Below are notes from out last one on November 4th. We have them every Friday so should you ever be available and curious, drop on in. We’d love to hear your thoughts too!

Love, Project Grow.

Good news:
1. Kristin: No longer has to take a pill that made her lethargic! Yay!
2. Patsy: Has a badge for the Washington County Sheriff! Wow!
3. Kelly: Kimmy is out of the hospital and she did Kelly’s nails and hair! Yippee!
4. Tim: We have a tour at Columbia Gorge Model Train rides! Rock on! (QT said,’I want to go!!!’)
5. Chanel: She is going to go to Colorado for 2 weeks in December!
6. Scott who we miss a lot is back in town!

Bekka is going on some exciting adventures to Thailand!
1. Eddie would like her to bring back volunteers.
2. Kristin is already afraid she’ll miss her too much.
3. Patsy would like to go all out and celebrate her! She wants us to have potato salad and macaroni salad at the party.
4. Bekka’s favorite cake is chocolate with berries. We will celebrate Thursday!

Chanel reminded us that it was two years ago that her mom died in a nursing home.
1. we all took a moment to celebrate the memory of the wonderful person that was Denise and to offer our support to Chanel.
2. Chanel thanked Denise for watchign over us.

Eleanor would like to organize a trip to Tiny’s today!
1. Eddie is interested.
2. Zach is into it.
3. Babs is totally down!

Caitlin knows of a place where you can get free chips and dip with your meal.
1. Kelly thinks that is keepin it real for that arugula!

Tim is excited about today’s potato lecture.
1. Thanks to Tanya and Tina and Jamond and Kelly for helping prepare the space.
2. The walls and windows look amazing.

Sonya wanted to share with us that her church is selling Christmas trees if anyone is looking for any.
Andres is looking forward to Thanksgiving.
1. We are going to have dinner here together on 26th if anyone is interested.

Today is dance day at Polaris.
1. Chanel is going
2. Kristin and Sonya are exctied
3. QT can’t wait to rock.
4, Viola’s in, and so is David.
5. Teresita quiere bailar!

Eleanor is excited about Valentines
1. So is Tanya and Tina
2. they look it up, it is on a Tuesday this year

Eleanor wanted to brainstorm about some issues she is having at New Seasons
1. We talked about how challenges are opportunities for learning
2. It will get better, misunderstandings happen

Viola loves watching babies being born.
2. So does Kristin and Sonya.

Ginger’s birthday is coming up!
1, She’d like to celebrate with coffee.

Eleanor wanted us to take a moment of silence for unjust treatment from law enforcement
1. James mentioned this is happening everywhere
2. Eleanor added that it is happening in Chile
3. What can we do?

Human rights celebration in December for the 63rd anniversary of the UN Declaration!
1. Patsy said if stuffs is your it’s yours
2. We will be making tiles if anyone is interested and speaking at City hall!

We brainstormed about the December people party being a hawaiian theme! Ooh lala.
Tim wanted to lay down the law, no Xmas music until after Thanksgiving.
1. Kristin thinks it doens’t matter, we should play it whenever we want. She loves christmas music. debate to be continued.

Tina Y reminded us that we have the day off Friday!

Eleanor is really pleased that she opened her Organics to You box and found out that starting next week produce from the north portland farm will be included in it! Yay!

Zach is going to miss everyone when he goe son vacation. But he will be back on the 30th. Leaves next Friday, 11, 11, 11 on his amazing birthday!

David C wants to share tons of love with all. Have mercy!

He told me

a number of times

He loved me.

I told him that right back.

I hope and I pray

That he comes closer and closer to me

I want to get

closer

and closer

to him.

I don’t want to ever leave him.

If anything is wrong

I want to hear about it

I don’t care if it is

bad

good

or sad

I don’t care

I just want to be there for ever

and ever.

-Ginger Matthews

Love,
All of us from Project Grow

Minimum Wage:
Patsy: “Watch your P’s and Q’s. No arguments. No fights. No nothing. Just do your jobs.”
“That’s the only thing I will ask. “
Catie: Do you want me to keep making you homemade calendars?
Patsy: Yes. I made up a choice. Instead of painting, you guys going to be secretaries. The whole ship kaboom.
A friend of mine, is going to be sit side by side by me. She is my secretary. Everyone will get minimum wage.
stacey: What is minimum wage?
Eleanor: Minimum wage is how much money we get by the things we do as Project Grow. Gardening farm, studio management. My father and I have been fighting this for people and adults with a minimum wage.
Everyone celebrated the idea of minimum wage. Yay!

Stacey has an idea for a show
Stacey: My own gallery. Painting, Crochet. Knitting. Wants to have a show! The weaving. Various

Not everyone wants to be an actor
Chanel: cried all night and day about people at Safeway not wanting to be her movie.

Going to the beach
Sonya: Will be on vacation next month. But will call us to say hi!
Dan: Caught us up on the beach trip. Everyone went to look at galleries. Charlie was buried in the sand. The road was blocked off.

Rummage Sale
Eleanor: Rummage Sale on August 27th.Sonya thinks this is amazing and wants to help as does Stacey and Dan and David C. with handing out fliers.
Stacey wants to sell clothes!
Ginger: What is for sale?
All sorts of things?
Can we sell cothes?
Tim: as long it is really clean.
David C: Rock and Roll! Cds too.
Stacey: What will happen with the money?
Dan: We can pay our bills and buy more art supplies?
Stacey: Can we give it to homeless?
Everyone: sure!
Catie: Big surprise we made home made waffles!
James: sounds delicious.
Zach: mmmmmmm.
Patsy: Will there be something to drink that is sugar free?
Emese: We had talked about sun tea.

