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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
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St. Philip Neri
2408 Southeast 16th
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Portland, OR 97214
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Waverly Heights
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Portland, OR 97202
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Kairos-Milwaukee UCC
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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”.
We are especially excited
about our Rockwood Voices
for Food Justice project that
will start in September in
Gresham’s
Rockwood
neighborhood. A team of
low-income
residents
reflecting the diversity of
the neighborhood will con-
duct an assessment in cul-
turally appropriate ways to
find out what challenges
residents face in accessing
food and what their ideas
are for creating more oppor-
tunities for healthy food.
We have been working
with congregations to
improve the ministry value
and environmental steward-
ship of their lands
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