Community Discussion at the Library

Are you worried about money or food for you or your community?

You're invited to:
"Uncertain Future: A community discussion about our money, our neighborhoods, and our ability to feed ourselves"

Puyallup Public Library, 324 S Meridian,
*Free*
Thursday, Jan. 29 6:30-8:30pm
Childcare, ASL available, Se Hable Espanol

Randy Hynek, Sumner City Council
Bill Franklin, Puyallup Food Bank
Viki Sonntag, EcoPraxis: Healthy Community Economies
Carrie Little & Cheryl Ouellette, Local Farmers
Elders, speak about the depression & what they see now
You, All your ideas!

For more info, or to volunteer, call 370-9946 or email puyallup@riseup.net
To read the article written for this event, click here

Busy Fall Harvest

Thanks for all the help and fun times this fall! Here's some tantalizing pics of those who helped me out over at Goddess Farm.

pics from daffodil parade and earth day

YMCA Farm Open House

The YMCA Friends and Servants is hosting our annual Greenhouse/Farm Open HouseFriday April 25th and Saturday April 26th, from 10:00 am-5:00 pm. Support localhorticulture and Puyallup's youth by buying our beautiful spring flowers, hangingbaskets and deck planters. This is a wonderful opportunity to take a tour of theFarm and to learn about our youth programing. For information please call253-840-8110. The Farm address is: 6613 114th Ave Ct E, Puyallup

Daff Parade and Earth Day events

Meeting notes from 3/30. In attendance: Amanda, B, and Kelda. Ate split
pea soup and talked a lot about kids, social justice, art, and projects.
Low numbers at meetings sure doesn't mean any less enthusiasm!

We missed a lot of you and hope to see your happy faces at the event below!

April 12 Daffodil Parade. Rendezvous at Amanda's house (behind the
downtown safeway) about 11-ish. B and wait staff at the Ram are rescuing
cups from the landfill and previous to 12th we'll be filling them with
soil and plants. On the 12th we'll ready the plants, the little red
wagons, and the kids to go forth and sell their wares for some cheap
donation price. Money will go to art supplies/ future projects, etc. The
Daffodil Parade starts at 12:45 but there's crowds of people downtown all
day.

Earth Day ideas:

1)Storm the Ram for a few hours and in some organized fashion separate out
all the recyclables, compostables, everything that they are now currently
throwing in the Garbage (even cardboard!!)
This will be a demo to show B's art club kids how to sort and reuse, and a
demo to show the Ram management how much is being thrown out. B's manager
has been open to the demo. We need more adults to help do this, and we
should decide on a time that works well. If not Earth Day, Tuesday, then
perhaps the Sunday Brunch before?

2)Sidewalk Chalk downtown with thank yous. Thank yous for people riding
the sounder, thank yous for the organic cafe, for busstops, whatever. It
will be good for downtown businesses and lighten everyone's day. Needed:
more folks to be involved and think of a good time around earth day to
meet up and do this.

Also, we are now On the Sustainability Map!
http://scallops.sustainableballard.org/
Notice that the 'inland' groups are listed below as they're not
technically on the Puget Sound. The 'SCALLOPS' group will be having a
forum the evening of the 12th at the Seattle Greenfest. We're invited to
attend. (So we'll have to decide between post-daffodil bbq or going to
seattle).

Sustainabilty at Celtic Faire

  Downtown Puyallup, March 15, 2-5 pm.  
Among the minstrels and vendors and other celtic fun there will
 be a roomful of activities focused on sustainability. This is a
 family event, so will have lots of kids activities, included but not
limited to:
*seed-on-a-stick
*seed balls
*art from found objects/recycled art-making

And for the adults:
*puyallup 'green map' creation (post-its on big map to
show cool places to shop and do sustainability-type
things in puyallup)
*sustainability books to browse through
*computers set to 'calculate your carbon footprint'
website
*scrolling slideshow of awesome pics (people building
cobb ovens,
installing gardens, etc.)
*'downtown puyallup sustainable sites' bike tours if
enough people show up who want a tour

Kid's activities will be hosted at the Youth Investment
Center, 115 2nd St SW. Adult activities will be at the City Council Chambers. 

December Meeting

Compiled by Kathleen:

Here is a summary of some of the ideas that were talked about on Saturday
December 1st at the Organic Comfort Food Cafe

Idea # 1:
Bulletin Board in Downtown- a space for the exchange of information
Possibly made of cob (dirt, sand, clay straw super substance)

Idea#2:
eventually rent space downtown to provide a sustainability resource for
Puyallup

Idea #3:  Earth Day Celebration in Pioneer Park
Educational Booths
Kids Activities
Speaker
Workshops
Music Act
Work Parties
on the same day as the farmers market

Steps to make this happen:

Contact Parks Department to ask permission
Contact Pierce College to see if Environmental or Outreach Coordinators want
to cooperate
Different People take responsibility for putting on a booth/activities
Get the word out: flyers downtown, send home flyers with elementary school
kids (get kids there and parents will follow), contact church communities

Possible activities(some of these not actually discussed on Saturday just
some ideas I have seen done other places):
rain barrel making workshop
recycled junk art projects for kids
easy things the average person can do booth
cob making for kids
clothing exchange
compost workshop
story time
solar power demonstration
green building booth
bicycle bucket making

Idea #4
Sustainable healthy food distribution for the homeless