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Event date: Apr 24, 2012
Event location: Mr. Green Beans @ Portland Homestead Supply Co., 8012 SE 13th Ave.
Learn how to roast your own coffee! Using appliances that you may already have, and techniques that are easy to learn. We will show you just how easy it really is to roast your own coffee. $25 Class fees include a pound of raw coffee to take home and roast yourself. Please note this class will be held at Portland Homestead Supply Co. Register for this class. more...
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 5, 2012
Event location: SMILE Station, 8210 SE 13th Ave.
Want to create a thriving, low maintenance garden that is free from chemicals? This is the class for you! Find out how to design a landscape that reduces water use, decreases stormwater runoff and minimizes pollution while saving you time, money and energy. You’ll learn about native plant gardening & design, visit a nearby naturescaped garden, and receive a comprehensive workbook and a native plant to help you get started. more...
![Adding Bitters to Your Home Cocktail Bar [Recipes]](/images/posts/1/10/10460_t.jpg)
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: Dec 3, 2011
Event location: Sellwood and Westmoreland businesses
On December 3 the Sellwood-Westmoreland neighborhoods will host the 5th annual Decemberville event. This winter event kicks off the holiday season offering FAMILY PORTRAITS WITH SANTA, HOLIDAY WREATHS, SNOWFLAKES IN SELLWOOD, a FREE MATINEE at the Moreland Theater AND super sales & discounts. 11AM FREE MOVIE! Saturday, December 3rd 11AM-12:30PM Free matinee to the community at the Moreland Theater located at 6712 SE Milwaukie more...
![Grog: So Good It's Scary [Recipe]](/images/posts/1/10/10241_t.jpg)
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...
![DIY Sherry Cocktails [Recipes]](/images/posts/1/10/10200_t.jpg)
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...
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...
Event date: Sep 17, 2011
Event location: Tilde, 7919 SE 13th Avenue
Join the anniversary celebration from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with 20% off almost* everything in the shop!! (*excluding the work of our featured visual artist). We’ll be serving Blue Kangaroo coffee in the morning & after 5 p.m. join us for us for a glass of wine from The Portland Bottle Shop. Purchases over $20 receive a special, handmade giveaway from Molly Muriel. So, stop by and enjoy a sale, treats, a gift, and great company! more...
