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What a busy time. Here are some more items to add to the possibilities for cool spring opportunities:

Sunday, May 16: All Day Work Party at the North Portland Farm Annex. It’s a sprint! Things are going swimmingly. We have an incredible water hook up, a developing fence, a thousand onions, and several trees breathing great sighs of relief having un-ivied access to air and sun. However, there’s a solid 2,000 hours of work to be done there before I can foresee there being anything “done” about the spot. For those unsure what it is, it’s a 1/2 acre beautiful tract of land that used to be gnarly. No longer, and only getting better! Tasks for this weekend:

Machete and Cardboard: sheet mulching the hell out of 100′ x 8′ of blackberry life.
Hand and Glove: Finishing the central retaining wall. Dry stack urbanite: what an approachable building material!
Sifter and Wheelbarrow: Sifting the debris and rocks from a row of soil.
Gloves and Ratchet: Stretching the new sides of fencing
Hand and Soil: Potting up a few hundred tomato starts
Planting!
and actually far too much more to list. But these are pretty fun.

Monday, May 17th: Project Grow Double Down! (not to be confused with KFC’s new product)
Project Grow’s first Artist-In-Residence, Brenda Hutchinson is putting on a “fun show” called “Tiny Offerings” at Sea Change Gallery at the Everett Street Lofts. Lets unpack that. Brenda is a sound and social practice artist. Sea Change is a socially-engaged-focused art gallery downtown, that Project Grow has been given the keys to for the month of May. The experiment is this: what happens when the “staff” roles diminish as much as they can, and things are created more entirely by the artists of Project Grow. It’s pretty awesome so far. This project is part of the Open Engagement Conference. So anyhow, the show is 3 minute “Tiny Offerings” by people that want to share them. There is a video camera in case you need your offering enlarged. If you can blink quickly, speak backwards, or freak people out however, please come share. It is at 2:30 pm! Early enough for even my bedtime!