Dear, Leonard. Thanks so much for your response. No worries about tardiness...my internet access can be sporadic based on access to libraries. Not a bad thing since it leaves me more time to pursue my passions namely sharing approaches Ive been using if theyre of interest to others. I volunteer Sundays from 1000 to 1500 hours at Walker Jones Community Garden at the corner of K and New Jersey Ave. if youd like to stop by. Theyre having a cook out next Saturday. I can let you know what time since you might, if you dont already, enjoy folks who manage it, DC Greens. Im also planning to volunteer Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week for Bread for the City helping out at the roof top gardens Tuesday and Thursday in NW and SE respectively and the Orchard in Beltsville, MD on Wednesday if weather permits if that works for you. Ive been trying to share with folks the lasagna mulch approach especially now since were in prime leaf harvesting time. Great opportunity to pull leaves off the streets and use them and/or store them in black plastic garbage bags for use as needed through the Winter/Spring. The black plastic acts like a heat sink on sunny days helping to moderate temperatures in gardens. Also removing leaves and storing them on site reduces collection costs and energy used. Holding rain water on site in various containers is also a great way to create microclimates. Goldfish, tilapia, fresh water shrimp can be grown in the containers to eat mosquito larvae and using water from the containers to water plants in the garden. This is the gist of a permaculture approach where nutrients in waste produced by fish is fertilizer for plants being grown...not unlike nutrients in human and pet waste being beneficial for plants in addition to reducing fresh water polluted by putting our waste in water so it can be shipped in pooh mass transit systems across town to pooh spas where its treated in large tanks with air bubbling through it to get the water to evaporate. Im planning on bicycling to Harrisburg, PA after the party at Walker Jones for a Tweed Ride on Sunday at 1100 hours and with hopes of checking out the city-owned warehouse space I squatted on there in August, 2012 and from August through October, 2013. Im hoping I can gain access to make some measurements...still trying to develop a prototype of an on-site, on-demand energy generation idea Ive been trying to create since 2009. Then bicycling to the Philly Bike Expo the next weekend and on up to Montauk, NY to the East Hampton Shellfish Hatchery where I worked. Ive spoken with the new director about using the tanks at height and ground level to make some basic measurements of flow rates, etc for the on-site energy generation idea...is all rather crazy folks keep telling me but I feel I need to keep working on it until I see for myself that its not really viable. It would be too easy to yield to critics but I have nothing else to do, so why not keep trying. My critics dont seem to have anything positive to say about things in general likely due to their sedentary lifestyles. If some other time works better for you, Im happy to accommodate. Just let me know when and where. Cheers and thanks, Craig P.S. Its likely that the U.S. National Field, Japanese Bonsairetum and Herb Garden (aka, Arboretum) threw out the ~1,000 aluminum shingles along with the rest of my stuff when they evicted me Luxury Greenhouse #6. They wanted all my stuff gone last Monday and had kindly packaged it and put it in the guardhouse by the front gate. Having only my bicycle and no place to move them to, I took the flower seeds and tossed them in various unplanted areas in DC by the Shaw Library and Dupont Circle. I threw the load of aluminum shingles I took in one of my baskets into a garbage can on Bladensburg Rd., since, without an ID, I cant even sell them to a recycler. I figured the Arboretum could sell them to a recycler if they didnt want them. I had offered the Executive Director, in emails I sent him, while sleeping there after speaking to him in person, that Id be happy to donate them to the Arboretum to create a Innovative Restroom as Id proposed in my 2010 Campaign for North Carolina State House but got no response. C est la vie.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:31:06 +0000
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