green living

Polish The Jade 2016: It is that time of year again! Get involved by volunteering your time and help beautify the Jade District community. Polish the Jade is a community clean-up event that brings volunteers together to clean, repair and improve public spaces that have been neglected or misused. Get ready to pick up trash, take down graffiti and plant some vegetables. Bring your friends and family or meet new people who enjoy making the community a better place! Sign up with us today! Activities include: Litter Cleanup, Garden and Graffiti.

Register online here: http://solveoregon.org/get-involved/events/polish-jade

Learn expert techniques for soil care and preparation, tailored to our climate.

Where can I fit more vegetables?  Learn to make the most of your garden site.

Get inspired by our abundant winter harvest.

We will also cover:

-tools and tool care

-garden ergonomics to save your body

and other tips for early spring garden management.

Cost: $35 for one or two people who share the same garden; bring a friend for $30.

$5 for SNAP recipients, free for houseless or undocumented.  

This class is part of our 9-month program in the Year Round Harvest.

www.handmadegardenspdx.com

Puddle problems? Rain gardens are landscape features that collect and treat runoff from places like driveways, rooftops, sidewalks, and parking lots. Learn step-by-step how to plan, design, and build your own rain garden!  Topics include determining the right size and location for a rain garden, how to build it, and advice on choosing plants that will thrive in it.  The workshop includes a field trip to a nearby rain garden. 

Help us plan ahead.  Register online at http://emswcd.org/workshops

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 Natural Movement. Most people these days in first world countries like the United States grow up with their feet firmly planted in shoes, walking on hard, flat ground. We sit in chairs, hunched over a keyboard (as I am right now), for hours on end. This isn't what our Gene's have in mind for the way in which our bodies are meant to interact with the world, and in nature. So how do we move naturally? We'll be looking at animal movements, MovNat techniques, and other aspects of how humans have moved, and still move today, without the aid of shoes, in rough and wild terrain. Come learn what our bodies can really do, and share what you may already know!