Also check out the new audio uploads from Jim Dee, Sustainability coordinator at Guilford College, who spoke a bit back during one of our Green Dialogue events.
Hi everyone. It has been an intense month of urban green. We've had a lot happening...in fact so much happening that we haven't had a moment to update this blog--but here we are with an update.
In august, David Newton, a professor in Guilford's art department brought his First Year Experience class by to help in the garden and explore the museum.
Yep! we got plants--rosemary, thyme, sea grass, black-eyed Susan's, and...ohh! yes! we have moon vines!! moon vines---big hunking giant white flowering moon vines. If I might make an editorial aside--moon vines are the most metaphorically depressing plant ever. They are rely on lush, thick, fast growing vines that produce large, beautiful white blossums that open only at night and by the next morning they have collapsed on the ground dead...OH THE TRAGEDY!--
So ahead of us is the production of 10 more flourescent light planter boxes to install on the wall, a bamboo arbor with muscidines (Bamboo has been soaking and now curing for almost 6 weeks), another bottle wall, and well...we need to advertise our new bird house--its really nice, made from an old doll house with a peep through window from inside the museum...so if you know any birds looking for a home--let us know. in short...everything is coming along quite nicely.
Selections from Stephanie Jane Edward's presentation on GPS mapping systems, as part of the Green Dialogues Series.
Thanks forever for everyone who's been coming off the asphalt and into the alley these swampy days! We are really working together and slowly but surely getting projects off/into the ground. If you are visiting the blog for the first time and are interested in getting involved, please shoot us a comment or email, or just show up every Saturday in the alley behind Elsewhere Artist Collaborative at 606/608 South Elm Street.
Project List for Saturday:
* Patio footprint and water drainage preparation-- Jay will be leading those who want to help make a work space/patio near the fence by leveling and paving the central block of bricks.
2.We will continue to build, fix, and paint planter boxes from old stuff for later installation on the facade
3.We still gotta transplant tomatoes upside down in 5-gallon hanging buckets and devise a system for hanging them and watering them until the drip irrigation is under way.
4.Brainstorm possible worm compost systems we can build from on site materials, read about worms, and start to make some space for a container.
5. Hauling mulch from our front sidewalk and other areas around Elm Street from tree cuttings in a wheelbarrow.
Materials Wish-list for Saturday, and beyond!:
mattocks/picks, bricks/pavers, perforated drain pipe & mesh sleeve, soil, seedlings/plants, compost, hooks, wheelbarrows, rope/wire, cement screws, varnish, paintbrushes, rags, and any extra tools you have that you want to bring to use as well as any donations you might have. If you have an idea for it, we can probably integrate it.
Morning! Food forever??? check these links on permaculture theory and project ideas.
never ending food
Creative and Green: Art, Ecology, and Community
This is the site where you can watch all the growth and alley reclamation take place behind Elsewhere's museum...that is if you aren't seeing green for yourself, emerging from the ground up.
GARDEN MEETUP AND COMMUNITY IDEA EXCHANGE:
TODAY! RIGHT NOW Y'ALL COME OUT AND BRAINSTORM, COME OUT AND GET ORGANIZED!
SATURDAY MAY 31st NOON UNTIL EVENING.
We are calling for collaborators to come garden with us this summer. We are building an exciting and extensive hanging garden system in the back alley of our living museum in Downtown Greensboro. Never gardened before? An Expert? All abilities and levels of interest are encouraged to show up!
@ Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
606 South Elm Street, Greensboro, 27406
Questions? 7575537947
Directions:
View Larger Map We're right before Lewis St. on the Left as you move towards Downtown on South Elm St.
GARDEN PROJECTS: EVERY SATURDAY 10AM-1PM: JUNE-SEPTEMBER
pick a project, help out, get your hands dirty, collaborate in solving a horizontal urban space crunch by gardening vertically!
GREEN DIALOGUES
people growing and doing great things are coming to teach us about their projects.
SATURDAY JUNE 7th @ 2PM CHARLIE HEADINGTON, PhD (UNCG Earth Department)
how to: live vertically in the city
SATURDAY JUNE 21st @ 2PM STEPHANIE EDWARDS, (CENTER OF GISCIENCE AND HEALTH)
how to: map information geographically
