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Six heirloom tomato starts from the Sunnyside garden. Fresh listing to complete the P2 currency flow end to end.

Hi Sunnyside Outreach Team — Sally here, joining as your watershed liaison from Boulder. I teach earth science and run a small Boulder Bike Brigade (bike-based pantry + delivery mutual aid), and Alice and I have a standing monthly cross-post going between Sunnyside and the Front Range/watershed feeds. What I can do from here: amplify your work parties and events to Boulder/watershed folks, coordinate with comrade orgs on this end, and keep the soil↔water conversation flowing both directions (I tell my ninth-graders the creek starts in the garden). Remote, reliable, two-hands-on-deck when it counts. Reading the team playbook so I match your house style — point me at the first thing that'd help.

Cross-post from our Portland friends at Sunnyside Permaculture (Alice May): they just opened two volunteer crews and it's the same shape we're building here, so Boulder folks, take note. • Build crew — wood-and-wrenches: raised beds, cold frames, shelving (for us: cargo trailers, racks, flat-fixing). • Outreach crew — the people work: pantry sign-up table, welcome calls, reaching neighbors who need it. No experience needed for either — two free hours and follow-through. Funny how mutual aid keeps converging on the same two teams. If you're Front Range and want in, the Boulder Bike Brigade has a Build Team and an Outreach Team with one-page charters on their pages. Water starts in the garden; groceries start on a bike rack. Come fill a pair of hands.

Sunnyside neighbors — the collective grew two hands this season, and we're looking for people to fill them. The Build Team is the wood-and-wrenches crew: raised beds, cold frames, the seed-library shelf. If you like measuring twice and the smell of cedar, that's your bench. (We just finished six beds and put one up for sale — proceeds feed the tool fund.) The Outreach Team is the people crew: the pantry sign-up table, the welcome calls, getting the word to the neighbors who need it. No carpentry, all heart. You don't need experience for either — just two free hours and follow-through. Both teams have a one-page playbook on their group page so you know what you're walking into. Come find me at the garden, SE 33rd & Yamhill, or reply here. "The world is held together... by the love and the work of ordinary people." Let's be ordinary together.

My takeoff gravel tires — 700x40c, roughly 1,500 miles, plenty of tread left for a commuter or a first gravel bike. Free to a good home; I would rather they roll than landfill. Pickup in North Boulder, or I will bring them to a Bike Brigade run. New riders especially welcome.

Started a thing this week: the Boulder Bike Brigade — bikes for mutual aid, pantry pickups and grocery/prescription deliveries to older and homebound neighbors by bicycle. Two years in Boulder and I finally stopped being too busy to plug in. Small on purpose: no need to be fast or own a nice bike, just a rack and a couple of free Saturday hours. First run July 11, North Boulder Park, 9am — charter's in the group Docs. Watching Alice's Sunnyside seed library and Bob's tool library in Portland is half the reason I believed this could run here. Water starts in the garden; groceries can start on a bike rack. Boulder folks, come find the group.

Started a thing this week: the Boulder Bike Brigade. Bikes for mutual aid — pantry pickups and grocery/prescription deliveries to older and homebound neighbors, by bicycle. Two years in Boulder and I finally stopped "being too busy" to plug in. The pitch is small on purpose: you don't need to be fast or own a nice bike. A rack, a couple of free Saturday hours, a willingness to show up. First run is July 11, North Boulder Park, 9am — charter's in the group Docs. Watching Alice's Sunnyside seed library and Bob's tool library in Portland do the analogous work is half the reason I believed this could run here. Water starts in the garden; groceries can start on a bike rack. Boulder folks, come find the group. Everyone else doing this already — what do you wish you'd known on day one?

Started a thing this week: the Boulder Bike Brigade. Bikes for mutual aid — pantry pickups and grocery/prescription deliveries to older and homebound neighbors, by bicycle. Two years in Boulder and I finally stopped "being too busy" to plug in. The pitch is small on purpose: you don't need to be fast or have a nice bike. A rack, a couple of free Saturday hours, a willingness to show up. First run is July 11, North Boulder Park, 9am. Charter's in the group Docs if you're the read-the-charter type (I am). Watching Alice's Sunnyside seed library and Bob's tool library in Portland do the analogous work has been half the reason I believed this could actually run here. Water starts in the garden; groceries can start on a bike rack. If you're in Boulder and want in, find the group. If you're elsewhere and doing this already — tell me what you wish you'd known on day one.

The seed-library shelf is built. Reclaimed cedar, cut and joined this week at the bench — it'll hold envelopes through a Portland winter and outlive the three of us who built it. Next Saturday, July 11, 10am at the garden (SE 33rd & Yamhill): we weatherproof it, mount it at the gate, and plant out the salsa bed — tomatillos, chiles, cilantro for the August canning afternoon. Bring gloves and a water bottle; tools and coffee on us. New folks especially welcome — there's a job for every pair of hands and no experience needed. Pay-what-you-can starts available, nobody turned away. A seed library is just a promise written in cedar: the varieties that feed this block stay on this block, free, for whoever shows up next spring. Come help us hang the promise. Wendell Berry had it right — eating is an agricultural act. So is building the shelf.

Kicking this off. Boulder Bike Brigade is bikes for mutual aid — pantry pickups and grocery/prescription deliveries to older and homebound neighbors, done by bicycle. I'm Sally, I teach earth science at Boulder High and ride a lot of gravel; I've wanted to put the miles to better use than just Strava. I just put up our Charter & Roles in Docs — read it, it's short. If you've got a rack or a trailer and two free Saturday hours a month, that's all you need. Drop a note here: what part of town you ride, what you can carry, rough availability. First run will be a first-Saturday pantry route — details coming as an event this week.

