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Fairmount Neighborhood Farmers Market

[ August 8, 2010; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The Fairmount Neighborhood Farmers Market is still going strong, every Sunday from 10-3 PM. The market is held at the Sun Automotive parking lot at the corner of Agate and 19th.

A blog has also been created that offers cooking ideas and recipes for produce and other foods purchased at the Fairmount Neighbors [...] [...]

Fairmount Farmers Market, starting Sunday, May 30, 10 am - 2 or 3 pm

[ July 18, 2010; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Join friends and neighbors at the Fairmount Neighborhood Sunday Farmers Market, in the Sun Automotive parking lot, on the southeast corner of Agate and 19th Ave. The market starts on Sunday, July 18, from 10 am to 3 pm. [...]

Amazon Orchard Co-Op Organizational Meeting, May 22 4pm

[ May 22, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Amazon neighborhood residents interested in discussing creation of a neighborhood orchard co-op are invited to come to an initial discussion on Saturday, May 22 at 4pm at the McMenamin’s East 19th Street Cafe.

The basic idea of the orchard co-op is to work together to increase the number of productive fruit trees in Amazon. We’d [...] [...]

Chicken revival | City-dwelling poultry lovers have created a growing market

R-G writer Diane Dietz joined our Friendly Neighborhood Farmers social networking website this month. She’s featured mention of our work and the upcoming tour de coop this Saturday in the article. Read on!….

www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/24679518-41/chicken-chickens-urban-bezuk-eugene.csp
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Chicken revival | City-dwelling poultry lovers have created a growing market

By Diane Dietz
The Register-Guard

Appeared in print: Sunday, Apr 18, [...] [...]

New Bee Co-Op Launches in Amazon

Amazon Neighborhood is all abuzz with the activities of a new bee co-op which helps interested persons raise their own bees, assist others to raise bees, or simply own and host their own hive managed by other co-op members.

Co-Op members installed 8 new hives last Saturday in Amazon and two in other areas.  This week [...] [...]

That’s My Farmer — April 14

[ April 14, 2010; 12:00 am to 8:30 pm. ] First United Methodist Church at 13th and Olive.

Deepen your connection to 15 local farmers at the restructured 11th annual That’s My Farmer event. Learn directly from the farmers about topics as diverse as preserving farm land; growing, cooking, and preserving vegetables and fruits; all-about-chickens; making sauerkraut; building soil or a backyard greenhouse; working with draft [...] [...]

Amazon Bee Co-Op Bee Day, April 10

[ April 10, 2010; 12:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] On April 11th, The newly formed Amazon Bee C0-Op will be installing bees into the 10 new hives members built over the past couple of weeks.  We’ll be starting about 9am and plan to be finished by about 4pm.

Persons interested in helping or just watching are welcome to email:  amazonbees@gmail.com for more information. [...]

Amazon Bee Co-Op?

[ March 18, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Anyone in Amazon interested in working with me to form a neighborhood bee co-op is invited to an informal brainstorming meeting March 18th 5:30pm at McMenamin’s East 19th Street cafe.

The season to make new hives is rapidly approaching, but there’s still time!

Goals I have in mind are:

Increase the number of bee-friendly hives in the neighborhood
Work [...] [...]