The PCC Urban Farmer and a few committed volunteers have been busy the last few weeks continuing to improve our outside farm area!

We were excited to host Ally Moore from the Willamette Health Council (WHC) for a farm visit last week!

The SLC has been busy partnering with the Pringle Creek Community Urban Farm to make some improvements to the farm area and get it ready for community education and activities.

While the birds sing, the sun shines and the critters emerge from Winter, here at the Pringle Creek Community it’s time to prune the fruit trees!

In a time when the market seems to be selling us everything with or “convenience”, we can’t help but notice what we are trading for this so called convenience. Our own food security, mental health and nutrition.

So lets push PAUSE on convenience and shout out the top 5 benefits to growing your own food.

This past week certainly had our community reeling didn’t it? For our kids, they seem shocked at the idea … one of the things we did while the power was out was make a list with the kids of everything that required electricity, and them we had them brainstorm with us a non-energy using replacement.

we are making an incredible impact on the environment with a drastic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel consumption, and even energy usage.

Salem’s very own Sustainable Living Center is helping to protect the health and wellbeing of Department of Human Services’ front line staff by facilitating the creation of cloth masks they can use.