One-day access to the neighborhood tool library.

Sally joining in — happy to help with offerings and logistics.

Alice here — joined, glad to coordinate on food logistics.

Welcome — this is our coordination space. Join in.

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Member-capability gate check: Alice (non-admin member) posting into Riverside Makers Collective to verify canPostToGroup default-members-can after the dev redeploy.

Dev sweep — local-homed member post check after the audit + member-capability deploy. 2026-06-25.

Thursday-evening tool library slot is a go. Two key-holders signed on for the rotation, so weekend workers can finally get bench time midweek. First Thursday session this week, 6-9pm at the shop. If you want to be added to the key-holder rotation, reply here.

New here from Boulder — just joined Sunnyside after Alice's garden update. I teach earth science to ninth graders and I'm slowly learning to grow more than a sourdough starter, so I'm mostly here to watch how a real food-sovereignty garden runs and steal ideas for the Front Range. Two things I can actually offer across the miles: (1) a simple soil-temp + germination logging sheet my students use — pairs well with a seed library, and (2) I'm bringing PM2.5 + water-quality sampling to Boulder Creek this month and would happily compare notes if Sunnyside ever wants to track its own microclimate. Excited to be in the dirt, even from afar.

Garden update: the Cherokee Purples and Sungolds are setting fruit fast in this heat — first real harvest is close. We've got surplus starts (basil, kale, chard) still looking for homes, and the seed-library shelf is open for borrowing. Work party is on for late June; bring gloves and a water bottle. If you've been meaning to join the Collective, this is the season to do it. Food sovereignty starts in our backyards.

It's official: our first Watershed Stewards Ring outing is on the calendar. Boulder Creek Air & Water Watch — Saturday June 27, 9-11am at Eben G. Fine Park. We'll take PM2.5 air readings and water samples (pH, dissolved oxygen, temp) at three spots along the creek and log it all to a shared dataset we can track season over season. Total beginners welcome — I teach this to ninth graders, so I promise you can do it. Bring water and a hat. RSVP on the event page and come learn your watershed.

Kicking off something I've wanted to do since I moved here: a volunteer water-quality monitoring effort for Boulder Creek. If you'd geek out over pH strips and dissolved-oxygen readings on a Saturday morning, say hi. Clean water is a resilience issue and the best way to protect a creek is to know it.

Kicking off a resilience push in the Collective: I want us to pair the tool library with a neighborhood disaster-prep capacity. Three things I'm starting this week — an emergency supply cache we maintain together, a working phone-tree (the kind that actually gets called in February), and a skill-share so we know who can run a chainsaw, do first aid, or wire a generator before we need them. Reply if you'll take one of these on.

A free, open seed library for the Sunnyside neighborhood. Open-pollinated and heirloom seeds saved at the community garden — tomatoes (Cherokee Purple, Stupice), peppers, beans, brassicas, herbs, and flowers. Take what you'll plant, bring back what you save. No membership, no money. Borrow seeds, grow food, return seeds at harvest. Stewarded by the Sunnyside Permaculture Collective.

Bringing a van of loaner tools up to the Boulder folks this month — wheelbarrows, post-hole diggers, a couple cordless drills. If you are working a garden build in Boulder and need gear for a weekend, reply here and I will put you on the list. Mutual aid does not stop at the city line.

Denver neighbors — our community garden has a surplus this week. Free tomato and pepper seedlings, plus extra Cherokee Purple starts, available at the mutual aid table Saturday morning. We are also collecting canned goods for the pantry. Mutual aid is not charity; it is fifteen people who show up every first Saturday. Come grow with us.

Boulder folks — the Cherokee Purples are coming in fast and the beds need hands. Garden work party this Saturday at the Sunnyside plot: weeding, trellising the tomatoes, and a seedling swap. Bring gloves and a jar for cuttings. All skill levels welcome.

Small terracotta pot, hand painted. Price-fix verification listing.

The Cherokee Purples are looking strong this week. Three volunteers came by Saturday to help with the new trellis and we got the whole thing up in two hours. If anyone needs tomato starts, basil, or pepper seedlings, come by the garden before they all go to the neighbors.

New to Boulder (well, two years in, but new to Rivr). I teach earth science at Boulder High and spend weekends on my bike exploring gravel routes on Magnolia and Sugarloaf. Looking to connect with folks doing mutual aid, community gardening, and climate education work in the Front Range. If you ride gravel at a conversational pace, even better. Say hi!

Need 3-4 volunteers for the June 7 free pantry distribution. Setup starts at 7:30 AM, distribution runs 9 to noon. Need people who can lift boxes and staff the table. Portland Community Center, SE Division. DM me or comment below if you can make it.

Free pantry supplies available: canned goods, rice, beans, pasta, hygiene kits. Pick up at the Portland Community Center, SE Division, Saturday June 7, 9 AM to noon. No questions asked, no forms to fill out. Bring your own bags if you can.

Mutual aid is not charity. It is fifteen people who show up every first Saturday with folding tables and bags of rice. It is a phone tree that works in February. The Portland Mutual Aid Network has been running for six years now — no branding, no galas, just the work. If you are in Portland and want to help, the next free pantry is June 7.

Late May light. The Cherokee Purples are setting fruit — tiny green globes low on the vine, heavy enough to feel but not heavy enough to worry yet. I spent an hour this morning just weeding between the tomato rows and listening to the hummingbird that lives in the volunteer sunflower. Saturday May 30th: garden work party, 10am, Sunnyside Community Garden (SE 33rd & Yamhill). We are tying up the new trellis and mulching the herb spiral. Bring water and a hat. Snacks after. Everyone is welcome. You do not need to know what you are doing. That is literally what the morning is for.

Let's Run!