Urban Edibles - Portland

Hello everyone. Our last meeting was a complete success! Free Geek donated a projector so we could show off the interworkings of the site, and we had some good discussion about the history and future of the project.

The last hour of the work party yielded a nice amount of collaborative research for the Urban Edibles Wiki. If you’re not familiar with this feature, it is essentially an interactive common grounds for sharing information about the site and project. For example, check out the section for research on specific plants that was added to during the meeting:

http://wiki.urbanedibles.org/edibles/show/ResearchOnSpecificPlants

We see the Wiki as a scrap book for content that may eventually be added to the main site. Posting and editing the Wiki is a group effort and we’d love your input. Anyone can click “Edit Page” and any size of contribution is helpful!

A new feature on the site is a “permissions” drop-down box on the Add Sources page. There has been much discussion regarding the ethics of scouting and harvesting edible foods and we’ve tried to design a way to track the situation of each food source submitted to our database. Please check out the new feature and let us know how it works for you. We hope to establish a better understanding between scouts, harvesters, landowners and the various plants in question.

Our next meeting will be Sunday, October 18th from 5-7PM at Liberty Hall. This will be a work party for UE alumni as well as an info-session for newcomers. All questions will be addressed and site tutorials provided. Feel free to bring research materials, laptops and any other information related to the site. Happy harvesting!