Coffee run today!
Eleanor would like to organize one. Who wants to go?
Coffee run: Eleanor, Eddie

New time sheet system for
Time sheets:Patsy, Stacey, Eric, Tim, Tina, Dan (phone answering when Patsy is not here)
To learn new job skills
To self manage and self motivate

Exciting things!
Chanel: Turn new york into Tokyo! Residency!
QT: First solo show!

Brainstorming creative ways to get Catie’s art out there
Catie: sell art pages
Emese: Make original art
Shannon: she could make I spy books!
Stacey: Where’s waldo kind!
Catie: yea!

Picnic!
Dan: where?
Zach: Here
Emese: Maye we can even bring in some healthy food!
Dan: like grapes.
Monica: How about pineapples?
James: Pineapple helps digest beans!
Fascinating.
Steven: I like watermelon.
Ginger: Kiwis.
Chanel: Blackberries. Raspberries.
Stacey: Fruit Salad.

Today instead of burritos…a new idea
Tim: Instead of burritos, truck style diner for lunch!
Who else wants to go?
Kristin and Dan

Street art show
Zach: wants to be a curator of the Street art show.
Stacey: also.

Bowling
Dash: Will contact the bowling alley at PSU to see if we can go there for free.

Tina and Tanya’s birthday today!
Zach: it’s tina and tanya’s birthday!
Let’s sing them happy birthday!
Lorna: Speech!
Tina and Tanya: Thank you!
They went to visit baby bunnies. Heaven.

newly fired pottery from the kiln!
Tim: Look at the stuff that was fired!

One million people. Naked. And Nuded.
All through town. A nice guy.
It feels good with our naked bodies. Nude People. Lots of people are cheering. Music and noises.
It’s really fun.
We’re going to do it next year too.
by the way, I farted on Saturday. There’s going to be a whole lot of people there…a whole lot. There were 200 people on skateboards.
It feels like heaven.
There were a whole bunch of cops.
I was so excited to go! Tons of lights! All over the city.

Beautiful! Sexy.

By Patsy Blaiser
June 21, 2011

The red, the yellow and the blue
It’s shaped like a flower
In my heart
Why is that?
Everyone can see me happy
And everything goes right
This area goes from there and this part here is my area
To me, I’ve got somebody in my life
And the flowers are meant to be
Belong to a certain party I know
I wish that he would come up here
And look at the painting that I did
Oliver
He’s nine
He is taller than I am
And he’s really nice to me
He helped me out a lot
He showed me how to be
And the numbers
And the alphabet
And stuff like that
And he said
He makes me happy
He helped me out and everything
When I get stuck
He helped me
To me,
It’s opened my heart up
Every time I see it (this painting)
It tells me my heart has opened up wide
And my life is very special
And that’s why I love these flowers
It talks to me
Because I pray to God
And it has butterflies on it
Along with the flowers
Along with a dozen red roses
I like someone in my life
And he cares about me
He would help me out a lot
That’s what the flowers telling me
I had to tell somebody
It also tells me
A certain party I know will help me out

It’s You.

Packing List:

+Bag of Magenta Orach
+Arugula
+Mizuna & Mustard
+Bunch of Radishes
+Bunch of chives
+Lovage
+Half-dozen of eggs
+Spinach
+Mint

Hello Shareholders!

What an exciting day it is. We’ve been looking forward to this day since last November, and it is finally here! The first of 18 weeks of deliveries, and it’s a great showing of June’s offerings in this cool maritime spring (summer, supposedly). The real “June” winners (peas and strawberries) are still a week or two out, but look forward to them. All of our heartier offerings tend to be later season crops, but the light fare offered in this box will hopefully complement the hot weather we wish to see soon. Wishful thinking. There are obviously excellent salad opportunities offered in this box, but don’t discount the cooked possibilities of the orach, arugula, spinach, and even the radish greens.
Right now at the farm, we’re still planting, scrambling to get the fields in order and accounted for, and work hastily on our various non-food farm projects. The new farm/garden site up on Legacy Emanuel’s property is moving along, with infrastructure being added steadily. Tim is still waiting for his knee to recover enough to get back to kneeling/lifting/moving without crutches, while James and everyone else have been working hard without fail. Oh! Save the date! Our third annual North Portland Farm Throwdown is on Saturday the 25th, featuring good (free) beer from Ninkasi, The amazing Jeffrey Jerusalem, SAFE, and Malaikat dan Singa performing outside in the farm. It’s always a blast, and this year will be even nicer since we’re not working to fancy the place up until the last moment.
Once again, make sure to leave this week’s box flattened and ready for pickup next week! We hope you enjoy this food!

-The North Portland Farm

Forrest’s second poem on a day sure to be filled with beauty.

“Shoe’s untied!” Ricky

“Woof, woof, ruff, ruff, ruff!” – David L.

“You’ve got a stain on your T-shirt” – Eddie

“April fools! I’m not here!” – Kelly

“Emese’s shirt is on backwards!” – Zach

“What’s a hijacker doing on an airplane? He’s holding hostages on the airline too much.” “What’s a bear cub doing in the cupboard? He’s looking around for food. Ham or cheese.” – John

“I’m going home sick. I’m coming back Tuesday.” – Sonya

“Larry is an April fool!” – Lorna

“What’s black, white, and red all over? A blushing zebra” – Tina C.

“You’re a bowling pin! April Fools!” – Dan

“Leprechauns steal Easter eggs!” – Jamond

“You’re shirt is on backwards!” – Steven

“A ship was passing a small island. On the island was a man frantically waving his hands. The passenger asked the captain ‘who was that man?’ and the captain replied “I don’t know, every year we pass the island he goes mad!” – Jen

“A man walks into a bar….ouch!” – Ilene