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Courtesy Hollywood Farmers Market

Plum Tree Jam’s Miranda Rake is an artisan jam maker and new mother with a six-month old baby. When she’s not working, she’s been watching news reports of US authorities separating children from their refugee parents at the Southern border and then housing them in camps while prosecuting those refugee parents.

The images appalled her and she wanted to do something, so she did.

On June 10, she donated 50 percent of her sales from her daily take at the King Farmers Market and donated them to We Belong Together, an initiative that aims to seek better treatment for mothers and children.

This week, she’s back at it, and this time she’s bringing her friends.

From a Facebook post she posted just yesterday:

“THIS WEEKEND! At the Hollywood Farmers Market on Saturday, the King Farmers Market on Sunday and the Pioneer Square Farmers Market on Monday, we and many of our fellow farmers market vendors will be donating 20% of our sales to the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, to join their fight to STOP our government from separating kids from their parents at the U.S. border.”

Other vendors who’ll also be donating a portion of their sales to the YCICR include Hot Mama Salsa PDX, SMALL Baking Co., Ground Up PDX, Bliss Nut Butters, Stone Barn Brandyworks, and Red Truck Homestead. Umi Organic will also get in on the giving action by donating a dollar from every sale it makes.

Here are the details on those farmers markets:

Hollywood Farmers Market: 8 am to 1 pm on NE Hancock between 44th and 45th
King Farmers Market: 10 am to 2 pm at the corner of NE 7th and Wygant
Portland Farmers Market at the Square: 10 am to 2 pm at Pioneer Square

If you’re a vendor interested in helping out, contact Rake through her website.

As for the rest of you, you know what to do: Get out there and resist and, as weird as it sounds to say, shop.