AGRICULTURE continued from page 3 Care and Maintenance of Common Household and Office Plants: A Home Gardener's Handbook, $1.20 from: Superintendent of Documents Government Printing Office ' Washington, DC 20402 Order No. 024-005-00536-6. From The Green Scene Prograi of the National Parks Service. Covers light water, soil and temperature requirements of 24 kinds of common indoor plants. Rotations, Organic Matter and Vege- ; tables, by Downs, Jacobson and Waggoner, Bulletin No. 220, free from: The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station N,ew Haven; CT Another of the long list of technical reports available from these folks. This one is an 8-year study comparing nutritional content and crop yield be- . tween commercially fertilized, continuously grown cabbage and spinach vs. vegetables grown in 5 rotations with green ·manure. Illustrated with tables. - ' ,Northwest F_ood Federation About a month ago people from around the Northwest involved in food cooperatives, truckers, producers and growers, got together at Ellensburg, Washington, and began the foundations for a communications network that will allow for a more unified distribution of food from small farmers to cooperatively-owned or small retaii'outlets. By the half dozen different reports, the meeting was a great success. Some of the Prout research group, out of Seattle, used a simulated map situation to allow people to see the special communication problems of different regions. The map was a room where people sat grouped into their appropriate geographic areas and distances away from one another. It became clear-at least by those represented, that (a) Portland was missing, and (b) most communication was going on in the Puget Sound area and east and west in Washington, with Eugene feeling very isolated. So, the next meeting, .to implement the economic; base for-a federation, will take place February 27-29 in Eugene, sponsored by the Hoedads and the Prout Collective. At that time, Mark Musick of Tilth and Brian Livingston of Communitype will put toge~her a dir<:ctory of co-ops, ·growers, truckers and wholesalers in the Northwest. RAIN, in collaboration with People's Food Warehouse in Portland, sent along the missing Portland informatipn. If you have ideas, names of people who should know about the federation, write to us (if you 're in this area) or Tilth (P.O. Box 2382, Olympia, WA 98507). Oregon Historical Society Two Community Gardening. .Workshops To those who hold our resources in • common: iTwo community gardening workshops are being planned this winter for all persons interested in the social, administrational, or op'erational aspects of Community Gardens. Subjects covered at the workshops will include: some of the backgrol..lnd behind the Community Gardening movement, the exp·eriences some of the local agencies have had, a.i:id tips on acquiring land, preparing the soil, fertilizer,.water systems and arrangements with agencies and organitations. Monday,.Feb. 2, 1976,·9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lane.County Extension Service Conf. Rm·. 950 West 13th Avenue Eugene, OR 97401 Contact: Marshall Landman Eugene·Parks and Recreation 777 Pearl Street Eugene, OR 97401 503-687-5333 Friday, Feb. 6, -1976, 9: 30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Music Center 3350 S.E. Francis (1 bl. south of Powell) Portland, OR Contact: Leslie Pohl Bureau of Parks and Recreation 1107 S.W. 4th Avenue Portland, OR 9720~ 503-248-471.7 RAIN Page 7 Please help spread'the word around about these conferences through·your publications and by word of mouth. Thanks. Yours for a greener,· more self-sufficient world, Marshall Landman Eugene Comm. Gardens Parks & Recreatio~ Dept. Rm. 105, 777 Pearl St. Eugene, OR 97401 503-687-5 33 3 • ERCHITECTURE ) Creating Modern Furniture, Dona Z. Meilach, Crown Publishers, Inc., 197 5, $6.95. - An unusually fine combination of wellillustrated how-to information on innovative furniture making and an amazing photographic survey of outstanding examples of hand-crafted modern furniture. Fantasy furniture straight from M.C. Escher's etchings: beautifully jointed Japanese tables; hollowed-tree stump ·chairs; refined glass and fiberglass furniture; sofas shaped like Marilyn Monroe's lips; giant cabbages, sea anemo·- nes and catcher's mitts to sit in; handcar.:ved doors; pigeon-hole desks; and walnut rocking chairs. Shows how to make beautiful things you never thought . possible! Energy Conservation in Buildings, Report R40: 1975, 49 pp., from: Svensk Byggtjanst Box 1403 ' S-111 84 Stockholm Sweden A pamphlet in Swedish with an English summary, proposes an easy method of checking the profitability of measures . taken to c::onserve energy in ~xisting build\ngs. Energy Conservation Program ·Guide for Commercial Buildings, by Louis A. de Latour, P.E., Oct. 1975, NRE-PE75-2, single copies free from: • Project Engineering Section D e p t . . o f Conservation State Land & Natural Res. Bldg. P.O. Box 44156 i Baton Rouge, LA 70804 504-389-5161 One of.the nice things ·about this item is a comprehensive, annotated bibliography on energy conservation publications and computer programs focused on commercial buildings; another is the almost layman level of explanation which pervades, increasing its utility and, finally, separation of conservation measures into those needing little or no capital outlay and those which mean a major expenditure. Continued on page 10
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