Briefly Updated + Edible Education [video]

Meeting changes: 

• Today's Community Garden Workday and Fall Planning session at Mountain Arts on Broadway site has been postponed to October, but Joan E, Kristine and Addie will be at the garden around 10am to do some tidying up and planning extended beds. Volunteers and visitors, as ever, are welcome. Today might be a good day to drop by and ask questions.

• Due to the Shaffer Hotel closing Thursday (no more Packs Family at the helm), the iCreate board will meet at Lenora's.  Since the meeting is not being held in a public location, this one will not, as per usual policy, be open to the public. If you have questions about iCreate or wish to suggest items for the agenda, call Kay Stillion at 847-2301. Agenda items include: music outreach donations and thank you notes, new location for Mountainair classes; grant plans and deadlines, community garden and SEEDS project

Associated Links: I embed links just in case anyone reading is interested in following them. Today's links added to the video notice strike me as being of particular interest. The Edible Schoolyard is a lovely site, definitely worth a visit, and certainly related to SEEDS, the community outreach and sustainability components of the iCreate mission. Joan Embree will certainly be familiar with Chez Panisse and its foundation.

UCBerkeley 

Edible Education: The Politics of Food

Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in Dept. of Nutrition at NYU 

Sponsored by The EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT with support from Stephen Silberstein and the KNIGHT FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM Live Stream and sponsored by BON APPETIT Management Company Instructors MICHAEL POLLAN and NIKKI HENDERSON (People's Grocery).... More

Community Garden Notes

~ update on and wish list for the community garden and more. An iCreate post is past due, but I'm hoping waiting more of a report on the recent fundraising concert at Off-Center Arts, so I can give the performers their due after the fact.

In the meantime, however, there are community garden updates and resources to share: a neat video (embedded below) on "How To Recycle Household Items In The Garden"; next Torrance County Extension workshop; KGI (Kitchen Garden International) and Peak Moment TV ("locally reliant living for challenging times") newsletters; links to a few YouTube gardening and horticulture video channels. There are so many of them, that with a large screen monitor, we could run a regular gardening and permaculture film night - bring your own popcorn.

More videos on NMSU Extension's YouTube ACES channel and iTunes U, as well as The Dirt Doctor's channel


Community Garden Wish List

• growing containers. 
• good top soil
• compost or manure
• help setting up new garden
• source for bales of straw or oat hay for straw bale gardening

straw bale garden rows image from MRCOG

 Backyard Growers and Community Gardens page 

Bring donations and help to Mountainair Arts, East Broadway & South Ross on next garden workday ~ the last one was Saturday May 13 at 3pm, Time is subject to change with summer temperatures. Contact: Joan Embree, housemaven@comcast.net, 847-2324

Newsletters

• Peak Moment, May 2011
• Kitchen Garden May 2011

The next Claunch-Pinto SWCD sponsored Extension Workshop ~ eagerly anticipated ~ will be June 25,  on water harvesting, time and location TBA. More details when available, perhaps accompanied by links to relevant handouts and even a video or so on rain barrels and harvesting rain water.