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Portland Peak Oil
Welcome to the new website for Portland Peak Oil, a grassroots group of concerned local citizens, from different backgrounds, with different interests, who've separately become aware of the looming crisis caused by the peaking of world oil supplies. We’ve come together to try to:
- Develop individual and collective strategies to cope with this crisis and meeting weekly, check out our events calendar for more information.
- Create awareness in the Portland community about Peak Oil
- Influence policies of local government to help mitigate the crisis, and
- successfully petitioned the City of Portland to create the nation's first Peak Oil Taskforce.
- Please check out the full report from the City of Portland's Peak Oil Taskforce.
PPO meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 7 to 9pm in the St. Francis Dining Hall. 1182 SE Pine St. Portland, OR.
PPO Reading Circle Wed. March 7 - The Resilient Gardener
This reading from Carol Deppe's The Resilient Gardener will be Chapter 10, Squash and Pumpkins, and Chapter 11, Beans. Hope to see you in THE HAWTHORN ROOM at St. Francis Church March 7th from 7-9pm. We're getting close to the end of the book, so don't miss out!
***NOTE: The Hawthorne Room is up the main stairs to the double doors (the building to your right when you have your back to 12th), through the doors and down the hall to your left, to the end of the hall on the left side.***
Next month, April, is the last circle for this book! We will be discussing Chapter 12, Corn, and we'll have a special guest who grew crops according to Carol's book last year! She will share her experiences with us - and maybe something more! Keep on reading and planning your dream garden!
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PPO Reading Circle on The Resilient Gardener Feb 1st
Join us for a discussion of Chapters 8-9 of Carol Deppe's incredible book The Resilient Gardener! Her depth of knowledge and research has impressed and inspired us so far, and it appears that will continue! We will be covering Potatoes, and The Laying Flock. These chapters don't follow the standard for gardening books - for example, the chapter on The Laying Flock is about eggs as a crop, rather than plants! Her experiments in gardening for minimal inputs and maximum production and flavor are well-illustrated in these tantalizing chapters. They hold a lot of wisdom that we can put into practice in our own gardens. Everyone is welcome to come and learn. Also, for next month we be reading Chapter 10 on Squash and Pumpkins, and Chapter 11 on Beans - in case you want to read ahead! : ) Hope to see you there!
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PPO meeting Jan 4 - Reading Circle for The Resilient Gardener
Join us for a discussion of Chapters 5-7 of Carol Deppe's incredible book The Resilient Gardener! Her depth of knowledge and research has impressed and inspired us so far, and it appears that will continue! We will be covering Labor & Exercise, Water & Watering, and Soil & Fertility. These chapters don't follow the standard for gardening books - for example, a lot of the chapter on watering deals with how to avoid irrigation as much as possible! Her experiments in gardening with minimal inputs are well-illustrated in these three illuminating chapters. They hold a lot of wisdom that we can put into practice in our own gardens. Everyone is welcome to come and learn. Also, for next month we get to start the chapters on the 5 Crops You Need to Survive and Thrive - so catch up now! : ) Hope to see you there!
***PLEASE NOTE! We are meeting in a new room now! You will still enter through the same door of the same building (across the street from the Red & Black Cafe), but turn left in the hallway and follow the signs to our new meeting room. I don't know if it has a name - maybe we'll have to give it one!
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Reading circle: The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe #2
Subtitled "Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, Including the Five Crops You Need To Survive and Thrive - Potatoes, Corn, Beans, Squash, and Eggs" Carol Deppe's newest book goes right to the heart of our questions and concerns about subsistence gardening.
Her criteria for garden candidates is strict - they must be able to produce with a minimum of inputs (i.e. electricity, irrigation, fertilizer, etc.), in our climate AND in our weather, and be both nutritious and delicious. Additionally, she has done her research in such varied fields as climate change, how civilizations collapse, the history of agriculture, breeding specially adapted vegetable varieties, how to evaluate the land you have to grow on, and every stage of a plant's life from germination to storage and cooking of the harvest. She has studied special diets, nutrition, and other health concerns, and how to accomodate these factors in your garden planning. Since she gardens here in western Oregon, her plant variety suggestions can do well in our gardens too. She goes into great detail about the 5 main crops, even including her favorite recipes. This book is great for anyone who gardens, but also for anyone who eats! Everyone is welcome to join in our circle.
Location
Reading circle: The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe
Subtitled "Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, Including the Five Crops You Need To Survive and Thrive - Potatoes, Corn, Beans, Squash, and Eggs" Carol Deppe's newest book goes right to the heart of our questions and concerns about subsistence gardening.
Her criteria for garden candidates is strict - they must be able to produce with a minimum of inputs (i.e. electricity, irrigation, fertilizer, etc.), in our climate AND in our weather, and be both nutritious and delicious. Additionally, she has done her research in such varied fields as climate change, how civilizations collapse, the history of agriculture, breeding specially adapted vegetable varieties, how to evaluate the land you have to grow on, and every stage of a plant's life from germination to storage and cooking of the harvest. She has studied special diets, nutrition, and other health concerns, and how to accomodate these factors in your garden planning. Since she gardens here in western Oregon, her plant variety suggestions can do well in our gardens too. She goes into great detail about the 5 main crops, even including her favorite recipes. This book is great for anyone who gardens, but also for anyone who eats! Everyone is welcome to join in our circle.
