Fridays, October 6, 13, 20, 27, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Luscher Farms  135 Rosemont DR. West Linn
Phone Contact: (503) 779-4631
This year, Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center (OEC) at Luscher Farm hosts OPEN FARM FRIDAYS. Every Friday, from 10am-5pm we will be working in our demonstration gardens at Luscher Farm; planting, harvesting, preparing beds, mulching, learning, and more. Come out for any duration (1-8 Hours) and help us grow! (BTW, we actually really need/want you)
Meet really cool people, learn about organic gardening and agroecology, and take familiar and unfamiliar produce home with you... See www.tilth.org for directions and more information. THANKS, Andy Parker, Head Gardener andyp@tilth.org
Oregon Tilth, Inc. (503) 378-0690
Organic Education Center (OEC) (503) 638-0735
470 Lancaster Dr. NE  Salem, OR 97301
Oregon Tilth is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to promoting and supporting biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture. The Oregon Tilth Organic Education Center (OEC) is a collaborative project with the City of Lake Oswego, located at the city's historic Luscher Farm. The landscape and restored farm complex include a classroom, organic demonstration garden, historic orchard, children's garden, community garden, and 10-acre CSA project. The OEC offers on-going workshops, classes, internships, tours, special events and diverse volunteer opportunities related to ecological agriculture.

Saturdays, October 7, 14, 21, 28, 8:00am - 1:00pm
Hollywood Farmers Market
NE Hancock Ave, 44th and 45th
Come celebrate the Hollywood Farmers Market in its tenth year of bringing fresh food from local farmers, live music, and family fun to the Hollywood neighborhood. No need to bring cash, a debit and food stamp machine service is now available. To get involved in volunteering please call or email Caryn Servis (503) 803-7279.
volunteers@hollywoodfarmersmarket.org
http://www.hollywoodfarmersmarket.org

Sunday, October 8, 9:15am
Daily Grind (SE Hawthorne & 40th)
Sponsor: Bark (503) 331-0374
Each month Bark (www.bark-out.org) visits a different planned logging project on Mt. Hood National Forest. There are dozens of these planned "timber sales" on the publicly owned forests surrounding Mt. Hood!
Join Bark on these hikes to beautiful and endangered areas of Mt. Hood National Forest. Experience the magic of the woods, learn

about US Forest Service plans for the area, and find out what you can do to preserve this special place.
Carpools leave The Daily Grind promptly at 9:30am. Please arrive by 9:15 so we can check you in, arrange rides and give a brief overview of the day's plans.
Bring food, water, hat, rain gear, sturdy hiking boots, and be prepared to hike off trail. See www.bark-out.org, email info__at__bark-out.org or call (503) 331-0374 for more information.

Sunday, October 8, 8:30am
Oaks Amusement Park, 7100 Oaks Park Way
Contact: Teri Ruch, (503) 282-8846 x17 terir@friendsoftrees.org
Please join Friends of Trees for our first Fun Run for Restoration, a 5-mile run/3.5-mile walk. Sign-in is at 8:30am, the run starts at 9am, and the walk starts at 9:30am. All ages are welcome. The Fun Run for Restoration is sponsored by the Nike Factory Store.
Friends of Trees has provided a user-friendly online registration form at www.friendsoftrees.org. The cost is $25 for each adult, $18 for youth ages seven to 14, $50 per family, and free for kids under seven. Registration fees go up $5 after Oct. 2. The first 500 to register will receive free Fun Run T-shirts. All participants will receive a Nike gymsack.
Fun Run participants are encouraged to bring their old athletic shoes for Nike's Reuse-A-Shoe program. Nike will contribute $2 per pair to Friends of Trees.
Funds raised from the Fun Run will support Friends of Trees' Neighborhood Trees and Natural Area Restoration planting programs. Last year Friends of Trees planted and cared for 16,000 trees and shrubs in the Portland-Vancouver metro area. Plantings have been scheduled for the 2006-07 planting season in more than 48 neighborhoods and at 18 natural area sites.
The first planting of Friends of Trees' 2006-07 planting season is at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge on Sat., Oct. 14, and the first neighborhood planting in Portland is in the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood on Nov. 11.
Friends of Trees brings people together in the Portland-Vancouver area to plant and care for city trees and urban natural areas. In June, Friends of Trees and the city of Portland received a national Award of Excellence for Community Trees at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and in August, Willamette Week gave Friends of Trees a "Best of Portland 2006" award. This October, Portland Monthly and Oregon Community Foundation will give Friends of Trees a Light A Fire Award for building community.
For more information about the Fun Run for Restoration, visit www.friendsoftrees.org.

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