What: Urban Farmers Coop Information Session
When: Monday 1/24 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Minehaha Grange Hall, 4905 NE St. Johns Blvd.
Cost: FREE
Calling All Urban Farmers!
Join Vancouver’s Urban Famers Co-op!
Urban Farmers Co-op: Growing markets for urban raised bounty.
Do you have a green thumb and want to sell your produce, but don’t
know where to start?
Urban Abundance is launching Urban Farmers Co-op this spring. Urban
Farmers Co-op (UFC) offers urban growers a gateway to the marketplace
by providing a staffed vendor booth along with accounting and
marketing management for coop members’ produce. The UFC will make it
easy for you to live out your dream of being a farmer without leaving
the city limits. At the UFC booth, located in the heart of the Uptown
Village at the new Urban Growers Market, you will be able to find
produce grown by neighbors from just down the street.
Interested? Now is the time to start thinking about your garden plan!
www.myurbanabundance.org/urbanfarmerscoop
For more info contact Maika Horjus 360-909-9012
[email protected]
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What: Wildflower Seedball Workshop
When: Tuesday 2/1 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Columbia Springs Environmental Center, Swift Classroom, 12208 SE Evergreen Hwy, http://www.columbiasprings.org/CSmap.jpg
Cost: FREE
Mix Clay, Compost and Native Wildflower seeds and “presto!” you have seedballs to toss around your yard and neighborhood creating a landscape that supports native pollinators and smiles. Seed balls are one-half inch diameter models of the living world protecting seed from predators and giving them all their base needs for germination once the rains come. They are a cost effective restoration technique that can be made by anyone anywhere in the world where there is soil and seed.
Making seedballs is also a great opportunity to meet others interested in creating abundance in our urban neighborhoods.
We will be serving a vegetarian stew, cornbread and salad. So please RSVP if you'd like to share food.
For more information on seedballs visit: www.myurbanabundance.org/wildflowerseedballworkshop
Hosted by Urban Abundance
www.myurbanabundance.org
For more details or RSVP contact Warren Neth 360-771-1296 or [email protected]
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What: Urban Farmers Coop Information Session
When: Monday 2/7 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Minehaha Grange Hall, 4905 NE St. Johns Blvd.
Cost: FREE
Calling All Urban Farmers!
Join Vancouver’s Urban Famers Co-op!
Urban Farmers Co-op: Growing markets for urban raised bounty.
Do you have a green thumb and want to sell your produce, but don’t
know where to start?
Urban Abundance is launching Urban Farmers Co-op this spring. Urban
Farmers Co-op (UFC) offers urban growers a gateway to the marketplace
by providing a staffed vendor booth along with accounting and
marketing management for coop members’ produce. The UFC will make it
easy for you to live out your dream of being a farmer without leaving
the city limits. At the UFC booth, located in the heart of the Uptown
Village at the new Urban Growers Market, you will be able to find
produce grown by neighbors from just down the street.
Interested? Now is the time to start thinking about your garden plan!
www.myurbanabundance.org/urbanfarmerscoop
For more info contact Maika Horjus 360-909-9012
[email protected]
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What: Grow Vancouver: Seed swap and give away
When: Tuesday 2/15 @ 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Harney Elementary - Cafeteria 3212 E Evergreen Blvd 98661 Vancouver, WA
Cost: FREE
Bring your extra vegetable seed and trade with neighbors.
Bring home bags full of Free Vegetable and Herb Seed that has been donated to Urban Abundance.
This will also be the first Grow Vancouver gathering. Besides seed exchanging there will be opportunities to plan more urban agriculture projects with neighbors. Vegetarian stew and cornbread will be available. Feel free to bring other food goodies to share!
Find more information: www.myurbanabundance.org/growvancouver
or contact Warren Neth 360-771-1296
[email protected]
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What: Grow Vancouver: Seed swap and give away
When: Tuesday 3/15 @ 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Harney Elementary - Cafeteria 3212 E Evergreen Blvd 98661 Vancouver, WA
Cost: FREE
Making seedballs is also a great opportunity to meet others interested in creating abundance in our urban neighborhoods.
