May 2024 Member of the Month: Catherine Wilkins

ABOUT OUR MEMBER OF THE MONTH Full name: Catherine Wilkins Pronouns: she/her Biography: Born and raised in Eugene, doing the urban homesteading/frugal thing before it was trendy. I worked for St. Vinnies then became a stay-at-home parent. I like learning about...

Mike’s Mondays Archives – 04/01/2019

Mike’s Monday for April 1st, 2019   THIS POST IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE, SORRY.   Let me first off apologize for not blogging for the past few weeks, health and job problems caused me to space it.   In the intervening days, the soil and planter box...

Mike’s Mondays Archive – 03/11/2019

Mike’s Monday for Mar. 11th, 2019.    IT’S BEEN A QUIET WEEK IN LAKE WOBEGON (err… I mean the Gleaners)   After the big news in last week’s blog post, today’s seems downright antithetical. I’ve checked the mail twice since the big haul last Monday and...

Mike’s Mondays Archive – 03/04/2019

Mike’s Monday for Mar. 4th,2019.    MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!    Part of my job with the Gleaners is to check the post office box once a week. Most weeks, it’s empty. But probably because of the weather, neither Margaret or I checked it last week and we had...

Mike’s Mondays Archive – 02/25/2019

Mike’s Monday for Feb. 25th,2019.    Happy Snow Day. Snow can be fun and beautiful But it can also be destructive. The drop sites on Dewey St. and on Canterbury (off River Road) are closed until further notice because of snow damage. We hope they will be...

Mike’s Mondays Archive – 02/18/2019

Mike’s Monday for Feb. 18th,2019.    Good Evening Gleaners. This week I’d like to lead off with our most important item. We still have an opening for the office of TREASURER. The deadline to send a letter of candidacy to our President, Brandy Collier...