A day at the North Portland Farm, particularly our CSA harvest day (tuesday). I hope this gets some of the amazing/hilarious/wonderful nature of the process across. Otherwise, enjoy the Wu-strumentals.
Harvest Day from Lasercave on Vimeo.
Babies
reblogged from project grow
Duck Cam from Lasercave on Vimeo.
A Proposition:
We -the most capable, brilliant, and innovative of us- descend upon a carefully chosen, largely depopulated (< 100) town . . .
thereby taking over the voting apparatus of the town . . . thus gaining control of some useful resources and infrastructure that could then be moved in the direction of self-sustaining
communities; as well as [...]
CSA growth
Thanks to another 1/2 acre, the North Portland Farm is going to be able to offer a jaw-dropping 5 CSA shares for 2010 (in addition to restaurant sales, sales to grocers, and direct sales). This projects to be in line with the growth indicated by Local Harvest’s CSA by the Numbers research:
A lot of statistical [...]
EcoFarm 2010
Pretty cool. It seems like everyone has the answer for greater food production based on their wacky, new-age fertilizer/amendment/magnetic resonance water treatment, but everyone is also very nice. Repping the North Portland Farm, networking with cool people, selling DVD’s. Jade and I saw the fantastic Wes Jackson and the wonderful (albeit longwinded) Frances Moore Lappe [...]
North Portland Farm Feature
Folks over at Net Green came by to interview me about fall vegetable gardening in the PNW, but ended up doing a slightly bigger picture interview and profile on the farm. I’ve never heard of the website, but you know they’re legit if they make you cringe and wish you did more than one take.
CAVETALK 00A: Mark Lakeman of City Repair on PLACEMAKING
Mark Lakeman, of City Repair, describing his experiences working at the Village Building Convergence, why the Northwest is really getting-r-done, and how we can all conspire to shower each other with fantastic blessings through the process of PLACEMAKING.
Helsing Junction Sleepover V
The answer to the question everyone wants to know:When is the Sleepover? – August 21st to 23rd 2009. Friday to Sunday. At Helsing Junction Farm.
Expect live music, film/video, tasty organic food, a farm, a river with swimming, camping with friends, and possibly a tame deer to hang out with.
Are you coming?
More info coming soon…
Do-Goodery at the White House
I weathered the campaign season and Obamania with a cynical outlook about this dude I knew very little about. I am still unrepentantly cynical. However, I am occasionally very impressed with the administration (and alternately distressed/easy to impress with no expectations). After following the various lobbies for the White House to plant [...]
fest
I am still full and fat from last night’s feast! I wanted to bring up one thing that I forgot to mention:
I have been thinking about making my car communal/cooperative/collaborative/collectivist. I know someone in town who does this with his housemates…don’t know much about the system he uses. If homies were into it, [...]