Just got a message from Julie Sabatier that this will be the last Destination DIY listening part for a while. If you wanted to become a backyard chicken farmer* (who wouldn't?), tonight is your night...Info: Destination DIY: Urban Farming New episode available August 28 at http://destinationdiy.org and via the OPB podcast Listening Party August 28, 7pm Waypost Coffeeshop, [...]

Bloom! 2008 Tryon Life Community Farm Portland, Oregon celebrating permaculture, interconnectedness, and community living. more info: http://www.tryonfarm.org/share/BLOOM-2008 photographed and produced by raku http://www.rakuloren.com/ music cinematic orchestra http://www.cinematicorchestra.com/ Thanks for taking the time!

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Added: May 1, 2008

When the members of the Tryon Life Community Farm sat down to finalize their experiment in sustainable urban livability, they made some disturbing discoveries. For starters, their communal living arrangement already violated city housing policies. Although never enforced, the city says only six ...

When the members of the Tryon Life Community Farm sat down to finalize their experiment in sustainable urban livability, they made some disturbing discoveries. For starters, their communal living arrangement already violated city housing policies. Although never enforced, the city says only six ...

WW revisited this week's Rogue of the Week last night as Tryon Life Community Farm members hosted a public meeting on the proposal that caught our attention this week. About 30 people attended the meeting at Laughing Horse Books in Northeast Portland ?some traveling as far as from Albany?to hear volunteers and residents of Tryon Life Farm discuss plans to begin their 'Recode Portland' campaign. Farm resident Russ Romas explained that while the current code runs on a complaint-based system and that the "gray water" issue is rarely enforced, neighbors could complain if they saw someone using bath water or laundry water (aka gray water) for their garden.Oregon DEQ defines gray water as sewage since it could contain fecal matter. The meeting kicked off what promises to be a long process to recode Portland's building and zoning codes to allow sustainable practices?more specifically the use of gray water for gardens. Brenna Bell, a founding farm member, told the supportive gathering that "in what is being considered one of the most sustainable cities, we are being held back by bureaucratic processes." She said there is a growing network of urban planners, and green-do-it-yourself-folks who have been fighting to change Portland's building and zoning codes regarding the use of gray water. "A lot of the research that I thought we'd be doing now has already been done, but it's just not in the public sphere yet," she said. As for WW's Rogue designation, Bell told the audience that this recoding, "will affect all of us, statewide," not jus...

mattgordon writes "Tryon Life Community Farm is offering a summer farm day camp for young people ages 8-11 from July 24-27, Tuesday-Friday, 9:00am-2:00pm. Tryon Life Community Farm is a unique non-profit sustainability education center on 7 acres surrounded by Tryon Creek State Park.Come spend four days in this beautiful farm and forest setting while helping in the gardens, tending farm animals, playing games, cooking with fresh ingredients, getting to know insects, building with natural materials, singing songs, meeting new people, and having lots of fun!

The documentary, "The Power of Community ? How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this.

After the film, Jenny Leis will apply the lessons learned to Portland's community of changemakers, and encourage each of us to take the exciting steps towards integrating our own social capital so that we can manifest our community power.

Jenny has returned to the Portland community to spark conversations and action about local "cross-pollination," and dive deeper into her work with The City Repair Project and Tryon Life Community Farm. She can be contacted at jennyleis@riseup.net or 503-548-8459. Also, check out: http://journeydejenny.blogspot.com