Food Not Lawns

Heather C. Flores; Foreword by Toby Hemenway

Events

Visit www.foodnotlawns.com for up-to-date information on Heather Flores' speaking and teaching schedule.

Past Events

Portland City Repair, Portland, OR

October 13, 2006 7:00 p.m.
Portland City Repair
22nd and SE Division
Portland, OR
503-425-9706

Permaculturist Heather Coburn will be presenting a slide show, facilitating hands-on activities, and talking about her new book Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community.

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Portland

October 14, 2006 Time TBA
Signing and Presentation

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon

Book Release Party, Portland, OR

October 14, 2006

St. John's Books 7:00 p.m.
Signing and Presentation
8622 N Lombard St
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 283-0032

Proper Eats Cafe, 9:00 p.m.
Vaudeville show with Underscore Orkestra
8638 N. Lombard Ave.
Portland, Or. 97203
(503) 445-2007

Food Not Lawns Annual Seed Swap, Eugene, OR

October 15, 2006

Maitreya Ecovillage
882 Almaden Street
Eugene, OR 97402

Seed swap, presentation, book sale/signing and performance with Mood Area 52 and the Underscore Orkestra.

Lyon Books, Chico, CA

October 23, 2006 2:00 p.m.
Book Reading and Signing
Lyon Books
121 W 5th Street
Chico, CA 95928
530-891-3338

Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

October 25, 206
Workshop at Campus Center for Appropriate Technology
Call 707-826-3551 to register

Book Release Party, Arcata, CA

October 27, 2006 8:00 p.m.
Jambalaya
915 H St
Arcata, CA 95521
707-822-4766

Book release party with Absynth Quintet and the Underscore Orkestra

Food Not Lawns Benefit, Eugene, OR

November 8, 2006 9:00 p.m.
Sam Bonds
407 Blair Blvd.
Eugene, OR 97402
541-431-6603

Food Not Lawns Benefit show with Fishtank Ensemble and the Underscore Orkestra

Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

November 13, 2006 7:30 p.m.
Reading and Book Signing
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-282-9246

University of California, Berkeley

November 15, 2006
UC Berkeley Women's Lecture Series
Details TBA

Oregon Tilth Annual Meeting, Salem OR

November 18, 2006 2:00 p.m.
Workshop on urban agriculture with Andy Parker
Conference web site

Tryon Life Community Farm, Portland, OR

November 20, 2006 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Community Seed Swap
Tryon Life Community Farm

First Alternative Food Cooperative, Corvallis, OR

January 11, 2007 7:00 pm
Presentation and Book Signing
First Alternative Food Co-op
1007 SE 3rd Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
541-753-3115

Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show, Eugene, OR

January 27, 2007
Workshop/Presentation
Lane Events Center
(541)-484-9247
For more information, go to www.eugenehomeshow.com

Portland, OR mini-tour, April 7-9, 2007

SATURDAY, April 7, 10 am
Portland Farmer’s Market Opening Celebration
Getting Free Plants: Guerrilla Plant Propagation and other ways to revegetate your neighborhood.

7 pm, St. John’s Books
8622 N. Lombard St
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 283-0032
Food Not Lawns; Grassroots Gardening Toward a Proactive Ecology
In this colorful, dynamic, and interactive slideshow Heather will demonstrate a wide variety of projects and share over a decade of hands-on experience in ecological gardening, permaculture design, and community organizing.
Free/donations accepted.

SUNDAY, April 8, Noon
Proper Eats
8638 N. Lombard
(503) 445-2007
Community Seed Swap
Heather will be there with her mobile seed library.

2 pm, St. John’s Books
8622 N. Lombard St
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 283-0032
Urban Paradise Gardening: How to Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Food Forest.
Learn the ways and means of turning any urban yard into a food producing paradise, including: Urban land access, microclimates, site assessment, maximizing small spaces, soil and compost building, water-wise gardening, plant stacking, seed saving, finding free resources, and distributing the surplus.
Intensive workshop, $25

MONDAY, April 9, 7 pm
Portland State University, Room TBA
Building Sustainable Community through Food Not Lawns
While the Saturday slideshow will focus on project examples and general visions of an edible urban paradise, this presentation will emphasize the logistics of organizing events, cultivating functional working groups, and creating and directing the flow of surplus plants, seeds, and other resources. We will focus on whole system design and project planning, but will not cover gardening technique in any detail. If you need a gardening workshop, please attend the one at St. John’s Books on Sunday.
Slides, Discussion, and Interactive Games. Free.