Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information, contact
Metro Recycling Information
503-234-3000
sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
www.oregonmetro.gov/
Metro | People places. Open spaces
Who: Speakers: Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web, Inc. (owner/researcher)
When: Thursday, May 15, 2008
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: Metro Regional Center, 600 NE Grand Ave, Portland 97232
Topic: Renewing your soil's health. An incredible diversity of life in the soil makes healthy, productive plants possible. Dr. Ingham and her company helped pioneer and continue to inspire a movement of using aerated compost tea and the full food web in the soil to produce dramatically positive results. Learn how and where to test your soil and compost for biological activity and where to find biologically active compost and compost tea.
Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Come spend the weekend celebrating spring with expert naturalists. Courses offered include Birding Deer Creek Center, Birding by Ear, Botany for Beginners, Ferns in the Field and more! Stay at the beautiful Deer Creek Ranch in Selma OR, enjoy free evening presentations on owls and bird song.
Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Come spend the weekend celebrating spring with expert naturalists. Courses offered include Birding Deer Creek Center, Birding by Ear, Botany for Beginners, Ferns in the Field and more! Stay at the beautiful Deer Creek Ranch in Selma OR, enjoy free evening presentations on owls and bird song.
Enjoy the sun with the Hillsboro Development Commission and SOLV in a planting party this Saturday, May 17 from 9 am to 1 pm. Tenants and local volunteers will plant and landscape around a the Sierra West apartment complex in Hillsboro.
Ray Pratt, City of Portland
503-823-3780
rpratt@fire.ci.portland.or.us
This Saturday, May 17 from 9 am to 1 pm join the City of Portland and SOLV to clean up the Willamette River in Portland from the Fremont to Sellwood Bridges. We will be breaking the river up in sections and assigning each to an interested resident, business, or volunteer to manage and pick up trash. The garbage bags will be picked up by boaters and transferred to a barge with dumpsters that will be traveling up and down the river. Since this cleanup is taking place along the Willamette be cautious working along the banks and watch out for homeless camps and poison oak. Bring your OWN DRINKING WATER, snacks, litter grabber, work boots, camera and if in a boat, your own PFD.
Courtney Vengarick
503-636-4112 x 105
courtney.vengarick@berrybot.org
It is supposed to be gorgeous on Saturday. Why not be outside? Invasive species threaten to push out other plants and animals all across Oregon. Garlic Mustard is one of the many invasive species taking over Oregon's landscape and it is making an appearance at the Berry Botanic Garden in SW Portland. If uncontrolled it may overwhelm this lovely plant-filled oasis. Join volunteers this Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm at the Garden at 11505 SW Summerville Ave, 97219. For more information contact Courtney Vengarick at courtney.vengarick@berrybot.org or 503-636-4112 x105. Directions to the garden can be found at http://www.berrybot.org/administration/directions.html. With the forecast for warm weather this weekend, please bring your own water to this event, preferably in a re-usable bottle.
Want to take advantage of the sunny weather forecast this weekend? Concerned about the spread of invasive species in Oregon? Then come out to Metro’s Native Plant Center in Tualatin on Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm where volunteers will remove old fence line, invasive blackberry, mulch and weed around rare or threatened native plants and perform maintenance at the center. These native plants or their seeds will be used in restoration projects on Metro’s natural areas throughout the region. With the forecast for warm weather we are asking volunteers to bring their own water to the event. For more information visit: http://www.solv.org/programs/event_details.asp?eventID=13546 or contact Brett Lyon at SOLV at 503-844-9571 or brett@solv.org. To register contact Brett or visit: http://www.solv.org/programs/forms/form_dbr_registration.asp?EventID=13546&EventDt=5/17/2008&eventName=Invasives Removal at Metros Native Plant Center
see www.earthflow.com or email us at permaculture@earthflow.com
You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the third weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Cruz, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well.
$90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available
Help restore the Sunrise Wetland across from Clackamas High School in Clackamas as part of SOLV’s Down By The Riverside event on Saturday, May 17. The event starts at 9 am and will be over by 1 pm. Volunteers will be removing invasive, non-native plants and mulching. By volunteering you will help improve habitat for birds, small mammals, and fish in this important urban waterway.
