Difference between revisions of "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
• 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

• 7:11 - 7:31
  • Yveline

• • • Talked about projects considered in the past but have not yet fulfilled, at the LGL
    • 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.

• • • • 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

• • • 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
• time capsules

• • • • A workshop
      • Covered porch areas
      • Incorporating gray water

• • • • 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

• 7:42 - 7:52
  • Yveline
    • Answered participants questions
    • Schedule the next meeting meeting
      • January 07, 2008
• 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.

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