The Environmental Center

Happy Hour in the Garden - Bend (April 1st cancelled due to weather)
2025-04-01 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Environmental Center, 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR, 97703
Come join us in the Kansas Avenue Learning Garden in Downtown Bend for Happy Hour in the Garden! This is an ongoing volunteer drop in event, where you provide the help and we provide beverages. No experience necessary, family friendly event. All tools and tasks will be provided, but feel free to bring your own gloves if you like. No need to RSVP, come for an hour or both. Dates are currently scheduled for the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 4-6pm, March through May. Stay tuned for future Happy Hour opportunities!

Farming While Black: Reclaiming Land and Agricultural Heritage - Film Screening and Discussion
2025-04-08 17:30 - 19:30 | OR
In this 75 min. feature-length documentary, Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, reflects on the plight of Black farmers in the United States. From the height of Black-owned farms at 14% in 1910 to less than 2% today. Leah and her Soul Fire family help propel a rising generation finding strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – and its potential to save the planet.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, visit cocc.edu/snv

Location
Wille Hall, Coats Campus Center, COCC Bend Campus, 97703

Happy Hour in the Garden - Bend
2025-04-15 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-05-06 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-05-20 16:00 - 18:00 | The Environmental Center, 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR, 97703

Community Garden Work Party
2025-09-27 10:00 - 12:00 | 19th St Learning Garden, 345 NW 19th St, Redmond, OR, 97756, United States
Save the date!
Help us dig into the new 19th Street Learning Garden we are developing in partnership with RootedHomes. Details of help needed and tasks performed to be updated as we get closer to the date!
Email denise to get on the email list to be notified of events for this new learning garden in Redmond.
