The North Portland Neighborhood Network

Spend a special evening with the gals from Portland Culinary Workshop and support the St. Johns Farmers Market! Learn to use ingredients from our vendors at the Market to create an amazing seasonal meal. After the class, feast on your delicious creations in support of the Market!

Friday, June 22nd from 6:00 - 9:00 PM.
Portland Culinary Workshop
807 N. Russell St.
Cost: $65 (all proceeds will go towards sponsoring the Market and its activities!)
Register at: https://www.portlandsculinaryworkshop.com/classes/?regevent_action=register&event_id=553


Classes | Hands on cooking classes in Portland, Oregon | Portland's Culinary Workshop
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It's late at night and you stumble to the kitchen for a quick snack. Out comes the Top Ramen packet...STOP!! Fresh Ramen will forever turn you away from grabbing another .$15 packet of flavorless noodles. This class will walk you through the process of making the noodles from scratch, and teach you...

Who's interested in being our volunteer Marketing Chair for the rest of the year? We want to promote our wonderful market like never before to all of North Portland. We are looking for someone with experience who is organized, creative, resourceful (we are a non-profit after all) and excited about the Farmers Market! Send us a message, post here or get in touch with Nicole Oliver at njoliver21 at gmail dot com.

Thank you to New Seasons Market! We just got the word they are awarding us with a $2500 grant to help fund our New Partnerships program for the 2012 season!

This program helps get market vouchers into the residents in our neighborhood who need it most.

Such awesome news!

Come see us at the St. Johns Winter Social, Saturday from 5p-8p at the St. Johns Community Center. There will be food, prizes and entertainment. Give our volunteering board members a whoop! whoop! and a high 5 for staffing the booth!

Hi all! Important community event this Thursday at the St. johns Community Center. Help guide the future of your community!

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St Johns Review Newspaper
ST JOHNS MAIN STREET INVITES YOU TO A PUBLIC PRESENTATION BY THE VISITING MAIN STREET RESOURCE TEAM The St Johns Main Street Coalition is holding a Public Presentation on January 26, 2012 from 7:00pm until 8:45pm at the St Johns Community Center located at 8427 N. Central Avenue. This Presentation is a follow-up to a weeklong Resource Team Visit by the National Main Street Center provided by the Portland Main Street Program. The Resource Team members include Portland Main Street program staff and consultants chosen specifically for the community’s needs. The Resource Team has two jobs. The team must first make a candid assessment of the opportunities and issues that affect the St Johns neighborhood district program. This will involve many types of focus group meetings with community members. Second the Resource Team will work collaboratively and independently to develop specific and general recommendations for action in a written report. This report will help to develop at least a 12 to 24 month implementation strategy that will provide the neighborhood commercial district leaders with a sharply focused program. The Resource Team has several areas of purpose and focus of study. To provide advice on how the St Johns Main Street can best accomplish its work plans and goals and provide recommendation for future work plans. To promote local visibility and publicity for St Johns Main Street and to the city of Portland. Devise solutions for specific design, organization, promotion, and economic restructuring issues as well as sustainability issues across the four points. To provide additional information to volunteers and leaders of the St Johns Main Street Program. To promote the importance of a comprehensive, incremental revitalization process as advocated through the National Main Street Four-Point Approach. The Public Presentation is a chance for the community to meet the Resource Team and ask questions and give opinions. Some topics for consideration might include what is the current image of downtown St Johns? How do you see St Johns and what would you like to see the downtown become? What does it mean for St Johns to be successful? What should the Main Street Program accomplish? Please make plans to attend this important Public Presentation as it is about the future of your community.

Come by the Fix It Fair at Rosa Parks Elementary this Saturday between 8:30 and 2:00 PM. Learn more about the St. John's Farmers Market and what you can look forward to in the upcoming 2012 season! http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=41892


Fix-It Fairs
www.portlandonline.com
Neighborhood events held November-March offer workshops and exhibits on energy efficiency, healthy homes, yard care, green building and more

Awesome food classes available for sign-up now. Cheesmaking, Food Preservation, Raising Goats, Farming and so much more. I've heard these sell out fast.


Urban Growth Bounty
www.portlandonline.com
Register for 2011 sustainable food courses.

Tell Oregon Live about your favorite Farmers Market finds for an upcoming story!


FOODday's annual Things We Love issue
www.oregonlive.com
Our fourth annual list of our favorite food places, gadgets, books, and things to eat and drink.

Want to be a vendor at the St. Johns Farmers Market in 2012? Application now available online.

We're ridiculously excited..... How 'bout you?


Application | St. Johns Farmers Market
www.sjfarmersmarket.com
Special announcement for produce vendors: In response to market shopper feedback, SJFM has set a goal of providing a greater variety and abundance of produce

Maximize the life of your veggies & prevent food waste.


Food Choices: Keep it Fresh - How to Store Food Properly
www.portlandonline.com
Tips to help maximize the life of your vegetables and prevent food waste

Great Board meeting last night. Lively debate about what fruit or veggie to put on the 2012 poster! Also covered our parade and bizarre participation, plans for a new t-shirt design, fundraisers and joining in the St. Johns Winter Social.
Woo Hoo .... 2012 market here we come!

St. Helens FEAST event! Our vey own Grey Horton from Morgan's Landing Farm will be speaking. The public is welcome to attend.


F.E.A.S.T
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Come join us January 14th for a FEAST at the Saint Helens Senior Center. This event will bring people from all over Columbia County to talk about the food resources that are available and how we can best use them. We will also explore ways we can become more secure and sustainable in our food networ...

Board Meeting - Thursday the 5th - 7p-9p at the BES Water Lab.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/05/the-farmers-market-myth/238661/



The Farmers' Market Myth
www.theatlantic.com
Most people think farmers' markets are more expensive than supermarkets—but studies don't always support that conclusion. In fact, they're often cheaper.

We love Paobread!


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Paobread
Want to win some Pãobread? Share your memories of 2011 with us! 2011 has been an eventful year for us, with ample blessings in business and personal life, memorable world events, and a lot of important lessons learned. We want to thank you all for your support of our small business; because of you I get to do the job I love every day, and get to share this product with the public! To show our appreciation, we will be giving away three bags of Pãobread! TO ENTER DRAWING: Post on our wall what you will remember most about 2011. We will draw a name on January 7th. If you live in Portland we will deliver to you, if you're outside of Portland, no worries, we'll ship it! I can't wait to see what you all write!

Great gift idea!


Food Works CSA
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Join the Food Works 2012 CSA! Our CSA is designed for folks who want to support the Food Works program as well as receive great farm fresh produce! For 15 weeks, from mid June through mid October...

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Paobread
Christmas party TONIGHT 7:00 at Magnolia's Corner wine bar. Come try some Paobread, Oregon wines, and even mead. White elephant gift exchange ($15 budget), karaoke, and more! Hope to see you there.

Who wants to be our secretary for 2012? Would be best to have your own laptop and if you need to come to most Board Meetings - Thursday evenings, once a month until we get close to market season, then it's twice a month.

We're a pretty fun group of people that are super passionate about good food and our wonderful community. Message us on Facebook!

Fun in St. Johns tonight. Viewing from Catherdral Park around 6:30pm.

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St Johns
www.christmasships.org
Parade route from RiverPlace Marina to St Johns

Holiday Partynhosted by one of our vendors. Open to all!


xmasparty
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