Headed To Maine!

HEY!
Thanks to Miss Heather from Newyorkshitty.com :
http://www.newyorkshitty.com/?p=28014

And someone lovely from www.brownstoner.com :

from http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2009/11/closing_bell_gr_8.php


We Have PRESS! Thanks people. How nice!

Saturday the 7th I am going to be at the park for a few hours collecting the wood and placing it in the non trip area...SUNDAY I am headed to Maine.
Please note the link to Fern Hill Farm...http://www.fernhillfarm.com/


I will be learning the ropes of this Bed & Breakfast with Goats. Thats right...the Jensen's have goats and make Goat Cheese for markets near and around Portland. I will be learning how they do this for future farm hand work there.

Please stay tuned for uploads from their farm.

Thanks Wendy Bellerman for putting the Jensen's and myself together!

10.29.2009 is the Fundraiser for The Learning Farm! at Habana Outpost!

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Volunteer Day

Today we got help from a crew of Wells Fargo volunteers. As well, we had a guest appearance from a special someone special who so kindly helped us create the raised beds. These boxes will contain wonderful soil combined with manure from the bronx zoo, compost, soil, and more compost. Mulching will be placed on top of the mixture over the winter, allowing all organic components to create a super soil.

Here are some pics of the raised beds. More pics of the clean up progress, and water wall tomorrow or the next.

Some Plans

just some of the plans.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE...Just a Start...

Cobblestones removed from this tree area....and placed them there(pic on right) for H2O/soil run off prevention.

Tuesday August 4th 2009! Ground BREAKING!

ALL OF MY PHOTOS WERE CORRUPT!
Thanks, however to Michael, he saved the artifacts we dug up in the grassy knoll, albeit some empty mini mini ziplock baggies in brilliant colors, and a few 6pack can plastic rings...

Anyways...tilling and trying to even out the grassy knoll, keeping a bit of a slope for excess water runoff....

We destrangled two of the trees from the cobblestones that were so graceously placed by someone yesrs ago. These were moved to create a water trap at the end of the soil. This is a practice used in some arid areas, or areas where the soil has been compacted so tightly that nothing soaks in. The rocks at the end of the run-off line are in place to catch some of the organic matter and water, which simply runs off without this.

Hopefully one of us will go tomorrow and take pics for the blog...what has been done already is so beautiful. amazing what you can make from what is already there...observing and being open to what is around you...finding use!
That is what this mission is about!

Friday, June 26th...Checkin out the park and takin some measurements for approximate rain water accumulation

need rest now, but tomorrow will update blog with rain catch potential equations and approximations I worked out on Friday, for the park's central circle alone. On wednesday i should have the expected accumulation from the rooftop spout!

Glass Break and Make Time!

Come Tuesday, June 30th at 7:30pm to Urban Rustic, in Brooklyn...with your crafty pants on, and your favorite shaped and colored, used glass bottles to create drinking glasses or vases, and in turn, a water funner for the parks future rain water recycling system!

Mission

Rain water recycling...re-use of items *about to be trashed...

Creating and recreating uses for items many people want to throw away...

FUTURE SITE OF THE HERB CIRCLE...LEARNING TO PLAN A WONDERFUL SELF IRRIGATING RAINWATER SYSTEM !!!

I CAN'T WAIT TO START THIS PART: DELEGATING AND CIRCULATING OF WATER...

MEXT O,AGE IS WHERE I WILL COLLECT A LARGE PORTION OF THE RAIN WATER...

MORE AREA FOR ASPHALT REMOVAL- ALSO AREA FOR FLAT BEDS...NOTE THE METAL BENCH SUPPORTS! PERFECT FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE RAISED BEDS

First thing is first - Ripping up the asphalt to help some trees

WHERE GROUND BREAKING WILL BEGIN