Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information, contact
Metro Recycling Information
503-234-3000
sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
www.oregonmetro.gov/
Metro | People places. Open spaces
Who: Speakers: Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web, Inc. (owner/researcher)
When: Thursday, May 15, 2008
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: Metro Regional Center, 600 NE Grand Ave, Portland 97232
Topic: Renewing your soil's health. An incredible diversity of life in the soil makes healthy, productive plants possible. Dr. Ingham and her company helped pioneer and continue to inspire a movement of using aerated compost tea and the full food web in the soil to produce dramatically positive results. Learn how and where to test your soil and compost for biological activity and where to find biologically active compost and compost tea.
