Have you heard of Independence Gardens? If not, you should check them out! The owners are Lents residents and have lots of knowledge to share about gardens, food preservation, urban animal-raising, etc and will share with patience, skill and a smile :) Check out their planting recommendations below for your September garden! Below find links to their website, facebook and other information. Planting Recommendations Plant from seed: COVER CROPS Arugula (*) Beets * Cabbage * Carrots * Cilantro Lettuces (*) Mustard Onions * Peas (snow) * Radishes Spinach * * Choose overwintering varieties (*) Protect for harvest through winter OR choose overwintering varieties To find out more about Independence Gardens: Website: www.IndependenceGardensPDX.com Blog: www.IndependenceGardensPDX.com/blog Find Independence Gardens on Facebook HERE! Twitter: @indegardenspdx Happy Gardening! Add Comment Seed Saving Basics Workshop! 09/11/2011
East County FooDiversity Sept Workshop, Seed Saving Basics, presented by Marc Boucher-Colbert. Date Monday, September 26th, 2011 Time 6:00-8:00pm Location Glenfair Church, 50 NE 143rd Ave. Portland, OR, enter through basement doorway which is accessible by both stairs and a ramp. Snacks If you'd like, please bring a small snack item to share. Youth and children welcome! No child care provided but plenty of toys and puzzles to entertain little ones. Agenda 6:00-6:30 Introductions and Networking This is a chance to share what you're involved in, what you're working on, resources you have or need, ideas, and more. 6:30-8:00 Seed Saving Basics workshop led by Marc Boucher-Colbert Bring all your seedy questions to this workshop! Marc Boucher-Colbert - has been farming in the Portland area since 1993. A founding member of one of the earliest and most successful year-round CSAs in Portland, Urban Bounty, Marc was instrumental in forming the then-future Zenger Farm at the same site Urban Bounty farmed. He continues to share his passion for urban agriculture in many ways - as a Garden Specialist teacher at Franciscan Montessori Earth School in the Centennial Neighborhood of East Portland, as a rooftop gardener for such establishments as Noble Rot, through consulting with his business, Urban Agriculture Solutions, and with the many workshops on urban agriculture he gives around Portland. Become a Lents Neighborhood Tree Steward 09/11/2011
Training coming soon! Join the next class of neighborhood tree stewards - taught by a great group of people! There are currently 2 tree stewards in Lents on the Green Lents Tree Team and you could be the next. Sign up here: REGISTER Class dates & times: Tuesday, September 27th (6:30-8:30 p.m.) Tuesday, October 4th (6:30-8:30 p.m.) Saturday, October 8th (9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.) Saturday, October 15th (9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.) Saturday, October 22nd (9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.) Tuesday, October 25th (6:30-8:30 p.m.) Saturday, October 29th (8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.) Location: Classes will meet at multipule locations throughout the city in order to represent different areas of Portland's urban forest. Cost: The registration fee of $45 includes over 25 hours of training, a Neighborhood Tree Steward sweatshirt, and handbook. Discounts: 25% off each registration fee if two or more people from one neighborhood register together. To receive the discount, register with Autumn Montegna by phone or email. Scholarships: Scholarships are available. To request a scholarship please contact Autumn Montegna to obtain the appropriate form. Registration: To register for the training, visit www.portlandonline.com/parks/ or call customer service at 503-823-2525 and ask to sign up for course number 356806. Discount & Scholarship Registration: Contact Autumn Montegna, Urban Forest Outreach Coordinator at 503-701-7622 or autumn.montegna@portlandoregon.gov Johnson Creek Cleanup - August 27! 08/20/2011
Johnson Creek Clean Up Saturday, August 27 Help launch this year’s Johnson Creek Days by joining in the annual Johnson Creek Clean Up on Saturday, August 27 from 9am - 12pm. Volunteers will be removing litter and trash from Johnson Creek. The event will be followed by a volunteer appreciation BBQ from 12pm - 2pm at Mill Park in Milwaukie. To register a group or yourself email amy@jcwc.org. We'd like to see 100 volunteers come out for this year's clean up extravaganza - help us reach that goal! 15 Team Captains are also needed for this event. Team Captain orientation is from 6-7pm on Friday, August 26 at Mill Park in Milwaukie. Don't hesitate to email Amy if you are interested in leading a group of 5-10 volunteers through a stretch of the creek this year. This is the only large-scale in stream trash removal that occurs in Johnson Creek, so don’t miss this opportunity to help make a huge impact on this unique urban watershed! Special thanks to Clackamas County Water Environment Services, Green Lents, Recology and the Overland Park Coalition for their partnership and support of this event. Neighborhood Greenways coming to Lents! 07/25/2011
There are two public meetings coming up to get your feedback regarding the southern 80's Neighborhood Greenway Safety Project. This project will help to create safe routes to Kelly, Lent, Harrison Park, and the Village Free Schools. In addition, these routes will improve safe walking and biking access to Glenwood Park and Lent Park. Access to key transit hubs and businesses on 82nd, 92nd, Foster and at Eastport Plaza will also be improved. The Portland Bureau of Transportation has schedule two public meetings to discuss this project with YOU and your neighbors. Attend these two meetings to get more information about the project and get your voice heard in the process. Check out the dates below, or find the meetings on our Green Lents calendar in the tabs above. 1st Meeting: Tuesday July 26, 2011 Kelly Elementary School (9030 SE Cooper St.) 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. This first meeting is to provide an overview of the greenways, review existing traffic conditions on the routes and get your feedback. 2nd Meeting: Tuesday August 30, 2011 Kelly Elementary School (9030 SE Cooper St.) 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. This second meeting will be a follow up to the first meeting above with a presentation regarding recommendations on specific improvements. The Bureau has also partnered with the Bureau of Environmental Services and Friends of Trees in the Grey to Green initiative to expand neighborhood access to street trees. Information will be available at the meetings. Hope to see you there! There are many resources available to make it easy for us to recycle, compost and reduce both our personal and business waste that goes into the landfill. Even with all of the resources, most of our food waste still makes it into the landfill. Food waste is primary source of methane generation in landfills and that methane is one of the most damaging of the GHG’s (20 to 80xs more potent that CO2). Some Oregon landfills capture methane and put it to beneficial use, some flare it, some do nothing to manage it. None capture all of the methane generated by food wastes decomposing in typical landfill conditions. Making it as easy as possible for the people of Portland to compost food scraps is a critical part of cutting down our waste stream and greenhouse gas generation. For this reason, curb-side food waste collection is an important step in our region's efforts to reduce waste. Currently, there is a debate in our neighborhood about whether there will be harmful effects from allowing Recology, a waste management company, to accept compostable food waste at their Foster Rd reload station (SE 101st). Currently, Recology accepts yard waste at their site and is proposing to move the collection area inside of the building, add a ventilation system, and accept food scraps from the soon-to-be-citywide curbside food scraps collection program. You can read more about the pilot food scraps program that is currently underway here: City of Portland Food Scraps Collection Pilot. With proper infrastructure and maintenance, Recology's proposed compost transfer station at the Foster Rd site should not have an impact on livability in the Lents neighborhood, nor should they have a negative impact on Johnson Creek. Rather, with a Good Neighbor Agreement, Recology can be an asset. We can continue to have access to affordable compost and other materials close to home. In addition, Recology employees can help with neighborhood cleanup efforts and help us keep unnecessary waste from the landfill as they are trained in sorting recyclables from trash. As for this debate about Recology's land use application in Lents, take note of two upcoming opportunities to learn more and voice your informed opinion to the City:
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