Learning Gardens Laboratory/Community Meeting
Everyone is welcome and invited to this community meeting to learn more about the Learning Gardens and help shape its future!
- Discuss the future of your garden with your neighbors and volunteers
- Enjoy light refreshments
- Bring the whole family
- Enter to win a door prize
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 @ 6:45pm at the Learning Gardens
Learning Gardens Community Meeting Timeline
- 6:45 - 6:55
- Welcome statement from Ashley
- Self-introduction of participants
- Welcome statement from Ashley
- 6:56 - 7:10
- Yveline
- Introduced the Garden and its history
- Introduced the concepts of placemaking
- Discussed the Garden's affliations with Portland Public Schools and Portland State University
- Yveline
- 7:11 - 7:31
- Yveline
- Asset mapping and Placemaking as tools for empowerment
- Community Building- importance on process not end result.
- Democratic decision making
- Image Crafting- more impact occurs with more participation
- Social capital- What skills are shared in the community.
- Talked about projects considered in the past but have not yet fulfilled, at the LGL
- Outdoor classroom
- started with kitchen idea
- The LGL ideal "food chain"- from farm, to food, to kitchen
- maps of human traffic flow within the garden
- social ecology- "when we care about ourselves, we care about the earth"
- Getting Started
- Formulating a core team
- communication
- Ligistics and placement
- Pathway through garden
- nodes-where social friction happens
- The Watershed
- kiosks and benches
- Welcome center
- bulletin board- poetry and creative input
- Forest garden
- Permaculture garden
- time capsules
- A workshop
- Covered porch areas
- Incorporating gray water
- Future Plans with Outdoor Classroom
- adjecent outdoor kitchen
- Kitchens are "Where the magic happens."
- "Cob" Construction
- Cob- building material made out of clay, sand, and straw
- importance of infusing natural building techniques
- Kitchens are "Where the magic happens."
- Asset mapping and Placemaking as tools for empowerment
- Yveline
- 7:31 - 7:41
- Yveline
- Outdoor classroom brainstorming
- making mock tributary
- trout-educational piece
- Timelines
- maybe plan to build during the Village Building Convergence (5/23/08-6/1/08)
- Learning Gardens closed 12/7/07-1/7/08
- 2nd meeting on first week of January
- Fundraising/financing
- paying builders
- Search for builder/designer/carpenter
- design for outdoor classroom
- technological help- listserv, website, emails
- City Permit
- Advised of what roles are available for volunteers
- asset mapping
- "hidden treasures" within Brentwood/Darlington community
- Outdoor classroom brainstorming
- Yveline
- 7:42 - 7:52
- Yveline
- Answered participants questions
- Schedule the next meeting meeting
- January 07, 2008
- Yveline
- 7:53 - 8:00
- Closing and final thoughts from participants
- Door prize draw by Amani
- 8:00 - 8:10
- Clean up and dismiss
Questions?
- Contact Karen at
- What is the Learning Gardens? See Learning Gardens Laboratory.
> Learning Gardens Laboratory/Community Meeting Planning
> Learning Gardens Laboratory/Community Meeting Report
