Really Really Free Market, Nov. 26, 12-6 PM

November 26, 2010
12:00 pmto6:00 pm

Black Friday Really Really Free Market
No money! No barter! No trade!
Bring whatever you want to give and take whatever you need! For gifts, supplies, and new ideas, come here! Food, music, workshops, ideas, books, seeds, bicycles, clothes, blankets, and whatever else (that isn’t junk).
Have a workshop you want to share? Want to help? email RRFM.EUG@gmail.com
Time: Black Friday, November 26, 12-6 PM
Location: The Lorax Manner, 1648 Alder Street between 16th and 17th Streets to the right of the alleyway facing west.
Why buy anything Together we are wealthy are free!

7th Annual Winter Cropping Roundtable and Seed Exchange, June 19, 1 – 4 pm

June 19, 2010
1:00 pmto4:00 pm

7th Annual Winter Cropping Roundtable and Seed Exchange

Where: Food For Lane County Youth Farm in N. Springfield

When: THIS SATURDAY June 19. 1.00 – 4.00 p.m.

Who: with Nick Routledge and Andrew Still, Adaptive Seeds,

Workshop is free and no pre-registration is required. Just show up and bring your gardening friends

Advanced winter cropping including a discussion of the specific vegetable and grain crop-types and varieties establishing themselves as proven, local mainstays in the light of tougher winter conditions of late; and our bioregion’s foremost winter seed exchange.

Bring your winter gardening experiences to share and seed to share if you have some.
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Directions to the FFLC youth farm:

From Springfield, go north on Pioneer Parkway. At the big roundabout, go west on Hayden Bridge Rd, turn right on Game Farm Rd. At the Baptist church, six blocks down, turn left on Flamingo and go two blocks to the end of the street. You’ll see the Youth Farm on your left.

From Eugene, take Coburg Rd north, then Harlow Rd east, cross I-5, pass Gateway, and turn left on Game Farm Rd (if you hit the big roundabout, you’ve gone one block too far). Six blocks down, at the Baptist church, turn left on Flamingo and go two blocks to the end of the street. You’ll see the Youth Farm on your left.

From I-5 going north: Take Beltline Rd east exit. Continue east on Beltline, cross Gateway. Follow Beltline east until you have passed the large hospital development on your left. Take the next right, which is Cardinal, then go immediately left on Game Farm. At the Baptist church a few blocks up, turn right on Flamingo (the road after Mallard) and go two blocks to the end of the street. You’ll see the Youth Farm on your left.

Fairmount Neighbors seed and plant exchange, May 18

May 18, 2010
6:30 pmto7:00 pm

The Fairmount Neighbors Sustainability Subcommittee is hosting a seed and plant exchange, from 6:30 to 7:00 PM on May 18th, just before the Fairmount Neighbors general meeting. The seed and plant exchange will be held either in the courtyard outside the Many Nations Longhouse (University of Oregon campus, just behind the law school and the Natural and Cultural History Museum) or just inside the Longhouse (depending on the weather). All are welcome. Bring your extra perennials, seeds, starts, indoor plants, and gardening supplies. No money is exchanged. Come meet your neighbors, stay for the general meeting, and take home some new plants! Contact: Katherine Lieberknecht, klieberknecht@gmail.com.