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Classifieds Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com Food continued from page 6 work and participate in Farm the Congregation? EMO: Drop by a farmer table or join our buying club and support local farmers and build relationships in your community! Take some fresh food home and have a meal with your friends and family. Volun- teer with us! We are always looking for volunteers inter- ested in helping out by dis- tributing recipes, sorting produce, assisting with cooking classes and more. Join us in October for our food justice fundraiser fea- turing Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating. Email foodandfaith@emoregon.or g if you would like to help out. Donate to IFFP to sup- port projects that make the connection between food and faith and contribute to a healthy, local food system. Donations can be made at https://ssl.charityweb.net/e moregon/, be sure to select “Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership”. 2012 Farm to Congregation Partnerships Farmer Tables Muslim Community Center 3801 NE Martin Luther King Blvd Portland, OR 97212 Every Friday 12:30-2:30pm Highland Christian Center 7600 NE Glisan Street Portland, OR 97213 Biweekly on Sunday, 12:30-2:30 pm, next date July 29 St. Philip Neri 2408 Southeast 16th Avenue Portland, OR 97214 1st and 3rd Sunday of the Month, 9am-12:30 pm Waverly Heights 3300 SE Woodward Street Portland, OR 97202 2nd and 4th Sunday 10:45am-12:15pm Kairos-Milwaukee UCC 4790 Southeast Logus Road Milwaukie, OR 97222 Every Sunday 11-12pm Farm Fresh Buying Club The Farm Fresh Buying Club is operated out of Holy Redeemer (25 N Rosa Parks Way). The buying club offers local produce on a weekly basis and dry goods on a monthly basis. Because members are placing their faith@emoregon.org for more info. and to sign up. (What other dynamic pro- grams are you working on currently?) IFFP coordinates cooking classes for low-income fam- ilies. Classes will be held at ‘This year we are facilitating farmer tables with five congregations within the Portland Metro Area, along with a buying club at a congregation in North Portland’ orders together they are able to get wholesale prices from the farmer. There are no order minimums, you can order as much or as little as you would like. Orders can be placed by email or phone and pick-ups are on Wednesday from 4-5:30 p.m. The buying club accepts cash, checks, SNAP, WIC, and senior’s coupons as payment. Email foodand- Holy Redeemer church, 25 N. Rosa Parks Way. To reg- ister email foodandfaith@emoregon.or g or call 503-221-1054 x215. Upcoming classes include the following. July 25th: Eating From Your Pantry: Learn how to get out of the fast-food lifestyle and start eating from your pantry! Tips on what to buy, how to store it, and how to cook it. [$10 Class, scholarships avail- able] August 29th: Introduction to Canning: Learn how to can and preserve fresh foods throughout the winter! This lesson will teach your how to can your own homemade salsas. [$30 Class, scholar- ships available] IFFP has a number of dif- ferent toolkits and resources available including the Con- gregational Health Index (CHI), an assessment tool and planning guide that helps your faith community identify strengths and areas for improvement and create an action plan for health- impacting changes. The CHI can be downloaded off the www.faithandwell- ness.org website. This web- site also contains resources and inspiration around faith and wellness. Other toolkits available on the IFFP website http://emoregon.org/food_f arms.php) include “Food Sovereignty for All: Over- hauling the Food System with Faith-Based Initia- tives” and “Creating Oppor- tunity through Micro- Enterprise: Faith Kitchens as Micro-Business Incuba- tors”. 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