Help restore the Beacon Hill Wetland and Johnson Creek Watershed in Beaverton as part of SOLV’s Down By The Riverside event on Saturday, May 17. Plantings start at 9 am and end by 1 pm. Volunteers will be removing invasive, non-native plants and mulching.
Help restore Hall Creek in Beaverton as part of SOLV’s Down By The Riverside event on Saturday, May 17. The event starts at 9 am and will be over by 1 pm. Volunteers will be removing invasive, non-native plants and mulching. By volunteering you will be helping improve habitat for birds, small mammals, and fish in this important urban stream.
On behalf of the National Forest Foundation and the Portland Water Bureau, I would like to invite you to Portland's historic Dodge Park on Saturday, May 17, from 9am until 1pm. Come help us treat trees, protect salmon habitat, explore this Portland park and learn about the city’s plans to help salmon thrive there!
For more information or to register: 503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org
A teacher of basketry for over 15 years, Kim Black will guide us through a modern exploration of a traditional Native American craft. Take home your own handmade pine needle bowl. Extra supplies and instruction materials available for purchase.
Tom Costello, Portland Audubon Society 503 292 6855
Portland Audubon's annual Native Plant sale is on Saturday May 17 and Sunday May 18. Over 100 species of Oregon wildflowers, shrubs, and trees will be available to enhance your yard. 10AM to 4PM at 5151 NW Cornell Road. Free speakers at 1 PM and 2 PM Saturday.
Join us at the Greener Homes and Gardens Expo on May 17/18 and become more self-sustained in your garden by attending free seminars about making your own soil amendments, caring for urban chickens, managing small–scale beekeeping, harvesting rainwater, incorporating pet-friendly gardening techniques, utilizing permaculture practices and more.
$3 suggested donation to benefit Habitat for Humanity ReStore
The ReDirect Guide is presenting our 6th annual home & garden show, the Greener Homes & Gardens Expo. This year's show will be more exciting and action-packed than ever before. Over 100 different exhibitors will be offering environmentally-friendly ideas and solutions for your home & garden, but that's just the beginning! This year there will be hands-on workshops and seminars for you to learn new things, a Meet the Candidates Environmental Forum, a Seed Swap and Start Market, an Environmental Film Festival in a virtual drive-in with alternative vehicles and electric cars, a 411 Eco-Info Booth for all home & garden project questions, a Creative & Custom Bike Competition, children's activities, live music, food, and more! Come on up, and have a full day of fun and exciting things to do! And the entire show is a benefit for the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, so you get to help families get into new houses while you're having fun, learning, dancing and eating. Does it get any better than that?
$3 suggested donation to benefit Portland Habitat for Humanity ReStore
Indoors, accessible, convenient to public transportation, bike parking available
Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Come spend the weekend celebrating spring with expert naturalists. Courses offered include Birding Deer Creek Center, Birding by Ear, Botany for Beginners, Ferns in the Field and more! Stay at the beautiful Deer Creek Ranch in Selma OR, enjoy free evening presentations on owls and bird song.
see www.earthflow.com or email us at permaculture@earthflow.com
You are invited to join L. Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design Works, and a host of other local and international leaders in the world-wide sustainability movement, and learn how to create the conditions for sustainability to happen. This permaculture design certificate course is offered the third weekends of the month, February - July 2008, in and around Santa Cruz, CA. Complete attendance required for certification, but you are welcome to register for 1 day or 1 module of the course as well.
$90/day, $175/weekend or $950 for entire course. Teacher discounts and work-trade plans available
Tom Costello, Portland Audubon Society 503 292 6855
Portland Audubon's annual Native Plant sale is on Saturday May 17 and Sunday May 18. Over 100 species of Oregon wildflowers, shrubs, and trees will be available to enhance your yard. 10AM to 4PM at 5151 NW Cornell Road. Free speakers at 1 PM and 2 PM Saturday.
Join us at the Greener Homes and Gardens Expo on May 17/18 and become more self-sustained in your garden by attending free seminars about making your own soil amendments, caring for urban chickens, managing small–scale beekeeping, harvesting rainwater, incorporating pet-friendly gardening techniques, utilizing permaculture practices and more.
