Join us for our next meeting Wednesday May 1, 2013 at 6:30 PM
at the Graham Fire Station
23014 70th AVE E, GrahamWe discuss a wide variety of topics including sustainable living, gardening, livestock, bees, water resources, and many more.
Families are welcome too!
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If you would like to be a vendor or provide entertainment (NO FEES ARE PAID to perform — Volunteers only)
EMail: bethelcommopenmarket@gmail.com or
Mail: 10806 240th St. E. Graham, WA 98338Let us know which dates you would be interested in and please fill in the form below and return by MAY 1, 2013. You can select, copy, and paste the info, or print (for mail-in).
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Phone: _______________________________
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What will be presented at your booth?
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Market goal: Expand the opportunity for people in the community to sell their produce, flowers, plants, meat, value-added farm foods, etc. plus encourage Cottage Industry Products such as hand-made furniture, rugs, soap, natural home cleaning products, herbal tinctures/salves, dolls, art, stationary, toys, bird feeders. Local professionals, businesses and home-based businesses are also welcome. The Open Market is all-inclusive with a focus on growing, making, and producing local products to strengthen our local economy and communities, along with an emphasis on training, learning and mentoring. There will also be a Corner Market where you can drop off products to be sold in exchange for 10% of proceeds.
Graham/Kapowsin Community Council
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For more information please contact Carol Wright: Phone 253-279-3071 carol.v.wright@att.net |
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Graham – Kapowsin Community Council
“We enhance our educational and community activities by developing a path that enables people to make positive choices through individualized attention, motivation and guidance in a professional and caring environment.”
BUILDING COMMUNITYYou can always find a link to the G-K CC under Graham Area Resources on the left-hand side of this page.
This is an interesting article brought to my attention by Karelina R.
“Build a Ventilated Cold Frame For Winter Vegetables”
“This spin on a homemade cold frame is ideal for winter lettuce, carrots, beets and more. Learn how to build a cold frame and more about the benefits.”
“For most of us, the onset of winter means the end of freshly harvested garden produce — and I used to hate that! Though I’ve never been able to afford a greenhouse, I’ve always felt that I somehow had a right to homegrown salads all year round. Furthermore, I knew that when sun strikes dark soil, it heats up the earth and the air immediately above it. So, all I really needed (I decided) was a structure that would let in the rain and sun, shelter my plants from blasts of cold air and allow enough ventilation to prevent the molds, diseases, sour soil and moss so common to greenhouses. Of course, my invention also had to be inexpensive, easy-to-build, sturdy enough to stand up against strong winter winds, and able to coexist with the four-foot-wide, fertile beds that I’d religiously composted for five years.”
Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/winter-vegetables-zmaz82jfzglo.aspx#ixzz2BJGOOOn6
PHOTO: JULIA TODD FORBES
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As you’ve heard there are more than 300 homeless children in the Bethel School dist. and some of them are in our neighborhoods (esp. south of the Pierce County bus lines on 224th) Statistics show that if children cannot read by the 3rd grade they are the ones most likely to go into poverty and children in poverty are the ones most likely to be trafficked! YIKES! This is not good. Folks in our community have said, “What can we do to help?” Debb, Lisa, Rena, Arlene, Misty and others helped pass out food where families could not make ends meet these past two summers and last Sept-June we left backpacks with weekend food in 9 schools in this South Pierce County area. Now we are looking for volunteers to come in on Tuesdays to read with 1-3rd graders at Graham elem. (or any other school closer to you if want to start up a program) and people who can help gather and fill the backpacks. Today (Tues. 9/11/12) we are meeting at Frontier Hr. Hi. at 2:30 room #434 to get ready for the reading program that starts 10/2 and to plan how to fill these backpacks. Rena suggested we sell delicious apple pies from Plush Pippin to raise funds like the Lions have done. If you have ideas or would like to participate today or any other day please let us know. Another potential project is an apple cider party at Buds and Shrubs Farm. I have 4 apple trees ready to be picked and he has the press. The cider could be sold or bartered.
Also, if you know anyone who’d love to have some beautiful solid wood desks, hutches etc.! (There is even a corner unit, bridges etc and 2 cute little solid wood file cabinets!) the $ raised by selling these OBO will be used for these projects. (They’re in the garage (YIKES again!) and now Pat wants to bring in winter wood!)
Carol V. Wright 253 847 9755 Graham Kapowsin Community Council www.facebook.com/GrahamKapowsinCommunityCouncil www.grahamlearning.org… linking the greater Graham community where the impact is great!Posted in Misc.
This was posted on Facebook today and I thought it was something I would like to share with the SRC group. Thanks, Holly
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