diy—Hollywood, Northeast (NE) Portland...

In a shift away from the country’s once hyper-consumptive ways, many Portlanders have been discovering how to participate in a local, and more resourceful, sharing economy. Based on models of collaborative consumption, in which owning becomes less necessary, our innovative and community-minded citizenry has expanded an economy centered around bartering, borrowing and sharing. Portland has, in many ways, led the charge in what we more...

Event date: May 6, 2012

Event location: Hollywood Library, 4040 NE Tillamook

Contain that rain! A rain garden is a sunken garden bed that captures stormwater and allows it to soak back into the ground naturally, all while adding beauty to your yard! Part of a larger effort to restore overloaded urban streams, this workshop provides step-by-step details on how to plan, design and build your own rain garden. Join your neighbors and find out how rain gardens can benefit the fish, wildlife, and people that are more...

Your at-home cocktails gardens are resting prettily in the windowsill. There are no major holidays for which to prepare grog. And, your infusions are happily marinating on the shelves. So, what’s the next step in your home mixology program? Let’s try homemade bitters. With your new bitters brewed, you’ll be able to round out some of your homemade cocktails, make some much-loved, classic cocktails, and jazz up your more...

Event date: Apr 22, 2012

Event location: Hollywood Library, 4040 NE Tillamook

This advanced session gives participants experience with the steps involved in preparing a landscape plan by using the naturescaping concepts and methods covered in the Naturescaping Basics workshop. Through hands-on exercises you will learn how to map and measure your property, assess your garden style and needs, do some garden dreaming, and work on a group design scenario. Please note: Participants must have attended the Basic more...

Event date: Nov 12, 2011

Event location: Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave

Learn how gardening with native plants can save you time, money & energy! Join us from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, 11/12 at the Hollywood Senior Center for a FREE Naturescaping Basics Workshop! Naturescaping is the practice of designing a landscape that reduces water use, decreases stormwater runoff and pollution while saving you time, money and energy. Participants learn about native plant gardening & design, visit a nearby more...

Let’s imagine that it’s already Halloween, you have your patio lights up and a few carved gourds on the porch, and the important question lingering in the fall air is: what on earth are you going to be serving to your thirsty, be-costumed guests? Grog, fellow drinkers. Go with grog. Because there is no better complement to a night dripping with zombie anythings and sexy everythings than a drink whose last true heyday was more...

We know you haven’t had enough of old-school drinks and cocktails yet, so here’s the next in line we’d suggest for your go-to winter list: sherry. That’s right. Sherry. There’s a dry, complex quality to this Spanish wine that makes a lovely pair with the crisp (erm, soggy) autumn breeze starting to blow around Portland. It’s a great drink to offer guests arriving at your dinner party or to sip on more...

Event date: Oct 8, 2011

Event location: Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave

Learn how to build your own rain garden! A rain garden is a sunken garden bed designed to capture stormwater and allow it to soak back into the ground naturally. Part of a larger effort to bring healthy watershed function back to urban neighborhoods, this workshop provides step-by-step details on how to plan, design and build your own rain garden! Includes field trip to a nearby rain garden. Join your neighbors and register now while more...

When Kristl Bridge opened Portland Homestead Supply Co. in Sellwood in June, a visitor asked her why anyone would take tasks such as canning, pickling, and soap-making into their own hands when it’s often easier to pay someone else to do the work. “It was our first day open, so my first response to it ... was to sort of panic,” Bridge recalls. “I thought, ‘Wow maybe nobody will [do this], and we’ll more...

Four weeks of summer in and it’s nearly autumn again, at least according to the calendar. In other words, this is the perfect time to start infusing everything from olive oil to brandy! Because in four weeks when you are cold again, and have spent all of your money on patio beers in the sunshine, life will be better when you look around and see all kinds of home infusions that have turned your little counter bar and your kitchen more...