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Portland Evolvers-- Food!
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October 21, 2009 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
4134 N Borthwick Ave
Portland, OR 97217
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In the last fifty years, the meteoric rise of agribusiness has wreaked havoc upon our global food supply. Corporate entities like Monsanto and Cargill are wiping out agricultural diversity with monoculture crops, bankrupting small farmers with unsustainable practices, toxifying our waterways with pesticides and fertilizers, treating animals cruelly, and endangering the web of life with genetically modified foods.
But a growing movement is striking back and taking action to maintain our food security in the 21st Century. These “greenhorns” are creating CSAs, tending rooftop gardens, building aquaponic systems, learning permaculture principles, starting Transition Towns and eco-villages, urban homesteading, saving seed varieties, and practicing slow food ethics to ensure agricultural sustainability. In this Spore, we will have expert speakers who can help us sort out food fact from fiction. And we'll break (organic, gluten-free) bread as a community!
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I'm excited to meet everyone and for this topic
— Oct 20, 2009
Hiya, I'm one of the code monkeys that works on this site and I just moved to Portland! I'm particularly interested in this topic. Sierra Club just sent out a map of Farmers Markets today: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=NAT_FarmersMarket&...
Food
— Oct 21, 2009
Hi,
I'm unable to attend the meeting tomorrow night, but I am the marketing & development director for Food Alliance, a third party certification program for sustainable agriculture and food processing based here in Portland. I am planning several Portland activities that I would like the group's feedback on and feel I have some interesting perspectives on the food system that would add to the discussion. Please keep me informed as to the next gathering - I'd be happy to host and event at my home in St Johns.
Hi all, I woke up with the
— Oct 21, 2009
Hi all, I woke up with the flu this morning and have decided to quarentine myself to my house. I hope it is a productive meeting and I'll see everyone at the meeting next month!
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It's harvest time...
and there are a lot of fruit trees and gardens all over portland.
This resource is cool lets go harvest what the city has to offer:
http://urbanedibles.org/
I find I feel really good when I eat from a growing plant....I say try it this is a good city to start. Walking down a local steet I often end up with pears and tomatos and herbs in my stomach. It's also a good exercise in awareness of our environment.