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Events & Classes
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Upcoming Events & Classes
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Food Power
We all want healthy, tasty food at reasonable prices, but how do we find
it in the maze of "organic" v "natural", "recalled" v "FDA approved",
"fast" v "slow", "processed" v "local", "box store v CSA"? Complex
labels omit vital information. Commercials entice us with foods doctors
forbid us to eat. "Health food" seems expensive; "fast food" appears
cheap. "Food Safety" is a legal issue. Why can't we just eat? Why is
food political and complicated? What can we do about it? This class
takes a broad view of our most important consumer item, encouraging
discussion and research through articles and films
Time: April 7, 2012 from 10am to 4pm
Location: Titanic Lifeboat Academy, Astoria, OR
Call 503-325-6886 to register
Cottage Industries
Earn income doing what you enjoy, setting your own hours and goals, and serving your community! How? Cottage Industries, the age-old answer to economic independence and local community resilience, are making a strong comeback in the 21st
Century. Fashioning new clothes out of used clothes, setting up
backyard gardens, making soap, building chicken "tractors", crafting
leather – the possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Start
small with minimal investment and learn how to grow your home-based
business with a local focus. Instructor Caren Black was a consultant for
small business startups and financial troubleshooting for the Central
Coast Small Business Development Center and taught small business taxes
for Cabrillo College.
Time: April 2, 2012 from 6pm to 8:30pm
Location: Titanic Lifeboat Academy, Astoria, OR
Call 503-325-6886 to register
Gifts That Make a Difference
Whether shopping for Christmas or Kwanza, Solstice or Chanukah, more people in our
region
are approaching this holiday season with a new determination to avoid
mind-numbing malls and items made thousands of miles from home in favor
of
giving meaningful gifts that support local people.
Don't miss this once-yearly
gathering of the groups who bring education, entertainment, arts,
culture,
awareness, radio, emergency preparedness, social advocacy,
environmental
preservation and local food to our entire region and to those who visit
us.
Choose gifts that give twice – once
to friends and family and again directly to our communities. A diversity of groups offers a wide variety
of holiday shopping choices from concert tickets to
classes to locally
made items, dance scholarships,
Ham radio license classes,
concert tickets,
CDs,
fresh local
foods, workshops,
gift certificates, time banking, and more.
Backyard Chickens Workshop
(To be announced)
Composting Workshop
(To be announced)
Draft Horse Workshop
(To be announced)
Scything and Hand-Baling Workshop
(To be announced)
Seed Exchange
(To be announced)
Solar Water Heating Workshop
(To be announced)
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Past Events
The Lifeboat Conference: Doing Something About Peak Oil
Titanic Lifeboat Academy, June 17-19, 2005 |
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