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Barter Hours Memberships are only $5/year—and come with 4 free Barter Hours and a Members' Services Directory (2 Barter Hours for renewals). Do it now!
The next Barter Hours Meeting will be Tuesday, August 12th at 6pm, and will start with a potluck dinner. The meeting will be held at Merita and Willard Koehn's home in Cañoncito/Sapello.
E-Mail Cordia or call her or Dianne Lindsay at 426-1468 to find out more about the meeting or to get directions to Merita and Willard's.
(click on a member's name to see their complete Directory listings)
Take some of our Barter Hours workshops to learn more about something you're interested in... or share something you know well with others by leading a workshop.
We have great stores of experience in our community—let's share them!
Hedy Trevino's Canning, Drying and Preservation workshop to be held September 29th.
Here's a short, interesting and useful article called 'Adopt a Legislator' (PDF) that gives excellent tips on how to form a more personal relationship with your legislator(s) that will allow you to have greater input into state and local affairs. A fun article courtesy of Bernalillo County's chapter of Local Collaborative, Inc.
The Tri-County Farmers Market will be open all summer from 7am to sellout on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The Market is located at 6th and University Streets near Semilla health food store. To find out more, contact Daniel Hern at 766-8315.
Local Food Matters is sponsoring a Community Garden space, land for which is being loaned to the group by Miguel Angel. Anyone can have their own space in the garden, which is located on the corner of Taos and Church streets (one block north of Hot Springs in LV).
So far 9 gardeners are growing corn, beans, squashes, tomatoes, peas, okra and more! Members are planning a greenhouse/coldframe to keep the gardens producing into winter. For more information you can leave a message for Julie Olague at 515-5365.
Local Food Matters is also preparing a brochure listing all local food producers and growers (including veggies, fruits, eggs, dairy, poultry and meat). What a great resource this will be! If you know a grower who is not yet connected with Local Food Matters and would like to be included in the brochure, please contact Elizabeth Ratzlaff at 454-9242 or Julie Olague at 421-8936. We'll all benefit from pitching in on this one.
Barter Hours member Bob Wallace has started an electronic discussion list, the Las Vegas Issues Forum. The purpose of the list is "to provide a safe, open, online space for the discussion of issues that matter in Las Vegas and surrounding communities..."
If you're interested in joining the discussion group (we need your voice!), you can sign up for Las Vegas Issues Forum here.
Barter Hours Newsletters and Updates are available free online here or in paper form by request. If you need help getting a paper copy, e-mail Cordia or call her at 426-1468.
Better yet, tell us your e-mail address (we won't share it) and we'll e-mail the newsletter right to your inbox each issue, saving paper, postage and transportation costs.
