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2009 - Past Outpost EventsDecember 18 "Living Off the Land" Where: Friday, Dec. 18 at Last Concert Cafe (1403 Nance) from 6 - 8 pm Food: Here's the proposed menu: Mustard greens with Asian Dressing Everything else is vegetarian but not Vegan Suggestion donation is $20.00 a plate Our share of the proceeds will go toward buying dirt and seed.
December 12 Please make plans to join The Last Organic Outpost on Saturday, December 12, 2009 as we celebrate our 2 year birthday party at Emile Community Farm. The event is from 10 AM to 4 PM. Our community farm is built by active participation. The Last Organic Outpost is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and providing space for dialogue on Food Security, creating a local agriculture economy, and developing a food belt throughout our city. Our vision is not just local, it is global. We recently hosted Houston’s first Green Festival, with over 1,500 hundred in attendance and a whole segment on Going Green with Yolanda Green. This 12/12, visit with our farmers and friends of the farm as we retreat to one of the greenest, most edible, place in Houston. We will have plenty of children activities, fresh produce to purchase, an art raffle (all by local artists), Joe’s Magic Mix, food by Radical Eats and a drum circle. Dress for the weather.
PRESENTATIONS FOR THE DAY We are still confirming things but as of right now our lineup for the day is as follows: Meriweather the Adventurure will be doing a presentation on Foraging and Wild Edibles in Houston. He will present at 11:30 and will be doing a couple of plant walks at 10:30 and 1:30x to show everyone what is growing in the garden. Check out his blog
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FUNDRAISER FOR THE EVENT We will be having a raffle featuring local art under the covered area. Be sure to buy a few tickets to support the farm and help us buy dirt and seed this spring.
October 24 KPFT Benefit! Community Green Fest - Noon 'till 6pm There will be a Raffle and Silent Auction by the Houston Green Scene. 3 Stages for this event! Children’s activities including free petting zoo, face painting, scavenger hunt, children’s fashion show by Sama Baby, interactive puppet show with Super Happy Funland, storytelling, NIA for tots and other small children, Sack races, art stations, balloon art, gardening activities and many more! Green People at the event include: Houston Green scene, Houston Electric Cars, Green Cleaning products, Recycling provided by Not Trash.Houston, The Young and the Restless (children’s resale), Massage in the garden sponsored by Dentiq- Houston’s Premier Green Dental Office, Yoga by Jennyoga and Devanand Yoga Center, Mother’s For Clean Air Music- two stages full of wonderful local artists- 144 Elite, Cabo, Tom Tranchilla and Buddy Allen, DJ Sunonwater, Jerome Vielman, and many more. Food Provided by Radical Eats and Ruggles Green. Featured local artist, Charles Washington will be demonstrating making art out of Recycled Material along with other works of Garden Art. Download the Schedule here (pdf). We still need lots of good help to get ready for the event in the next few weeks, specifically with planting, getting the childrens area ready and finishing the deck. We will be out at the farm every Saturday and Sunday until dark. If you'd like to work on one of the building projects during the week, please call marcella at 713.444.0067. Directions to Emile Street Community Farm Travel to I-10 East, just east of 59 on the Northeast Corner of Downtown. Exit Waco and go South. Turn left on Buck Street. Go to N. Emile and turn Right. The farm is on your right. Look for the big Farm Art Sign.
October 17 Buffalo Soldiers Visit The Buffalo Soldiers are coming to the Emile Community Farm from 11:00 to 1:00 pm. Please plan on bringing your children to hear about this important time in America's history. For more information, please contact Marcella at 713-931-6100
September 20 REBEL ROOTS' END OF SUMMER BRUNCH Save a few hours on your calendar for Rebel Roots’ End of Summer Brunch, on Sunday September 20th at the Last Organic Outpost. Food will be served from 12 to 2, then get ready for a day of farming! Our menu includes the main dishes of 2 tofu scramble tacos, or an arepa with mojito. Your choices of side dishes include bagels with vegan cheese spread, spicy stir fried potatoes, or a fruit and granola parfait with our without yogurt. To drink we will have iced coffee, or mimosas! For a $7 plate you will receive one main, two sides, and 1 drink. As always we will also provide a la carte options. So, join us as Rebel Roots provides the vegan/vegetarian food, and the Last Organic Outpost provides land and skills for a fun day of farming!!! As always we prepare cruelty free vegan/vegetarian food and all proceeds will support the worker owned and operated food collective. To remind you all, our goal is to establish a community space that provides cheap vegan/vegetarian food for everyone. Please bring your friends and family to join us at this dazzling agricultural hot spot for a day of food, fun, and farming! See the map for directions on how to arrive at the Emile St. Farm and if you have any questions/comments for Rebel Roots please contact us at HoustonFoodCoop@gmail.com. See you all there!
