N. Concord Ave. and N. Overlook Blvd. 97227
Saturday, May 31, 2014, 9 am to 4 pm
Join neighbors this Saturday for street mural and planter box repainting, food, drinks and fun at the intersection as part of the Village Building Convergence. Email sustainable@overlookneighborhood.org if you would like to play music, have an idea for a booth, kid’s activity, or any other addition you think will add to the day! Ken is bringing Kenny & Zuke’s famous pastrami, and we’re asking neighbors to bring a veggie dish to share. Our awesome Firefighting crew will have rinsed the intersection, so we’ll get right to the painting! Bring a paintbrush if you can. Come early, stay late – we’re going to have a good time… Join us!
Sustainable Overlook is having a meeting tonight. Join in the discussion about neighborhood resilience, upcoming sustainability events and meet your neighbors!
LUCKY LAB, 1700 NORTH KILLINGSWORTH ST. PORTLAND, OR 97217
Thursday, May 8, 6:30-8-30 pm
Thanks to everyone who visited Overlook Neighborhood on the National Pesticide Forum tour! It was such a pleasure to be on the tour and meet people from all over the country doing amazing work. If you missed the tour, you can take a virtual tour of Mulysa’s garden at her blog and be sure to mark your calendar for the 3rd annual Overlook Garden Tour on June 28.
We’ve just updated our resource page with the handouts we brought to the forum. Check them out for information about our sustainability group, the pesticide free neighborhood project and tips on starting a bee-friendly neighborhood where you live!
Register now for this incredible conference! Sustainable Overlook will be giving a neighborhood tour on Friday April 11 and Pesticide Free Overlook coordinator Mulysa Melco will be speaking at the Organic Land Management workshop on April 12.
Keynote presentations, workshops, and plenary panels will focus on solutions to the decline of pollinators and other beneficials; strengthening organic agriculture; improving farmworker protection and agricultural justice; and creating healthy buildings, schools and homes. By working with a range environmental, health, consumer, and farm organizations, we expect to bring together a diverse crowd in order to share our efforts to build local, state and national strategies for strength, growth and health—in line with our conference theme, Advancing Sustainable Communities.For more information and to register, go to www.beyondpesticides.org/forum. In addition to the program, people, science, sharing and strategizing, you won’t want to miss the food! Organic food and beverages will be served for breakfast, lunch and dinner Saturday, and we will have organic hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine for receptions on Friday and Saturday night. Click here for the speaker lineup.Register online todayor call 202-543-5450 to register by phone.We encourage you to register in advance to ensure your space and food, but walk-ins are welcome as long as space is available.This Forum is being convened by NCAP and
Workshop: Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 – 8:30 PM at the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
Come at 6 pm for refreshments and networking.
King School Facility, 4815 N.E. 7th Ave., bus lines 6 and 72
With spring around the corner, the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN) will host a workshop on March 19th on how to start a bee-friendly garden project in your neighborhood.
Did you know that planting bee-friendly flowers is the most important thing you can do to help save both native bees and honey bees? Even if you don’t know a daisy from a daffodil, it’s easy to grow some pollen-bearing plants that the bees will love. It’s even more fun if you join with your neighbors to learn about bees and take action together. That’s what residents of the Sabin Community Association did, and now they want to share some practical tips that will help you start a bee-friendly garden project in your community.
Join the following experts for a panel discussion and Q&A:
• Mace Vaughan, Pollinator Program Director at Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-founder of the Sabin Bee-Friendly Garden Project
• Tim Wessels, Master Beekeeping Instructor at Oregon State University, President of the Portland Urban Beekeepers, and founder of Bridgetown Bees
• Diane Benson, Coordinator for the Sabin Bee-Friendly Garden Project*
• Glen Andresen, Gardening and beekeeping educator and host of The Dirtbag, a KBOO radio show about organic gardening
• Mulysa Melco – Landscape designer of homesteads and habitats, Volunteer for Sustainable Overlook and Coordinator of their Pesticide Free Overlook project.
*The Sabin Bee-Friendly Garden Tour is a free, self-guided tour with 41 sites that you can visit whenever you like – spring, summer or fall. A map and a guide to the gardens are available on the Sabin website (sabinpdx.org). Sabin hopes to inspire other neighborhoods to create similar projects for protecting pollinators and building community.
Bring seeds to share and envelopes/containers. If you’re new to seed saving come to learn and get seeds to grow and share at future swaps. We’ll have seeds for veggies, cover crop, flowers, herbs, etc. Everyone welcome!
Sponsored by Sustainable Overlook and Pesticide-Free Arbor Lodge Park.
There are very welcome signs of spring appearing around the neighborhood! And a planting day from our partner Friends of Overlook Bluff is one of them. This great group is working to restore and preserve Oak savannah habitat along the bluff to the West of the residential part of Overlook neighborhood. It’s a historically rich habitat that is still home to many bird, wildlife and plant species. Be part of the project by coming out on Saturday, March 1st to help plant native seed, rootstock and maintain the plots that have been planted so far. The efforts are part of a bigger goal to ensure permanent protection for this green space that serves as a natural buffer between the rail yards, industrial area and our homes.
“Our vision is to preserve the last remaining undeveloped parcel of land on the bluff with its majestic, solitary, heritage Oak, to restore native species along the east slope of the Willamette, and to create a series of trails that connect green space from Overlook to St. Johns. We want to protect what remains of a corridor of Oregon white oak savannahs and Pacific madronas that once extended from Vancouver B.C. to California.” – from Friends of Overlook Bluff’s mission statement
As spring slowly creeps into our yards, our thoughts turn to planting gardens, weeding and feeding our soil and plants. Make sure your yard is safe for people, pets and wildlife by avoiding pesticide use. Join over 300 Overlook residents in quitting or reducing garden chemicals by taking Metro’s Healthy Lawn and Garden Pledge at www.sustainableoverlook.org and receive a free ladybug yard sign!
Interesting in helping advance sustainability issues in our neighborhood? Join the 2014 planning session this Wednesday 1/29 at the Lucky Lab on N. Killingsworth, 7-9pm. We’ll be discussing upcoming Sustainable Overlook events starting with the 3rd annual Garden Tour. We welcome new faces and your ideas!
The annual Overlook Earth Day event will be held Saturday, April 26 at Bethel Lutheran church on N. Denver Ave. This year the event will focus on recycling documents. A shredding truck will be available for neighbors to bring up to 2 bags or boxes of documents to recycle. Participants will receive a free tomato plant. Sponsored by the Overlook Neighborhood Association.
Check out our neighbors in Mississippi and Arbor Lodge neighborhoods for more recycling and Earth Day clean-ups.
