About Earth Every Day!
Earth Every Day at Leaven Community is a community festival, spring plant sale, and fundraiser for climate justice and community resilience at Leaven!
Hosted in collaboration with the Leaven Community Common House, we will re-introduce ourselves to our immediate neighbors in the Vernon-Alberta neighborhood and engage our surrounding community on the topics of climate justice and community resilience while providing a fun and family centered day.
This is a ticketed event by suggested donation only. No one will be turned away for lack of ability to pay.
What will happen on Earth Every Day?
Sparrowhawk Native Plants will be onsite for folx that are picking up pre-ordered plants. Missed the pre order deadline? There will be a FLASH SALE of leftovers at amazing prices at 2pm (line usually forms 10-15min in advance). Portland Fruit Tree Project will have ample garden plants and fruiting trees and shrubs for folx to choose from throughout the day.
Visit our 2Towns Ciderhouse and Deschutes Brewery bar and Lavender Lemonade Stand, eat Leaven’s Whole Lotta Goodness bowls, tour the Leaven facility, and enjoy family-centric activities while learning about your neighborhood nonprofits and Leaven's plans to expand their climate resilience actions in the neighborhood.
Want to attend the event for free as a volunteer? We would love to have you! Sign up here.
Schedule of Events:
10am - Portland Fruit Tree Project Plant Sale (until 8pm) and NE Tool Library Tool Sale and open house (until 2pm)
11am to 5pm - Crafting for kids with SCRAP PDX
12pm - Wildlife Tracking Presentation with Cascadia Wild
12-3:30pm - Grass Roots Eco Justice Organization Tabling and Repair PDX Sewing Skill Share
1 pm - Meet and Greet with Pyxis the Miniature Therapy Unicorn
2 pm - Flash Sale of Sparrowhawk Native Plants at amazing prices
2pm - Jessa of Jessa Campbell & The Saplings, all ages music celebrating the biodiversity of the forest, with special guest Dave the Wave
3:30pm - Leaven Community FREE Community Resilience Forum
5:30pm - Raffle Drawing, WIN 25$ gift card for dining at one of five Sesame Collective owned restaurants, including Lil Shalom, Dolly Olive, Mediterranean Exploration Company, Yalla, or Shalom Ya'll!
6 to 8pm - Paper Plane on the outdoor stage, with a mix of original rock and covers
Please let us know if you need any ADA access and we can assist from the check in table at NE 20th and Emerson.
From TriMet: Use Stop 6795 at 15th and Killingsworth along route #8, or walk up Killingsworth from MLK using the #6 Route.
This event is sponsored by: TriMet, Oregon Synod ELCA Climate Resilience and Disaster Response, Freeya, Critical Bath LLC, Electrify Everything PDX, and Thrivent Financial. All attendees will receive a Pro membership to Freeya via email after the event - a $60 Value!
Leaven’s Dream for Climate Justice and Community Resilience
Through an listening season in the Fall of 2023, Leaven Community unveiled a dream to become a Community Resilience Hub where diverse neighbors can grow and share food, care for one another and have access to the knowledge- and resource-sharing we all need to thrive amidst climate uncertainty.
We can’t act on this dream without our neighbors! That’s why part of this event will be to invite the surrounding communities - YOU! - to a community forum asking what “disaster” looks like in our lives - climate-related or otherwise - and how Leaven Community might be able to respond to such disasters.
Questions?
Reach out to Leaven’s Director-Organizer, Alison Killeen - alison@leaven.org