HAPPENING PEOPLE
BY PAUL NEEVEL
SHELLEY BOWERMAN
“My parents have an interior plant company,” says Shelley Bowerman, who planted a garden at her
rental house when she moved from the Napa Valley to Eugene after high school. “I got involved with people
who grow food for FOOD for Lane County in the Whiteaker Community Garden.” Bowerman started out in
journalism at the UO, but switched to international studies. “I focused on food and farming,” she says. “I
was in a group called the Food Project, trying to put more local food in the dorms.” One result was Project
Tomato, a four-day course preceding fall term for 10 students, who harvested 1,000 pounds of tomatoes
and made pizza sauce for Carson Dining Hall. After graduation in 2009, Bowerman was hired part-time by
the UO Office of Sustainability to develop programs for the new sustainability-themed residence hall that
opened this fall. “Project Tomato has happened annually,” she notes. “Every year, we’ve added a new
orientation trip. One of them is H2Oregon, a backpacking trip along the McKenzie, looking at water issues.”
When she’s not on campus, Bowerman manages the Ant Farm, an informal backyard-garden CSA that
serves 10 households. “We’ve been growing food since April,” she says. “We did a lot of storage crops:
onions, potatoes, and shallots. It’s an example of how we can grow our own food in an urban setting.”
That’s Cool New & Used is a
new retail shop at 1000 Bertelsen
Road, Suite 3, in Eugene. The locally
owned and operated store offers
antiques, gift items, video games,
housewares, used furnishings and
collectables. They also do repairs
and refinishing. Call 343-3642 for
hours or find the store on Facebook.
A website in under construction.
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We hear from Benjamin Maude
that GastroNomad, his small
gourmet street food business, “came
to an abrupt end before it even got
started.” Maude says his food cart
was stolen early in October, and he’s
decided to use Kickstarter.com to
help him get a new cart. He’s raising
money to restore and retrofit a 1971
VW van. Check out the details at
http://wkly.ws/1dp
The Arts & Business Alliance of
Eugene’s Brava Breakfast will be at 8
am Friday, Nov. 9, at the Hilton
downtown. Register at http://wkly.
ws/1dr
The final Saturday Market of
the season will be Saturday, Nov. 10,
rain or shine, at the Park Blocks
downtown, with free music on stage
from 10 am to 4 pm. Holiday Market
starts up the next Saturday, Nov. 17,
at the Fairgrounds and continues
weekends through Dec. 24.
The Tamarack Pool of Lights
Celebration will be from 4:45 to
6:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 11, at 3575
Donald St. in Eugene. The nonprofit
wellness center’s annual event
features 1,000 candles floating in
the pool following talks by Mayor
Kitty Piercy, Leigh Anne Jasheway
and others. Music will be provided by
the Shinwa Taiko Group. The
celebration also honors veterans
and an open swim for vets and their
families and friends begins at 2 pm.
See tamarackwellness.org
The Pearl Buck Center is
celebrating 60 years with an open
house from 4 to 6 pm Wednesday,
Nov. 14, at 3690 W. 1st Ave. RSVP to
484-4666 by Nov. 12.
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