$3 suggested donation to benefit Habitat for Humanity ReStore
The ReDirect Guide is presenting our 6th annual home & garden show, the Greener Homes & Gardens Expo. This year's show will be more exciting and action-packed than ever before. Over 100 different exhibitors will be offering environmentally-friendly ideas and solutions for your home & garden, but that's just the beginning! This year there will be hands-on workshops and seminars for you to learn new things, a Meet the Candidates Environmental Forum, a Seed Swap and Start Market, an Environmental Film Festival in a virtual drive-in with alternative vehicles and electric cars, a 411 Eco-Info Booth for all home & garden project questions, a Creative & Custom Bike Competition, children's activities, live music, food, and more! Come on up, and have a full day of fun and exciting things to do! And the entire show is a benefit for the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, so you get to help families get into new houses while you're having fun, learning, dancing and eating. Does it get any better than that?
$3 suggested donation to benefit Portland Habitat for Humanity ReStore
Indoors, accessible, convenient to public transportation, bike parking available
For more information or to register: 503-636-4112 x102 or register@berrybot.org
Ethnobotany is the study of how humans use plants. In this entertaining workshop naturalist Deb Scrivens will share her knowledge of plants traditionally used for food, medicine, baskets and many other uses.
$15; $10 Children 12 and under. Space is limited; registration required.
Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Refresh and hone your skills in keying and field recognition
of grasses found in southwestern Oregon.
Learn to recognize introduced and native local
grasses by sight or by checking a few distinctive
Join us Monday May 19 for one of Portland's favorite topics - humanure - from a fresh perspective! Laura Dvorak will share her presentation entitled R.E.S.O.U.R.C.E., (Reclaiming Everyone's Soil: Opportunity to Understand Relational Cycles of Ecology). It represents an ethnographic inquiry of composting toilets in Portland (as related to watershed restoration/education and cultural perceptions), and a brief overview of appropriate technologies and innovations in other countries. It is an exploration of the current human condition- the environmental crisis and spiritual catharsis- framed around the misunderstood and wasted resource of human excreta.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Refresh and hone your skills in keying and field recognition
of grasses found in southwestern Oregon.
Learn to recognize introduced and native local
grasses by sight or by checking a few distinctive
Find out about a new urban Ecovillage/Cohousing condominium forming in NE Portland. Come meet current members and the developer, learn about our plans for intentional, multigenerational, multicultural, sustainable community, and how you can become a part of it.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Learn basic bird identification from experienced
guides in birding areas well
known for exceptional land and
sea bird viewing opportunities,
including Point St. George, Lakes
Earl and Tolowa, Crescent City
Come by and help us make this rainy garden a reality! We will be addressing stormwater issues that are a constant challenge to Portland Audubon Society’s 150 acre Wildlife Sanctuary. Learn about rainwater catchment as we install rain barrels to harvest and store water to use in our native plant nursery. We will direct runoff from a few of our downspouts away from the foundations of the building into the landscaped area in front of our breezeway. Water-loving flowering shrubs will be planted to enhance habitat for pollinators, migratory birds, and other wildlife. River rock will be added to prevent erosion, create micro-habitat for insects, and add a little manicured beauty to the landscape. Benches under the breezeway, many built from salvaged tree-fall, provide a nice gathering space where our two legged, four legged, and winged visitors can all come together.
LGL is a 13 acre facility, with approximately 3 to 4 acres in cultivation. Students from Portland Public Schools and Portland State University have been participating in the making of this garden, and a lot of planning goes into the overall site design. How can you be resourceful, follow the seasons, and close all the loops for a successful garden design? Come learn how to perform a site analysis through permaculture methods, and techniques, such as zone and sector analysis. Afterwards, we will take a tour of the grounds, identifying plants, learning from mistakes, and “best practices.”
Urban farming and garden-based education are alive and well in SE Portland! This two-part bike tour will explore both school gardens and urban educational farms. Witness for yourself the amazing diversity of these organically-inclined models of sustainable and educational food production, and maybe get a few ideas for your own home or school garden, too!
From the beginning of time, sacred movement, song and story have brought people together - at times of seasonal ceremony and celebration, as part of everyday life and life passages, in daily renewal and meditation, etc... The Dances of Universal Peace are part of this timeless tradition of Sacred Dance.
