Fall Deck Maintenance Made Easy with Redwood

by Charlie Jourdain, California Redwood Association

For many homeowners, fall is the time for a little maintenance around the yard: a great opportunity to take stock of any landscaping needs or to prepare certain garden beds for their dormant season. It is also the perfect time for a quick check-up on your deck and make sure it’s ready for the next warm weather season.

Salvaging At An Old Barn

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Imperfect Salvage – In Lieu of Therapy

by Nancy Ranchel
By Nancy Ranchel

knob 1 compressedIf you need to stop sweating the small stuff around the house, and you need to forget the idea of perfection….start a house project with salvage. A salvage project is imperfect, unlikely to match anything, and will require abandoning preconceived notions about how a house should look. It’s a course in forced relaxation of design rules. No joke. Want some ideas? Here you go! 

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The 2015 NWPCC will be held August 28 – 30 at the River Road Recreation Center in Eugene

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drivewayThe annual Northwest Permaculture Convergence is a unique opportunity to share permaculture skills, stories and fun with others who are working to build resilient communities. The 2015 Convergence is the first ever to be hosted in a suburban neighborhood. In Eugene, host city for the event, there are many impressive sites to show and stories to tell about greening our lives, neighborhoods and communities. Please join us!

Permaculture and the Future of Neighborhoods

by Tom Allen

Suburbia is often maligned and seen as a major mistake in land use. There was even a movie titled “The End of Suburbia” a few years back. But suburbia may just be the solution to a gnawing set of problems brought on by the overuse of fossil fuels generated by suburbia itself. The most pressing of which is global climate change. It’s become clear that business as usual isn’t an option.