We will be serving a vegetarian stew, cornbread and salad. So please RSVP if you'd like to share food.
For more information on seedballs visit: www.myurbanabundance.org/wildflowerseedballworkshop Hosted by Urban Abundance www.myurbanabundance.org For more details or RSVP contact Warren Neth 360-771-1296 or[email protected]
Bring your extra vegetable seed and trade with neighbors. Bring home bags full of Free Vegetable and Herb Seed that has been donated to Urban Abundance. This will also be the first Grow Vancouver gathering. Besides seed exchanging there will be opportunities to plan more urban agriculture projects with neighbors. Vegetarian stew and cornbread will be available. Feel free to bring other food goodies to share!
Find more information: www.myurbanabundance.org/growvancouver
or contact Warren Neth 360-771-1296
[email protected]
Growing Groceries Mentor Program
The Growing Groceries Mentor Program is a new Clark County collaborative effort focused on training and linking experienced gardeners to serve as mentors in community based garden programs.
The training program, offered one Saturday a month January through April, will feature speakers on:
§ site and plant selection
§ soils and irrigation
§ composting and environmental stewardship
§ harvesting and preserving
§ community participation, organization and leadership
Each of the four trainings will cover 3 hours of technical gardening related knowledge, and one hour of community involvement. We will then pair mentors with organizations in need of support, such as neighborhood associations, schools, faith-based and emergency food organizations, and community garden sites. Mentors will serve as a technical resource and a garden champion for existing or planned food gardening programs, but they will also have all the skills needed to start collaborative gardens with their own organizations or communities!
This program was developed through joint efforts of Clark County, WSU Clark County Extension, Vancouver-Clarks Parks and Recreation and other community garden advocates.
Please see the attached flyer for dates and registration information, and please share this opportunity with your networks and friends.
For more information, contact:
Ariel Rivers
AmeriCorps Garden Coordinator
Clark County Public Health
[email protected]
(360) 397-8000, ext. 7388
To register: https://ocrs.wsu.edu/Signup/?eventid=585
The training program, offered one Saturday a month January through April, will feature speakers on:
§ site and plant selection
§ soils and irrigation
§ composting and environmental stewardship
§ harvesting and preserving
§ community participation, organization and leadership
Each of the four trainings will cover 3 hours of technical gardening related knowledge, and one hour of community involvement. We will then pair mentors with organizations in need of support, such as neighborhood associations, schools, faith-based and emergency food organizations, and community garden sites. Mentors will serve as a technical resource and a garden champion for existing or planned food gardening programs, but they will also have all the skills needed to start collaborative gardens with their own organizations or communities!
This program was developed through joint efforts of Clark County, WSU Clark County Extension, Vancouver-Clarks Parks and Recreation and other community garden advocates.
Please see the attached flyer for dates and registration information, and please share this opportunity with your networks and friends.
For more information, contact:
Ariel Rivers
AmeriCorps Garden Coordinator
Clark County Public Health
[email protected]
(360) 397-8000, ext. 7388
To register: https://ocrs.wsu.edu/Signup/?eventid=585
Rose Village Gateway & Neighorhood Garden Project
@ 39th & P
Research has proven that within 1000 feet of a new garden, there is a positive impact on the appearance of the surrounding area. Neighbors are inspired by the appearance of a beautiful bountiful garden. Gardens literally ‘seed’ other gardens. If you have energy, tools, access to signs, mulch or plants that you can dedicate to some of our exciting and on-going garden projects—please let us know and come join us. We have group work days planned throughout the summer and fall (see "Neighborhood Garden" days on our calendar) which will raise the appearance and the attitudes of our neighborhoods.
Photos from past Work Days: June 27th, June 6th, & May 16th
Conceptual Landscape Plan: Click here
Contact: Green Spaces Coalition Chairs - See Contacts Page
Photos from past Work Days: June 27th, June 6th, & May 16th
Conceptual Landscape Plan: Click here
Contact: Green Spaces Coalition Chairs - See Contacts Page