Urban Homesteading Workshop for Families, 9.18, 12:30-3:30

[ September 18, 2011; 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm. ] Urban Homesteading Workshop for Families Sunday, Sept. 18, 12:30- 3:30 Unitarian Universalist Church, Eugene 477 East 40th Ave (at Donald St) This hands-on workshop will introduce families to a new and exciting way of life that builds self-sufficiency and family bonds in an Earth-friendly way.  Kids, with their parents, will churn applesauce, see [...] [...]

GROWING A GARDEN CITY with JEREMY N. SMITH May 27 2011

[ May 27, 2011; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Friday, May 27, 2011, 6 p.m., free with light refreshments Amazon Community Center 2700 Hilyard Street, Eugene, OR 97405 Join us at a visiting author talk and Q&A for Growing a Garden City, one of Booklist’s top 10 books on the environment for 2011. Featuring 15 “new faces of local food”–a troubled teen, a grandmother of 20, [...] [...]

The Spring Bean Cleaning Spree–April 2nd

[ April 2, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Hummingbird Wholesale  and Slow Food Eugene Invite You To The Spring Bean Cleaning Spree–April 2nd It’s your turn to help build our local food system and enjoy yourself doing it.  There’s a whole hill o’ beans and they need to be sorted! Hummingbird Wholesale is helping out a local farmer who delivered some [...] [...]

Fund Raising for Lane Extension

[ June 13, 2010; 11:00 am to 1:00 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 [...] [...]

Forced Immigration, Food Security, & ‘Free Trade’

[ June 9, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Forced Immigration, Food Security, & ’Free Trade’: Putting Justice Back on the Table Harris Hall at 8th & Oak, Eugene A community forum on making trade work for people, Organized by Lane County Fair Trade Campaign A discussion on the impacts of and solutions to NAFTA, CAFTA & the WTO trade agreements *Major Increases in Forced Migration-Guadalupe Quinn, Immigrant Rights Advocacy Program (Amigos) *Threats to [...] [...]