South Tabor Resource Sharing
May 16, 2012 in Neighborhood by Lars
The South Tabor resource sharing project is your opportunity to connect and share resources with your neighbors. Do you need to find someone to take all those extra apples or zucchini off your hands? Maybe you need to borrow some lawn tools for the day. It’s all about sharing what you have with others and building a more self-reliant community.
There are several ways to get involved. A good first start is to register an account on Collaborate PDX. Then, request to join the South Tabor Resource Sharing group. This is a private group for those living in the South Tabor neighborhood. Here you can make requests for items you need or are giving away.
Ideas for sharing so far:
- Extra food from your vegetable garden
- Fruit from your trees
- Spare tools from your garage
- Urban homesteading knowledge
- Unused household appliances
- Knowledge about a trade/profession you are involved in
- Wireless internet with a close neighbor
- A seldom used pickup truck
- Extra space in your trash or yard waste bin
- Extra storage space in your home
- Your time
If you would like to contribute to the project and join the committee, then join us at our monthly meeting held on the first Wednesday or Thursday of each month in the evening. The time and location of each meeting will be posted by the proceeding Thursday on the South Tabor Resource Sharing group page, visible after requesting to join the group.
Once you register on the site, you may create additional groups for sharing resources in other communities that you are involved in.
hey, this is exciting to me! my kids and i are moving to south tabor (73rd south of division) and we are really into community building. it’s been hard thinking we will have to leave our NE portland neighborhood community, but i’m glad to see there are things going on in our new neighborhood, too.
i’m wondering how i can be involved, considering that i’m a single parent and have my kids during the week. friday and saturday are my only kid free evenings, so i can’t come to a meeting on a first thursday unless kids are welcome.
anyway, i’ll keep watching the site and also think of what we have to share.
–Katie
Hey Katie, welcome to the neighborhood! We’re just getting this thing going, but would love your input.
The next meeting is going to be at Pizzicato Pizza on 60th and Division, Wednesday June 6th at 7pm. Your kids are definitely welcome, they would probably have the best ideas.
I think one of the first projects we’re going to take on is to set up a crop swap for those urban farmers in the neighborhood. We also want to get more people signed up to the site so that more resources will be available to share.
hey, i’ll try to make it! that’s a little late for us (my youngest is 5), but if we eat dinner there i think it will work. we’ll see. if we aren’t there, we will try even harder to make the next one.
–katie
This is very exciting, Lars! Let’s talk resources to build some communication bulletins along Woodward street!
Feel free to post about this on the Facebook page, also. I’ll put something on the website, also.
Best,
Aron
Comms Chair
I plan on being at the meeting on Wednesday. We have already started a sharing table in our heighbohood. It is on SE Franklin st between SE 64th and SE 63rd ave
I LOVE the bulletin boards on Woodward idea too! I can’t make the meeting either (I head up the South Tabor neighborhood walking group Wednesdays at 7pm) Keep me posted though!