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Three Sisters: Gardens for All Seasons
Spring
into Eco-Gardening with These Upcoming Free Greenbelt Events!
Three
Sisters:
Gardens
for All Seasons
Make Earth Day
Every Day! No really, we mean it! And we'll get you started with a dance
performance by Alight
Dance Theater as well as a seed
starting demo by our expert gardeners. This event is great for
families! No
RSVP required. Free and open to the community.
See
below for performance dates and locations.
Greenbelt
Food Forest Exploration and Workday
Saturday,
April 19th (10 AM - 12:30 PM)
We bet you didn't know
figs, passion fruit, hazelnuts, and more can be grown inside
Maryland! And you won't believe how many wild plants are edible (and
delicious)! You can learn about it all with our Greenbelt Food Forest
Project. Forest gardening is based upon the principles of permaculture,
and this type of ecologically based, self-fertilizing agriculture
practice is proving to produce extremely high yields of crops. We'll be
getting everything ready for the spring with some mulching, invasive
species removal (that's our fancy way of saying "weeding"), and
planting.
Please be prepared for
outdoor work by bringing a reusable water bottle, close-toed shoes, long
pants, and work gloves. Also, if you have any tools such as loppers,
pruners, bow saws, shovels, metal rakes, pitchforks, or other gardening
equipment, please bring them along (be sure to write your name on
them). RSVP
is required to Alex via email or call 240-542-2168.
See below for date and location.
[May
31, 1:30-4:30 PM] Garden Workday/Alight
Dance Theater ~ Garden maintenance, open Dress Rehearsal
of Gardens for All Seasons
***[June
1, 2-4 PM]*** Three Sisters: Gardens for All Seasons by
Alight Dance Theater
***[April 26, 2-4]***
Three Sisters: Gardens
for All Seasons by Alight Dance Theater
[April
19, 10-12:30 pm] Food Forest Exploration
and Workday
These
events are being coordinated by the Chesapeake Education Arts and
Research Society (CHEARS). More information can be found on our website.
Cleaning
out your garage? Do you have extra garden tools?
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Event Updates: A Smashing Success!
Stormwater Solutions: Rain Barrels and More
Our Stormwater Solutions
workshop was a smashing success! Over 50 community members attended
to learn about water pollution problems in urban areas and what ordinary
citizens can do to make a real difference in their communities by
following some simple (and fun) best management practices. Workshop
participants learned about rain gardens and bioswales, painted and
decorated their own rain barrels, explored an interactive watershed
model, got a behind-the-scenes tour of Greenbelt Public Works Building
with their cutting-edge green building features, and we even had live
demonstrations of how to install rain barrels in College Park and at
Greenbelt Housing Inc!
Did
you miss our workshop? That's okay, we will be putting all of our
presenter's slideshows on the web soon.
CHEARS
would like to thank the Bagel Place of College Park for
their donations of 5 dozen bagels and to the weatherman for bringing us
60 degree weather with sunshine!
The Stormwater Solutions workshop was a collaborative
effort between CHEARS and the following
organizations:
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Thank you for a successful tree planting!
10-Acre Tour and Tree Planting
On March 8th, CHEARS partnered with Forested, LLC, a 10 acre forest garden research
farm, for a tree planting workday. In just a matter of a few hours,
over 60 volunteers planted over 80 trees and learned about permaculture
design! Click here to see the photos. CHEARS and
Forested would like to extend their thanks to Starbucks at the Greenway Center in
Greenbelt for their donations of coffee and creamer that energized our
program participants. And, as always, thanks so much to all of our
volunteer participants! ~ Alex Palmer, Volunteer
Maryland Coordinator
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Spring Nine Lives Yard Sale
Sunday,
April 27 in Greenbelt
The
Spring 9 Lives Yard Sale is planned for Sunday, April 27. The CHEARS
community can help raise funds for community education and arts by
donating usable goods.
We
will begin picking up items on April 19th. To donate something good
to the sale, call 202-664-7572 in the evenings or contact us via
email and include
"DONATION" in the subject line.
Proceeds
from the sale go entirely to community events including the Green Man
Festival, The Harvest Festival and other community gatherings where Art,
Music, Poetry and other creative spirits draw attention to environmental
issues.
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The
CHEARS Flows Project presents...
2014 Chincoteague Co-Learning and Fun Weekend
Looking Back, Moving Forward:
Baby Boomers and Climate Change
Memorial Day
Weekend 2014, Friday-Monday, May 23-26
Co-facilitators:
Bob and Maggie Cahalan
Beach Walking,
Canoeing, Kayaking, Co-Learning Exploration
How
did we get to where we are in 2014? Where do we go from here?
As early baby boomers,
coming of age in the 1960's and 1970's Bob and Maggie believed their
generation could change the world to be more peaceful, just, and
environmentally friendly---Now over 40 years later using threatened
Chincoteague Island as a metaphoric focus they invite you to join them
for a co-learning weekend focused on addressing these questions
Cost: $200--250
per person - includes: up to 4 night double occupancy stay in a beautiful Chincoteague Bay front home, healthy
vegan meals, canoe and kayak use, and Saturday and Sunday facilitated
co-learning sessions.
Contact Bob or Maggie to register. Space is
limited: All proceeds go to support CHEARS non-profit work dedicated
to promoting the health of all who share the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Bob Cahalan, is
the former Chief of the Climate and Radiation Lab at NASA Goddard and
Maggie Cahalan is the Director of the Pell Institute of the Council for
Opportunity in Education--Both Maggie and Bob are in process of planning
to retire/rewire soon!
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10th Annual Greenbelt Green Man Festival
May 10-11, Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt MD
Dear Folks,
The Green Man Festival is
coming up and we are in the final stages of planning and preparing for
the event. As the plans evolved, we have developed lists of things we
will need for the festival. If you can help provide some of these items
to borrow, please let us know.
First let's look at things we need lent to us for the weekend:
- Folding chairs
- Folding Tables
- Canopies
- A ladder
Materials we will need for the activities spaces:
- Clay pots 3" to
6"
- Potting soil
- Old bed sheets
- Sea shells
- Beads
- Chalk
- Egg cartons
- String and twine
- Tiles
- Pine cones and
tree nuts
- Popcycal sticks
and tooth picks
- Dried Beans, peas,
seeds, and pasta
- Flat stones, sea
glass, tree bark, sturdy dried leaves, wood chips, moss, & small
metal things
Call to have your items
picked up earlier at 202-664-7572 and leave your name and call back #.
Set aside a bag or box
and collect items for pick up or to bring to the festival.
We
also need volunteers for 1, 2, and 3 hour shifts in the activities area.
All
you need is a willingness to help and a love for creative activities!
~
CHEARS and the Green Man Community tribe
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Financial Permaculture Convergence
May 31-June 4, 2014 in Miami, Florida
Hosted by Earth Learning and Organized by Financial
Permaculture Institute
CHEARS and other regional
permaculture organizations are collaborating with Financial Permaculture
Institute in designing regenerative businesses for a national
permaculture convergence in Miami, Florida.
To
register and for more information,
$80
discount on the registration fee: use the code KWFPC
This event, as well as
the work leading up to it, will be focused on designing replicable
regenerative local food enterprises and growing resilient local food
economies.
We will address economic
and ecological challenges of the 21st century as we design
forward-looking businesses that optimize the local natural systems and
human capacities to implement models of regenerative business and local
resiliency.
For
more information on the 2014 Team Members, including our keynote
speakers, click here!
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