gardening/farming

Grow Your Own! 9 month Course - from soil to seed to table
Nourish your body and our soil.

-Build soil
-Grow vegetables, herbs and edible flowers
-Harvest
-Recipes
-Ferments and Preservation
-Seed saving and more.

Savor the best food you'll ever eat - your own.
http://handmadegardenspdx.com/year-round-harvest-course/
Seeds and Plants, Mentorship, Classes, Community Building

Classes begin February 20.
At NE 45th and Going, Cully neighborhood.
Scholarships, payment plans and work trade available.
www.handmadegardenspdx.com

We would like to invite you to this month's Rewilding Skill Series. The Rewilding Free Skills Series is a class & networking event that happens monthly, that usually occurs (but not always) on the last Saturday of the month. It is a place for social networking where people make new friends and hang out with old friends learning skills to connect us with humanity's ancestral past and more local and sustainable future. We ask for a $5 - $10 suggested donation with no one turned away.

This month's theme is Acorn Processing and Oak Savanna Restoration. This is a skill we teach year after year: how to turn acorns from bitter nuts, into a delicious flour, and how to keep restore those ecosystems that produce acorns. Come learn more, share what you know, crack and grind some acorns, taste a few treats made from acorn flour, and take home a baby Oregon White Oak to plant!

We would like to invite you to this month's Rewilding Skill Series. The Rewilding Free Skills Series is a class & networking event that happens monthly, that usually occurs (but not always) on the last Saturday of the month. It is a place for social networking where people make new friends and hang out with old friends learning skills to connect us with humanity's ancestral past and more local and sustainable future. We ask for a $5 - $10 suggested donation with no one turned away.

This month's theme is Stinging Nettle and Other Spring Greens. In late winter and early spring, many edible greens begin to emerge. Let's celebrate them by learning about them, how to encourage their growth, what roles they play in ecology, how to process and prepare them, and of course, how to eat them and what nutritional value they bring! Come to learn and share what you know. Find us at Picnic Area F, furthest parking lot, on the bike path just passed the bathrooms on the Columbia River side.

Pollinators
Sunday February 28th, 1pm - 4pm
NE Portland, Vernon neighborhood
 
Pollinators serve an important role in our local food web. More specifically, we need them in order for our fruit trees to produce bountiful fruit sets! In this hands-on workshop, you will gain a basic understanding of bee-keeping, learn about the life of bees, how to construct mason bee habitats, and which plants are favorable for attracting pollinators. For the hands-on portion of this workshop, we'll be cleaning mason bee cocoons and assembling mason bee habitats that will be installed at our 2016 Community Orchard sites.  Additionally, every participant will get to take home cocoons, paper tubes for starter bee homes, and pollinator friendly flower seeds.

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About the instructors:

Jen Davis lives in Portland with her two kids and husband.  She is an artist, writer, filmmaker and urban farmer.  She grows 16 kinds of fruit, and nearly one half of her family's vegetable supply.  She also keeps ducks, and has raised Mason bees for ten years.  She teaches Mason bee workshops from home and at schools throughout the region.

 Madelyn Morris is a Portland-based educator and co-owns Mickelberry Gardens, LLC with her husband. The start-up company is developing a product line based on locally harvested herbs, raw honey, beeswax, and other hive products from the couple's steadily growing honeybee apiary in southeast Portland - where humane, ethical, and organic beekeeping methods are always utilized. Madelyn is happy to share her enthusiasm for honeybees and other pollinating insects, and promotes deepening our relationship with these fascinating and helpful creatures. www.mickelberrygardens.com

 The location address and other details will be provided after you register.

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This free and practical workshop teaches you how to design and maintain an urban yard that saves you time, money, and energy while also conserving water, building soil, and creating habitat for birds and pollinators.  The workshop is taught by a landscape professional who will teach you the basics of:

• site planning and designing more natural spaces
• attracting beneficial pollinators and decreasing pest problems
• reducing or eliminating pollution to soil and water and harmful exposure to humans from synthetic chemical use

Whether you DIY or work with a landscaper, this workshop gives you the framework to make decisions in your yard that benefit both your health and the health of your watershed. The class will visit a nearby naturescaped project to see design principles in action. You'll receive a comprehensive workbook and a free native plant to get you started.