Constellation Farm is run by Jonathan Berger and Lauren Schriber. They are a small scale producer of seasonally grown, certified organic vegetables, garlic, herbs, and cut flowers. They tend two acres of beautiful flowers and tasty vegetables in Independence Valley, in Rochester, Washington. Inspired and awed by the incredible wildness and beauty of the place that surrounds them they strive to be as environmentally responsible as possible. Beautiful food grown by beautiful people.

Praxis, as a term, means to join thought with action in a way that makes the two inseparable and in order to transform the collective world that we all inhabit. Praxis Farm run by Nathan Freiburger is a diversified vegetable farm committed to helping build local food autonomy. This means producing for communities (and specifically NE Portland) and neighborhoods, distributing in those neighborhoods, living in the neighborhood, and keeping money, jobs, and goods circulating in those neighborhoods.

A lovely bakery and cafe located in Kenton neighborhood. Serving incredible baked goods, breakfast, lunch and coffee. Posies has been a gracious host to my floral pop-ups as well as, a flower share host site.

Virginia Marting is a Latina visual artist exploring different mediums and techniques. Tattoo artist, printmaker, and puppeteer. She works both individually and collectively.

Her work is inspired by nature and our relationship with it. She likes to draw botanicals and enjoys flowers and researching about them. As a kid she liked to pick flowers from the neighbors yards and as a young adult every week she used to go for a big bouquet at the market to bring to her mom and her grandma. Today she takes care of her garden.

Through illustration, she dives into concepts around the environment and social justice.

She creates as a way of battling daily injustices and tries to bring awareness through art. As an immigrant she stands with her community for the right to live in the place that we decide to call home.

Virginia was born in Argentina, and moved to Portland, Oregon in her late 20’s in 2007.

Printmaking gave me a collaborative visual voice with which to express my deep love for the social as well as the earth body. Can we dream ourselves into consciousness? Can we come home to a reciprocating relationship with the land and love? Some say that our visual world assimilates instantly into out subconscious. And so it is that maybe art has the power to move the emotions that shift thought. And we know that thought is the birth of all action, actions which create our worlds. We are land and animal and consciousness pulsing vibrant and alive just below the surface of our concrete and our pain. We are nature herself in all its Experimental forms

“Nature is queer, non-binary. Diverse and divine. (In them, I see myself reflected. If I stay open, they feel their reflection, too.)

I look to the natural world for meaningfulness, for answers about my place in it. When I’m able to let the tension fall away, which happens more and more with beloveds and in beloved places, they reveal a nonverbal, but clear and eternal language. Mm—not reveals, lets on.

My work is most inspired by inter-being connection, across people, across places, across species. How do we relate to one another in a moment—share and exchange through simultaneous and also constant translation? Being bicultural and bilingual, I hold the spaces where meaning crystallizes and is co-created dearly. Where tongues bridge and rivers fork.

To wrap beautiful flowers, grown by sun, earth, water, and care, the song “Hasta la raíz” by the incomparable @natalialafourcade dawned on me, wrapped me in it like the shawl of mi abuelita. In her words, I feel home and I’ve translated her poetry to english as it speaks to me, each word chosen and set by hand.

I believe in the educations that can be found here in the print shop, on the forest floor, sung across wetlands. Where there is rhythm, pattern, stories, and dreams to be well-known if we key in.”

daniela is a queer quiltrx, a transdisciplinary artist and educator whose work blends traditional print processes with bilingual poetry + social practice. They center queer and marginal spaces to facilitate connection beyond borders in individual text-based work, collaborative practices, and community book arts.

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“My relationship with nature is one of deep connection and anxiety. I find inspiration and understanding in nature in a way that I don’t find anywhere else. But I also experience anguish at witnessing the devastation we are causing and knowing that some of the changes that are happening might be irreversible. I spend a lot of time observing and drawing nature. I consider my art practice an ecosystem of ideas, methods and mediums and I have learned to think like that as a result of observing relationships in the natural world. I am currently working in a project with the Mayan community of my neighborhood -Cully; and on a series of drawings.”

“im guessing my relation with nature has an ancestral origin for sure, considering that what it touches our feets is motherland , a mother that feels, breathes, feeds,nourishes and heart beats every second with us. I think we all have an intimate connection with nature,somehow. Nature for me, is meant to be wild , so nature wants me in the same way, our interactions don't match in this scale of time and system regulations. We both find spaces for feel each other for being listened to and grounded. I love this pachita so much.”

how nature influences my work .

the moments that i'm very well conceded with my natural instinct everything flows, blows , blooms , pumps it on creativity, in a way that feels just pretty good in my body , without the pressure from the outside criticism and expectations, Feel and being good in our bodies in our spirits , is pure art manifestation , it allows nature come to us , it helps us to feel truly rested , truly renew. truly us.

I wish I could be connected all the time with my natural instinct , but it is challenging sometimes under the accelerated rhythm of actual times,and information saturation. Nature supports me in finding the balance, transforming my fear, my pain into art, into beauty.

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My name is Icky and also Alec. I am a part time hospital nurse, part time practitioner of harm reduction and street medicine, and not much time for anything else these days. As such, I've been thinking and working more with the local flora of the body these days than anything else. Aside from bacteria my personal taxonomy and knowledge of plants is limited and roughly described as: plants to eat, flowers, trees, green plants, and harmful plants. I know a bit more about trees than anything else, mostly because I like drawing them. In the last couple of years I've been making salves to support my work in harm reduction and am greatly indebted to the plants that help facilitate that: rosemary, calendula, oregon grape, yarrow, echinacea, etc. This print celebrates those plants.