August 29/30 THIS WEEKENDS' PROJECTS: This Saturday we will be working with Phil starting at 9am building a deck at the back of Emile near the bee keeping. Right now, we are looking for 4x4's and brick for the deck project this weekend. In the near future we will post needed items on the web site as the these projects take off. We will also be working on the "Take Back The Buck street Expansion" project to clear the weeds. We have plenty of compost to redo the beds and lots of seed to continue the fall planting. Mustard and collards will being planted soon.
Saturday June 27th Please plan to come to the garden this Saturday for a huge work event. We'd appreciate anyone bring tools for this event as we will be woefully short of enough! Over 100 students from Prarie View A&M will be working to support the Houston Hope Housing project by working on the farm. There will also be volunteers from OFA (Organizing for America) working to support National Healthcare Day of Service. About the students who will are coming:
For more information about the Houston Hope project, visit their website @ www.houstontx.gov/houstonhope For more information about OFA, contact Erica Mohammed @ 832-607-5515
Sunday June 14th Open House: 10am Volunteer Day - 11 - 1:00pm Pot Luck Dinner: 2 - 6:00pm
Saturday May30 Rebel Roots, Houston’s very own worker owned and operated food co-op will be holding their first spring urban farm party at the Last Organic Outpost’s Emile St. Farm. Our main dishes will consist of Enchiladas, Ceviche, and Curry with Pasta Salad, Coleslaw, Spring Rolls, and Humus as sides. Your choice of Melon Juice, Strawberry Lemonade, and Mint Water will be served to wash down all that delicious food. As for desert, you will have to decide between sweet, tangy Lemon Bars and smooth, cool Jell-O. Food will be served from 4-7 pm and plates will be $8 with options for seconds, and an A La Cart Menu. As always we prepare cruelty free vegan food and all proceeds aid us in our goal to establish a community space that provides cheap vegan food to all people. Please bring your friends and family to join us at this dazzling agricultural hot spot for a day of food, fun, and farming! (map) If you have any questions/comments for Rebel Roots please contact us at HoustonFoodCoop@gmail.com. See you all there!
Friday May 22nd There will be a panel discussion and local food from the Emile Street Community Farm and The Live Oak Outpost. The Urban Farm Belt is a inner city farm project that is dedicated to developing a local food economy in and around Houston. Live Music!
February 28 Work Day and Open House These workshops are hands-on classes and getting a good job done. This weekend we will be building new beds in the Buck Street expansion. We could use lots of plants to kick off the spring planting.
February 20 Work Day and Open House We are presently working on the Buck Street expansion and hope to get
February 14 Valentine's Dinner - another Saturday afternoon Dinner featuring the greens from the urban garden. The Dinner will begin around 2 and go till dark.
February 12 Workshop Scott Kellogg of Austin's Rhizome Collective and co-author of the recently
released book Toolbox for Sustainable Urban Living will present a workshop that
will focus on skills, tools, and technologies usable by urban residents who want
more local access and control over food, water security, waste management and
energy production. Using affordable, simple designs, he will discuss how to
build sustainable infrastructure in our backyards by utilizing salvaged and
recycled materials. Systems to be described include: Scott Kellogg and Stacey Pettigrew are co-founders of the Rhizome Collective and its sustainability program and the primary teachers of R.U.S.T.--The Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend workshop in urban ecological survival skills. They divides his time between the Rhizome Collective in Austin, and the Albany Free School Community in Albany, New York.
February 7 Winter Dinner- from 2pm till dark featuring all the food from the garden. Come and see the big effort going on at your farm in Houston's 5th ward. The Houston Chronicle will be present shooting photos. Watch for the article in the Lifestyle section on Sunday the 8th!
January 10 We plan to pick and provide a meal from the garden at the party. Please feel free to pick yourself for donations. Entertainment is planned and we will post the details soon.
January 2 Dan Phillips' beautiful gazebo (currently at Discovery Green) is planned to move to Emile Street, January 2nd at 11:00pm. This is subject to change, so we will let you know if the time shifts.
Saturdays Work events are planned at the Emile St. Community Farm every Saturday after 10:00 am until dark and Sundays, 2 until dark. We work at the Live Oak Outpost every Sunday morning from 9:30 until 2:00 when we move to the Emile Street Farm, weather permitting. Please feel free to show up and join us. No need to call first.
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A celebration of community with an emphasis on all things renewable, sustainable and green.
Vendors, artists, green building, workshops, petting zoo and childrens activities.
