Local Resources
Buyer's Club: Azure Standard offers free membership to their buyer’s club. Operating out of Dufur, OR, they sell a wide variety of items often found in health food stores. These items include: food and spices (in bulk and/or retail sizes); books; organic garden starts; heirloom seeds; supplies for garden, bathroom, laundry, kitchen and storage; herbs (medicinal & culinary); supplements and homeopathic remedies, etc.
Two deliveries (“drops”) are accepted on the G-1 Route in the Columbia River Gorge each month. One is received in Carson, WA, usually near the beginning of the month. The other is received in North Bonneville, WA, usually during the latter part of the month. You may contact your local, volunteer “drop” manager and the Azure office for delivery information.
Contacts:
Connie Davis, 509-427-5784 – Carson
Lucia Ploskey, 509-427-2218 – N. Bonn.
Azure, 541-467-2230, Sun.-Fri. and online. Local Resources
Local Links
These are links to businesses or people someone in the Guild has dealt with personally:
Currency, local:
RiverHours
Farms:
Gorge Grown has a great list of Gorge farms here. I'd like to get a list of farms/farmers in Skamania that sell their harvest.
Food:
Azure Standard (Buyer's club. See local resources for more.)
Gorge Grown (Amazing resource of information on area farmers, etc.)
Gorge Wind Community Grocery (North Bonneville)
Peace and Justice:
Columbia River Fellowship for Peace
Plants:
Humble Roots Farm and Nursery, LLC (Mosier)
Mostly Medicinals (She's in Portland, but I love her and her plants.)
Reskilling:
Check out our events and what's happening at the
Rockford Grange here under "country living."
Spirituality & more
Heart Journey Center (Stevenson)
Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Hood River)
Trout Lake Abbey Spiritual Retreat Center (Trout Lake)
Other:
Transition Columbia Gorge (Hood River)
Two deliveries (“drops”) are accepted on the G-1 Route in the Columbia River Gorge each month. One is received in Carson, WA, usually near the beginning of the month. The other is received in North Bonneville, WA, usually during the latter part of the month. You may contact your local, volunteer “drop” manager and the Azure office for delivery information.
Contacts:
Connie Davis, 509-427-5784 – Carson
Lucia Ploskey, 509-427-2218 – N. Bonn.
Azure, 541-467-2230, Sun.-Fri. and online. Local Resources
Local Links
These are links to businesses or people someone in the Guild has dealt with personally:
Currency, local:
RiverHours
Farms:
Gorge Grown has a great list of Gorge farms here. I'd like to get a list of farms/farmers in Skamania that sell their harvest.
Food:
Azure Standard (Buyer's club. See local resources for more.)
Gorge Grown (Amazing resource of information on area farmers, etc.)
Gorge Wind Community Grocery (North Bonneville)
Peace and Justice:
Columbia River Fellowship for Peace
Plants:
Humble Roots Farm and Nursery, LLC (Mosier)
Mostly Medicinals (She's in Portland, but I love her and her plants.)
Reskilling:
Check out our events and what's happening at the
Rockford Grange here under "country living."
Spirituality & more
Heart Journey Center (Stevenson)
Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Hood River)
Trout Lake Abbey Spiritual Retreat Center (Trout Lake)
Other:
Transition Columbia Gorge (Hood River)
Good Books
Creating & Sustaining a Resilient Life
Becoming Animal by David Abram
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Coming back to life by Joanna Macy
Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet by Bill McKibben
*How to Re-Imagine the World: A pocket guide for practical visionaries by Anthony Weston
Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes
Resilience thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Walker and David Salt
Re-Visioning the Earth by Paul Devereux
*Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Unspoken Hunger by Terry Tempest Williams
Food & Sustainable food systems
Atlas of food by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang
End of Overeating by David A. Kessler
Food in the USA: A Reader edited by Carole M. Counihan
Remaking the North American Food System edited by C. Clare Hinrichs & Thomas A. Lyson
What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Gardening & Plants (see Permaculture too)
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalist & Gardeners by James B. Nardi
Maria Rodale's Organic Gardening
Maritime Northwest Garden Guide
Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge by Russ Jolley
Green building
Nature & Naturalists
Peace & Social Justice
Refusing war, Affirming peace: a History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks by Jeffrey Kovac
Permaculture
Edible Forest Gardens (volume one and two) by Dave Jacke
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay
Permaculture: principles & pathways beyond sustainability by David Holmgren
Plant medicine
Earthwise Herbal (and other titles) by Matthew Wood
Invasive Plant Medicine: the Ecological Benefits & Healing Abilities of Invasives by Timothy Lee Scott
Lost Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West by Michael Moore
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Sacred Plant Medicine by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Becoming Animal by David Abram
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Coming back to life by Joanna Macy
Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet by Bill McKibben
*How to Re-Imagine the World: A pocket guide for practical visionaries by Anthony Weston
Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes
Resilience thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Walker and David Salt
Re-Visioning the Earth by Paul Devereux
*Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Unspoken Hunger by Terry Tempest Williams
Food & Sustainable food systems
Atlas of food by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang
End of Overeating by David A. Kessler
Food in the USA: A Reader edited by Carole M. Counihan
Remaking the North American Food System edited by C. Clare Hinrichs & Thomas A. Lyson
What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Gardening & Plants (see Permaculture too)
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalist & Gardeners by James B. Nardi
Maria Rodale's Organic Gardening
Maritime Northwest Garden Guide
Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge by Russ Jolley
Green building
Nature & Naturalists
Peace & Social Justice
Refusing war, Affirming peace: a History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks by Jeffrey Kovac
Permaculture
Edible Forest Gardens (volume one and two) by Dave Jacke
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay
Permaculture: principles & pathways beyond sustainability by David Holmgren
Plant medicine
Earthwise Herbal (and other titles) by Matthew Wood
Invasive Plant Medicine: the Ecological Benefits & Healing Abilities of Invasives by Timothy Lee Scott
Lost Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West by Michael Moore
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Sacred Plant Medicine by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner