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MERP Expanding grassroots power w/ marginalized communities to build food sovereignty 4 climate justice

11/26/2024

🌱 ROOTS is a collaboration project between the Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project (MERP), a few of Portland’s top hip hop artists, and local BIPOC urban farmers👨🏿‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾🧑🏾‍🌾👩🏽‍🌾. Together we weave a visual of what growing our communities looks like through urban farming and food justice! Change food systems! 🎥🎬 Watch the full music video at linktr.ee/merppdx!

05/15/2024

Got any TGIF weekend plans?!

Come to The 'Willam-Jam' w/ Mosquito Fleet at Green Anchors on Friday, May 17th 6pm!

It's a community benefit event for Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3) . Here's a link about 'Who They Are':

https://www.ip3action.org/who-we-are/

Come to Willam-Jam this Friday at 6pm for the fun in building community and connecting to our neighbors with musical sounds like Cumbia, House, Techno, Dembow, Reggeaton, Hip Hop, and Global Music by Inès Paulina Ramírez aka Lapaushi w/ Latinxs DJ Collective Noche Libre in Portland!

Get your sliding scale tix in advance: WillamJamPDX.com or at the entrance but no one turned away for the lack of funds!

Find us there tabling about MERP at this fun community benefit event for IP3!

05/13/2024

MERP Spring Plant Sale, this Saturday May 18th from 2-5 pm at our greenhouse! 9217 SE STEELE Street!

Plant starts are $2-5 each or $20-50 per tray (you can mix & match). We will also have our mini greenhouses to give away! We’re asking for a $0-10 donation for the greenhouses—they’re lightweight and sturdy as the video on the 2nd page shows!l

04/23/2024

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Join us on Apr. 27 at 3pm in Shemanski Park as we protest the  sharing a lobbying firm with major gas companies, and also call out lobbyists who work for both Cascade Natural Gas and victims of the   🛢️🛢️🛢️and 🎨🎨🎨don’t mix! because fossil fuel extraction drives the capitalism that employs genocide as a tactic of whaite supremacy. I respect the effort made at inclusivity on the part of PAM in recent exhibits like the excellent Black Artists of Oregon. Keep that up and consider this a call in. Let’s serve the best interests of the planet, humanity and the biosphere Ny creating the world we want to live in, together!

Given there is so much depth to go into each crop vegetables/herbs but here are some basics. Meet more neighbors at futu...
04/21/2024

Given there is so much depth to go into each crop vegetables/herbs but here are some basics. Meet more neighbors at future workshops and connect to projects with MERP & grow food!

Expect everything to be typed in the captions for those who need audio text to be read out loud here after our first workshop today!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C517hmAPzsV/?igsh=MTZpdGE3ZmVuYjhlaA==Hi Neighbors,MERP is going to be offering workshops ab...
04/17/2024

https://www.instagram.com/p/C517hmAPzsV/?igsh=MTZpdGE3ZmVuYjhlaA==Hi Neighbors,

MERP is going to be offering workshops about growing food starting with this workshop on Sunday, April 21st 2PM-5PM & helping volunteers opt-in better with 'Volunteer Coordination Team'. Yolotli X (They/Them) will be facilitating this next Sunday at Fosterville with comrades. MERP needs to educate volunteers about growing food to see communities grow food and scale urban farming for the climate strike in 2030.

These workshops will be basic yet interactive & opportunities to connect with garden stewards to current projects about growing food and scaling urban farming. A 'Garden Steward' is a participant who organizes and care-takes a co-op garden/project with MERP. Come to this workshop to learn about what is MERP and the basics of gardening/planting i.e. Identify crops, prep, care, when and how to grow.

Comment here to RSVP and a Volunteer Coordinator will plug you in!

P.S. All MERP events are mask required.

Call for volunteers!!🗣️ Our Spring Gathering Block Party is happening this Saturday, rain or shine!! Shifts are 1 hour a...
04/03/2024

Call for volunteers!!🗣️ Our Spring Gathering Block Party is happening this Saturday, rain or shine!! Shifts are 1 hour and 15 min, for Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. We will be making signage, finishing food prep, setting up, serving food, and take down day of😊

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4BAFA72FA5F4C34-48882722-spring

Flyer dates corrected:03/16 6 P.M. We're having a tamale making party!Learn how to make tamales, eat tamales & make none...
03/13/2024

Flyer dates corrected:

03/16 6 P.M.

We're having a tamale making party!
Learn how to make tamales, eat tamales & make none alcoholic, Mexican drinks too! You'll even learn history about tamales!

Plus, help us make tamales for the Spring Gathering on Sat. April 16th!

Restroom available!

¡All MERP events are masked required & often outside!

🫔This Saturday, MARCH 16TH 6PM at
Steele Magnolia: 9217 SE Steele St 🫔

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