy Portland Gardens! Adam

03/26/2012

03/26/2012

Hi everyone! Sorry for the last minute notice, but I think most of
you are already aware that we are holding a joint garden party/
workshop with Our School at Elmira's house Monday, May 26 from Noon to
3 PM. This workshop will likely be on double-digging, and there may
be some planting involved. There may also be additional workshops
(not by me) on bike repair and beer and wine making, but I haven't
confirmed this. Bring some food to share if you can. If you need the
address, email me. Hope to see you there!

Hugs,

Adam

03/23/2012

Hello Everyone,

Starting next week, we (food team) will be sharing a storage space with medical team. They have a huge space that they aren't fully using. Adam and I will be there at 9am this Saturday to get our stuff moved a re-organized. If any of you still have any equipment from camp, now would be a great time to get it moved. We also still have things to move from PALS. We would LOVE some help!! If you are available, please let us know. That's this Sat. 3/24, 9AM (before the garden work party) at Portland Storage 109 SE Alder.

Also the gardening proposal I wrote for St Francis has been accepted so we can get those raised beds whipped into shape soon. We are going to be planting potatoes and garlic there, with a few flowers around the edges. We should also plant a few herbs for them to use in the kitchen.

We have more gardens!!! Mario's mother has offered her entire back yard, although it sounds like it needs a lot of work. I think he said she is located on 82nd and Davis. This site might be one where we put in temporary raised beds for this season and then mulch properly in fall so we have lovely, lush soil next spring.
A women who heard Adam's interview on KBOO called in during the show and is donating us her community garden plot in the Sewallcrest Community Garden located at SE 31st Ave & Market St.

Just a few more things.... I have a friend who has offered to do tiller work for us. YAY!!!
Portland Nursery is donating a bunch of seeds that I will pick up tomorrow AND Joe (KBOO Joe) works at the Division store and is going to save all the ripped and unsell-able bags of soil amendments and organic fertilizers. He is also going to set aside the vegetable starts that aren't "retail" worthy anymore (they are growing crooked, or not enough starts in a tray) for us.
I also received a quart jar of "Lush Roots"... a product made by my good friends who run Dragonfly Earth Medicine. It is a tea concentrate to increase root development and plant yields, great stuff!! Check out their web site: http://www.dragonflyearthmedicine.com/

If you have any old flower seeds laying around, please bring them to the work parties or to St Francis. We are starting to collect resources to make seed bombs for actions around town. Kelly brought it up at the Spokes Council last night and there was an incredible positive response. We even collected email addresses for about 20 folks who are interested in getting involved. Will keep you posted!!