Kitchen Tool Library Opening Soon

Calling all food lovers! SE Portland residents are forming a kitchen tool lending library, Kitchen Share SE.

On Wednesday February 8th, from 6-8 pm, come to an Eat and Greet at Pyro Pizza and Potato Champion food carts, located at 12th and Hawthorne. The food carts will donate 20 percent of the proceeds from your dinner to help open Kitchen Share SE.

Going beyond the neighborly cup of sugar, Kitchen Share SE will be a place where community members can borrow tools and share in the joy of processing, preserving, and serving food. We hope to offer dehydrators, cider presses, canning equipment, ice-cream makers, food processors, bread makers, and more. We plan to grow into a community supported kitchen where we can share our culinary skills, nourish our bodies with healthy local food, and collaborate on projects.

This is a community directed initiative and we would love for you to share your input and get involved!  Join us for our next planning meeting, on Sunday February 5th at 6:30pm, at the People’s Food Co-op.

To learn more, contact Kitchen Share SE at kitchensharese@gmail.com, or 503-208-4706, and visit kitchenshare.org.

New tools!

Over the next few weeks I'll be posting some of the new tools we've purchased recently thanks to your very welcome donations and (ambivalence shows here) overdue fees.

From these sources of cash we pay our rent, pay for our website hosting, pay for supplies, and if any is left, we buy tools that you've told us you need!

These first two tools that have proven extremely popular.

Hitachi 10" compound Mitre Saw:

Greenworks 1700 PSI 1.4 GPM Electric Pressure Washer:

Thank you so much for your generous donations!  They really do make a difference.

Meeting: The future of our Tool Library - part 2

Come all friends of the Southeast Portland Tool Library (SEPTL) to a general meeting in which we will be discussing the future of the SEPTL.

The first meeting on this topic, in December, was unproductive as so few were able to attend with the holiday season approaching.  This is an enormously important topic for us to discuss with all those have an interest in the future of the Tool Library, so we are hoping you will help us by coming on this new date.

We need volunteers and we need money to help maintain and repair SEPTL tools.  Ideas that have been proposed are charging a small sliding scale membership fee 10 to 20 dollars; creating a Co-op out of the SEPTL, which again would result in some sort of membership fee; creating a committee to search and help create and host grant writing efforts, fund raisers and the like.

Come all with your ideas.  We will be in the Grace Room at St. David's unless we have to move to a location where we have more space.

When: Thurs, January 12, 2012
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Where: St. David's Episcopal Church, 2800 SE Harrison Ave

We closed early due to a lack of volunteers

We closed early last week due to a lack of volunteers. A hard truth.

It was the first time we've actually had to close our doors, but we've come close plenty of other times.

We need more of our members to become volunteers.  Simple as that.

Please, right now, offer to become a volunteer.  Our Tool Library is a community resource run entirely by people like you, and we are asking for your help.  Thanks.

Meeting: The future of our Tool Library

Come all friends of the Southeast Portland Tool Library (SEPTL) to a general meeting in which we will be discussing the future of the SEPTL.

We need volunteers and we need money to help maintain and repair SEPTL tools.  Ideas that have been proposed are charging a small sliding scale membership fee 10 to 20 dollars; creating a Co-op out of the SEPTL, which again would result in some sort of membership fee; creating a committee to search and help create and host grant writing efforts, fund raisers and the like.

Come all with your ideas.  We will be in the Grace Room at St. David's unless we have to move to a location where we have more space.

When: Thurs, Dec 8, 2011
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Where: St. David's Episcopal Church, 2800 SE Harrison Ave

Coffee + Growing Food: 11 am Sun, Oct 30

Coffee + Growing Food:

Join representatives from the Food Bank, Food Not Bombs, and others for a conversation about food security and growing food in our neighborhood to help feed people who are hungry.

At St. David of Wales Parish Hall, 2800 SE Harrison Street.

11 am Sun, Oct 30. Free.

RAIN GARDENS 101 WORKSHOP

Rain gardens are a great way to add beautiful landscaping to your yard and protect overloaded urban sewers and streams at the same time. Join us at this free workshop to learn how to build a rain garden on your property to keep our streams clean and healthy!

DATE: Sunday, November 6
TIME: 1:00-5:00pm
WHERE: St. David’s Episcopal Church, 2800 SE Harrison St
         
Hosted in Partnership by:
SE Portland Tool Library & St. David’s Episcopal Church

Advanced registration is required and space is limited.
   
Register online at: www.emswcd.org
Information: 503-935-5383