Category Archives: Whiteaker

11th Annual Food Not Lawns Seed Swap

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December 5, 2010
1:00 pmto3:00 pm

The Institute of Contemporary Ethnobotany and the
Seed Ambassadors Project present:

The 11th ANNUAL: FOOD NOT LAWNS SEED SWAP

Sunday, Dec. 5
1:00 – 3:00 pm
(come at noon to help set up!)
FREE

The Community Room at the East Blair Housing Coop,
940 W. 4th st.
(Btwn. Adams & Jackson also accessible from W. 4th alley)

Build community by sharing surplus harvest bounty with
your friends and neighbors at this annual event.

Bring your seeds, plants, canned goods, brews,
tinctures, food, instruments, friends, or just
yourself! (piano on site…)

http://www.foodnotlawns.net/
www.seedambassadors.org
http://plants-people.blogspot.com

2010 Sustainable Neighborhood (not just) Bike Tour Schedule

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2010 Sustainable Neighborhood (not just) Bike Tour Schedule

July

17, 18 – River Road Community Organization/RRCO. July 17 meet at 11AM at Rosetta Park, Benjamin and Evergreen. Visit pesticide-free public park space, chicken-keeping, permaculture design, green building, neighborhood collaboration, and more. Open house afterwords at suburban permaculture site at 212 Benjamin, 3 to 5PM.

August

7 – Friendly Neighborhood- West (of Jefferson St)/FAN-West (excursion into Crest Dr neighborhood 8/7). Meet at Friendly Street Market, 2757 Friendly, at 11AM. Tour will include community right-of-way cooperative “Common Ground” garden, chickenkeeping, beekeeping, edible landscaping, passive solar design home by UO women’s student architecture group, high-density new urbanism ‘Lucia Village’ community, permaculture home design presentation by Heiko Koester, and more
8 - Friendly Neighborhood- East (Jefferson St & east)FAN-East. Meet at Village School, 2855 Lincoln, 1 PM. Tour will include a permaculture design presentation by Heiko Koester, a visit to a solar PV College Hill home, as well as a visit to a home with an ultra hi-efficient ductless heat pump indoor climate system.
14 – Jefferson Westside, 10AM, meet at Monroe Park. Tour will include chickenkeeping, beekeeping, permaculture gardens, recycled garden art, water catchment, solar panels, and more. The tour homes are within walking distance of each other.
21 – Amazon, meet at Camas Ridge Community School, 1150 East 29th Avenue, at 10am. Tour will visit school gardens, feature beekeeping, chickenkeeping, communally built outdoor oven, aerobic composting, compost teamaking, passive/active solar design, rainwater catchment, green building, and more.

September

4 – Whiteaker Community Council/WCC
11- Fairmount Neighborhood- more to come.
18 – Active Bethel Citizens/ABC. Tour features a permaculture-designed eco-village, backyard chickens, rainwater catchment, ‘geo-thermal’ heating (more to come), PV solar design, and a gathering at Peterson Barn featuring locally-grown food. More to come.
19 (Sunday)- Laurel Hill Valley. 1-3 pm. Meet at Northwest Youth Corps, 2621 Augusta St. Tour by bike, pedicab and carpool. Sites feature organic gardens, PV electricity, green home design and reuse of materials, wildlife-friendly landscaping, small-scale chickenkeeping, food preservation, bioswales and watershed protection.
25 – Southeast Neighbors/SEN, meet at 450 E 30th Ave, 10 AM.

Fund Raising for Lane Extension Service

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June 13, 2010
11:00 amto1:00 pm

This Sunday, June 13th from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. there will be a workshop on fund raising and consciousness raising for Lane Extension. It will be at the Whiteaker Community Center on the corner of Clark and North Jackson. For those who want to help there is a pre-class where the techniques will be taught so you can help in the main class. Lane Extension is an important part of food security in Lane County.For more information you may contact Anand Holtham-Keathley at 541 343-3017 or eekley@efn.org.

Winter Gardening Workshop, June 13, 2 – 4 pm

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June 13, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm

Winter Gardening – Start Planning Now
Description: A winter gardening workshop will be held on Sunday, June 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Whiteaker Community Garden. The workshop will be led by Ted Purdy, FOOD for Lane County Youth Farm coordinator. Workshops are free and open to the community, but pre-registration is required, as
space is limited.
For more information, or to register, please contact Lorna Baldwin at 541-682-4845 or lorna.j.baldwin@ci.eugene.or.us.
Location: Whiteaker Community Garden, at the end of North Polk
Phone: 541-682-4845
Contact: Lorna Baldwin

Sustainability in Society: Torture and PTSD, Wednesday May 12th

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Wednesday May 12th at 7 p.m. the Whiteaker Community Council will host Ms Ruth Forman Vargas the Clinical Supervisor of OHSU’s Torture Treatment Center here in Eugene. Her work in post traumatic stress disorder is revolutionary from a cultural psychiatric perspective based on ancient and current Chilean wisdom traditions. Ms Vargas woks with Siempre Amigos, a Eugene bilingual and bicultural mental health program serving survivors of torture, trauma and political violence from Central and South America. She wants the gathering to focus the community on “the urgency for a political response by citizens to the persistent and widespread practice of torture, as well as for a personal commitment to support victims of torture in our community.” The meeting is at the Whiteaker Community Building on the corner of Clark and North Jackson. For further information you may call Anand at 541 343-3017.