Portland Yard Sharing

Friday, November 21, 2008
I launched the remodel of the website I created last night.. I am looking for feedback. We are also now using snap browser enhancement because I like it..

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Greetings everyone
So the community gardens forum was a eye opener in the needs of the Portland Community Gardens. One very important thing I learned was the for a plot to be considered a site for the Portland community gardens it must be at least 7500 SQFT that’s a lot of space. Now again this shows where Portland Yard Sharing can step in. I don’t anticipate that we would have a space available anywhere close to 7500 SQFT, this means a lot of available plots out there can be serviced by the PYS community.

Also Portland Yard Sharing was well received as a possible alternative for people who are on the waiting list for PCG. There was a lot of enthusiasm about what we could do to help one another. I am interested in how PYS can be more efficiently a bridge from not having a garden to having a garden and then if your still in need or want the opportunity to be part of the Portland community gardens.

There was a great representation of local organizations who want to assist in change for the Portland Community gardens. A few that were there in note were The Office for Community Development, Friends of Portland community gardens, Zenger farms, Learning Gardens PPS, City Garden Farms, Bridger School, AmeriCorps and of course us from Portland yard sharing.
All in all there were many wonderful ideas about how to help the community gardens. Lets band together in ideas about how not only to help the Portland Community Gardens but also to help grow yardsharing.org
-Joshua Patterson

Community Garden Forum - Beaumont - Nov 18th 2008 6-8pm

Monday, November 17, 2008
We added a much more detailed lower menu that I hope will help you navigate the website better.
We also added a donate button. This will allow secure financial donations to Portland yard sharing though PayPal. There are things we need that cost money. We would like to print brochures and advertisements. We would like to put spots in a few community newsletters maybe even the Portland tribune. Next year I would like to be listed in the ReDirect guide.. all these things cost money.
So we will see how it goes. We are also trying to figure out grant writing and what kind of grants are out there that can help us out..

Wednesday Nov, 12th

You can now download our new brochure for PYS... yay!!

Monday Oct 14 2008

As you can see we are continuing to get our website in tip top shape. We have also created a google group so that we can communicate easily.

Check it out.. @ http://groups.google.com/group/portland-yard-sharing