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	Peace Shieldused sled and spray paint by Jordan Liketheriver on display in Opening Reception - please join us ! SJC +ART at DRAWING ROOMS all month at Victory Hall
	Peace Shield by Jordan Liketheriver

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Permaculture at Bright Street Community Garden

As part of SJC's Urban Farming and Gardening Workshop Series, permaculture extraordinaire Wanda Knapik came to JC to give a demonstration at an underutilized lot on Bright Street for growing food using permaculture principles. It was a great turn out despite the threat of rain. Wanda started the event with some T'ai Chi to get the energy flowing and to keep us warm. Then we discussed the energies that a garden needs: sun, water, and wind. The site orientation is perfect for sun exposure, but with out a water connection we needed to get creative. Some ideas included the use rain barrels that collect water from the neighboring buildings, or getting help from the Frank Conwell Middle School next door.

Pat Byrne and Anne McTernan are the masterminds behind this community garden. Pat, who lives next door to the empty lot, took the initiative to contact the developer to find out if they could do something with it and he agreed. They want to grow vegetables and flowers, have a place to sit and relax, and maybe even show movies.

If anyone has some chickens, the garden would like to borrow them for a weekend to clean up the ground cover.

If you want to help in the creation of this wonderful garden contact Pat at BrightStreetGarden (at) gmail (dot) com

Green Map in the news

The Hudson Reporter interviewed some SJC members during a meeting at Green Map headquarters in NYC. This is great publicity for the green mapping effort. We need the whole community to get involved in adding their bits of information to the map to really get the whole picture. The benefit of having a public built green map is that we can use that information to find locations that require attention, or to let others know where there are cool spots to check out. For example, if everyone who has had their basement flood in the past year put a hazard icon on the map, we could see where the worst instances are and consider them for rain garden locations. Even better, the map can be used as evidence to show the city officials where trouble spots are and push them to resolve issues.

Knowledge is power, so everyone please pitch in and lend the green map your voice.

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