Mark your calendars, the S(ew)CIAL MEETUP will be the third Friday of every month. Next one is June 19th. In nice weather we will meet at the picnic tables near the totem, with the rainy day backup plan being inside the public market.
Bring your embroidery, stitching or knitting projects down for chit chat. I'll have sewing supplies available and am willing to teach basic stitches.
Would love to stitch with you 💛💛💛
Update: forecast looks drizzly so we will meet inside the Port Orchard Public Market
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I'm running with an outdoor sewing meetup! Let's meet at the Port Orchard waterfront by the picnic tables near the totem & ferry dock. If the weather is bad, we'll hide inside the public market.
First one Friday May 15 from 5-7pm, drop in when you can. Grab takeout from a spot in PO and have dinner over stitching.
Bring your mend projects, embroidery, knitting to work on and we'll chit chat in the park. I'll bring some supplies with me and am happy to teach basic sewing techniques too.
As of June 4th, Mary and I will be resigned from our roles as stewards with People’s Exchange. It has meant so much to both of us to have been a part of building such an important part of the community. From art classes, to mending meetups, to community safety, to food distribution, to every single thing we have been a part of to weave deeper connections and build a safe and resilient community.
Stepping away was and is a difficult decision but we both feel the pull to be more active and organize down where we live, in Port Orchard, A place that has the need and opportunity. So we’re not gone, and we intend to stay connected to everyone. If you find yourself down In South Kitsap, or you yourself live down here, let’s connect! A better world is possible, we just have to build it together!
In Solidarity,
Rob & Mary
I'm running with an outdoor sewing meetup! Let's meet at the Port Orchard waterfront by the picnic tables near the totem & ferry dock. If the weather is bad, we'll hide inside the public market.
First one Friday May 15 from 5-7pm, drop in when you can. Grab takeout from a spot in PO and have dinner over stitching.
Bring your mend projects, embroidery, knitting to work on and we'll chit chat in the park. I'll bring some supplies with me and am happy to teach basic sewing techniques too.
Hey all, Mending Meetups will be moving offsite with new times and locations. I used to host mending meetups in Minneapolis outside in parks and the good weather is calling me. Follow @refusing_refuse for updates on our next get together.
We had to put down our favorite chicken earlier this week. The favorite ones are supposed to live forever. As much as you can try to not get attached, it happens. Bawk Bawk lived a great life for five years and died of ovarian cancer. My days nursing her in the bathtub made it clear there wasn't going to be a rebound in her health. It was her time. She is already missed.
Facts about Bawk Bawk:
- my then 2 yo niece named her
- she was a part of our first brood of chickens
- Boy was her breed mate (both easter eggers)
- she was our first blue egg
- Winnie was her best bud
- She was the only hen that would let you sneak in a belly rub once and a while
- we used to sit and chit chat with one another
Getting 30 flowering native shrubs in the ground today. Serviceberry, Red Flowering Currant and Mock Orange. These will be all up on my higher drier land.
Brought some live stakes out to the island and sunk them in the wetlands recently. I've had luck with live stakes of willow, elderberry, red osier dogwood and snowberry. These are elderberry, whose success rate is maybe 50/50 of them surviving. For best results you want stakes that are 3-4' long, wider than a pencil but not fatter than a thumb. New growth wood works best usually. I remove all buds and side branches so the stake can just focus on establishing roots. The goal is to sink the stakes 1-2' deep to submerge at least a few nodes. Make sure you don't put them in upside down! I like to do these in the fall so they have the wet season to get started.
I'll report back in ... Like a year... To tell you how they do 😜
I've been working on a little mending zine to give out to folks at mending meetup and other events. DM me if you'd like a copy of the file.
This zine was inspired by the beautiful tutorials in Stitch It, Don't Ditch It, a book by Jeanna Wigger and Mary V Morton. Most of the illustrations were drawn by me referencing their book.
@thepeoplesmending@mvm13
We're moving the greenhouse that was out in the field next to its mate. We've been slowly transitioning all our annual produce to the raised bed garden for ease and greenhouses are just too useful for veg. The field has been slowly turning into a perennial berry zone, where we won't have to deal with watering it daily.
