Weekend plans? Learn to compost, fill up on cider, and check out critters of all sizes through our EcoMetro event listings.
Saturday, Community Gardens Organic Gardening and Composting
Community Gardens hosts Great Gardening! Vegetable Gardening Workshops
(Photo credit Community Gardens)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
9am - 2pm
People's Co-op Community Room
3029 SE 21st Ave
Workshops begin promptly at 9am.
9:00 - 10:00 ORGANIC GARDENING FUNDAMENTALS
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 BASIC COMPOSTING
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 COMPOST TEA
12:30 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:00 FALL GARDENING (WINTERIZING/SEED SAVING)
For more information or to register contact Community Gardens at
503-823-1612 or email at comgardens@ci.portland.or.us
Saturday and Sunday, Apples and Alpacas at the Hood River County Fruit Loop
Apples, pears, and baby alpacas abound in Hood River County! Celebrations at the following farms (make a day of it and try them all!):
Cider Day Celebration at Draper Girls Country Farm
Apple Cider Overboard at Packer Orchards and Cookie Stop Bakery
Heirloom Apple and Asian Pear Tasting at Kiyokawa Family Orchards & Fruit Stand
Alpaca Fiesta at Good Fortune Farms Alpacas
Saturday and Sunday, Howloween at the Zoo
Zoo animals love pumpkins too! If you missed the Squishing of the Squash, when the elephant herd mashed a giant pumpkin, you can still make it to the zoo this weekend for trick or treating with furry friends.
Saturday, Oct. 27
11 a.m.: Hippos
11:30 a.m.: Elephants
12 p.m.: Tigers
1 pm: Ocelots
Sunday, Oct. 28
11 a.m.: Polar bears
1 p.m.: Elephants
1:45 p.m.: Sun bears
2:30 pm: Tigers and leopards
Catch the tigers before their 9th birthday on Wednesday!
Monday, Friends of Trees Helps You Dress Up Your Sidewalk
Friends of Trees hosts a slideshow to help you pick the right tree for your sidewalk planting area--that much neglected patch of planting area that can make a neighborhood greener. If you haven't been to their website yet, pop over to view their listings of local trees complete with a tool that takes into account the width of your planting space and whether power lines are present to give you selections for the appropriate tree. For $75 you can have a tree and follow-up help, but order deadlines are coming up!
From Friends of Trees:
On Monday, Oct. 29, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friends of Trees' longtime
volunteer and tree expert Jim Gersbach will give a slide show at
Sunnyside Elementary School, 3421 SE Salmon, to help people choose which
trees to plant in their yards and parking strips this year. The slide
show will be especially helpful for all who live in the following
Portland neighborhoods with upcoming deadlines for initiating the tree
order process:
Nov. 15 interest deadline for the Jan. 19 planting in
Eastmoreland and Reed
Nov. 22 interest deadline for the Jan. 26 planting in
Laurelhurst and Sunnyside
Nov. 29 interest deadline for the Feb. 2 planting in Arbor
Lodge, Cathedral Park, Kenton, Portsmouth, St. Johns, and University
Park
Nov. 30 interest deadline for the Feb. 23 planting in
Alameda,
Beaumont-Wilshire, Concordia, Vernon and Woodlawn
Dec. 3 interest deadline for the Feb. 16 planting in Boise,
Eliot, Humboldt, King, Overlook, and Piedmont
Dec. 7 interest deadline for the March 1 planting in Argay,
Parkrose, Parkrose Heights, Russell and Wilkes
Jan. 3 interest deadline for the March 8 plantings in Center,
Cully, Montavilla, Roseway and Rose City Park
The slide show will also help people in these Vancouver, Wa.
neighborhoods with the following tree interest deadlines:
Nov. 15 interest deadline for the Jan. 19 planting in
Bennington, Cascade Highlands, Cascade South East, and Mountainview
Dec. 5 interest deadline for the Feb. 9 planting in Father
Blanchet Park, Marrion, North Garrison Heights, and Vancouver Heights
Dec. 27 interest deadline for the March 1 planting in Burnt
Bridge Creek, Image, and North Image
Jan. 14 interest deadline for the March 15 planting in
Arnada, Carter Park, Central Park, Hough, Lincoln, Rose Village, Shumway, and West Hazel Dell
To begin the tree order process, click on "Order Street Trees" at Friends of Trees and follow the simple three-step directions. If you have questions as you place your order, the neighborhood coordinator listed for your neighborhood on our web site planting schedule can assist you. Costs of trees vary by neighborhood depending on the grants Friends of Trees has secured to subsidize the actual $160 cost of the tree planting and follow-up monitoring. All homeowners are required to pay no more than $75 per tree, but donations to cover the remaining $85 in costs are welcome.