Portland is filled with amazing healing plants! Get to know your local medicinals on a leisurely neighborhood stroll with community herbalist Missy Rohs of the Arctos School. We’ll discuss how to use and prepare garden herbs such as calendula and rosemary, native plants like Oregon grape and Douglas fir, and weedy friends from dandelion to cleavers. All ages and walking speeds welcome!
Living healthy soil is a key for producing healthy plants and nutritious food. Come learn how to build abudant soil through the process of sheet mulching.
We are excited to be transforming our grassy parking strip to a pedestrian food forest corridor this week. This design charette will lay the groundwork and planning for our endeavor. Come join us and learn how to plan for a permaculture food forest by making connections with resources and needs on site.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Learn basic bird identification from experienced
guides in birding areas well
known for exceptional land and
sea bird viewing opportunities,
including Point St. George, Lakes
Earl and Tolowa, Crescent City
Examine the role of small livestock in integrated design systems at Tryon Life Community Farm. TLC Farm has goats and chickens and is actively transforming their care and housing to be more in line with permaculture principles. The workshop will discuss some basics of goat and chicken care, examine how animals can be helpful parts of a farm ecosystem, and touch on the many ethical considerations in animal husbandry.
The world is constantly shaped by patterns of disturbance across many scales. This talk and workshop may shed some light on how we might respond to and generate change in personal, political, economic, and ecological system. We will look at behavior, technology, guiding succession, making responsive decisions, and combatting the “Shock Doctrine.”
In this class, we’ll take a look at the progression of the solar power movement in our area, and talk about ways in which you can be involved. Topics will include renewable energy education, both for students and educators, finding a job in the solar industry, and how you can become an independent power producer. We’ll also talk about what some other communities are doing with solar, and think of creative ways to advance what we’re doing here.
The bees are masters of pollination; we can thank them for much of the fruit we enjoy. Come learn the basics of beekeeping and how to develop a relationship with a hive.
Led by: Jacqueline Freeman, Friendly Haven Farm, thefreemans@sisna.com
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Learn basic bird identification from experienced
guides in birding areas well
known for exceptional land and
sea bird viewing opportunities,
including Point St. George, Lakes
Earl and Tolowa, Crescent City
Soil is alive, and creating the right conditions for the underground community to flourish helps new plants thrive. Come learn the basic techniques of layering for weed control, grass removal, gradual breakdown of nutrients, and the additions required for a healthy, diverse soil crumble. Expect to learn how to maintain a newly sheeted area, how long it will last, and how to design by ‘patch-working.’ Learn how tilling with machinery is a viscous cycle – worms are our tilling friends! All materials provided.
LGL has started planting a food forest as a nature inspired, peripheral garden-walk around the grounds. Come learn how to build a soil guild around fruiting trees and shrubs with sheet composting techniques, and successive layering of plants that provide a host of complementary, and mutually beneficial effects, known as a “plant community,” or guild. All materials provided.
In this workshop, we will begin with the premise that our own body is our most direct link to the Earth. In order to connect our sense of ethics and Earth activism with our ritual and artistic sensibilities, we will explore various improvisational and body-based art games derived from such diverse techniques as yoga, contact improvisation, action theater, butoh and many others. Through these physical practices, we initiate the process of learning principles of permaculture, sustainability and cooperation directly through the body, and cultivate our ability to move from outrage and overwhelm to creative empowerment and action. This work is intended to restore the arts to their rightful place at the center of a healthy and sustainable community. No experience necessary–just bring a spirit of playfulness.
Join local installers at a recent grid-tied photovolatic installation to talk about system design, component selection, and installation basics. We’ll check out the job from the solar modules all the way back to the grid. We will also cover off-grid design for a small cabin-style system. Bring something to sit on!
“Natural play spaces support healthy child development and connect children with the wonderment of the natural world. This workshop will explore ways to transform yards and tired playgrounds into unique Natural Play-scapes using local materials and community energy.”
Come join us for this workshop on ways that you can design your gardens to conserve water using materials found onsite and nearby. This is the first workshop in a series of workshops on how to create a food forest corridor near Mount Tabor Park.
