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Compost Teach-In with 'Save Our Compost' Professionals

2/3/2024

 
Read more in "Community Composting Produces More than Just Good Dirt" by Greta Wong in City Limits linked HERE
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Gil Lopez of BigReuse and Smiling Hogshead Ranch facilitated our event. Greta Wong of Nurture BK Compost and formerly of Queens Botanical Compost also joined to teach us about the full cycle process of composting. 

We brought our food scraps, gathered, learned mixed and chopped, incorporated greens & browns into one of the current compost piles, sifted finished compost, and applied some compost to a garden! We lit a candle as we learned about more land based thinking traditions and seasonal practices like Imbolc.  Then we had time left for treats, conversations, and relaxed connections under a brilliant, cold-air-&-sunshine, blue sky. 

Fall General Membership Meeting 2023

10/23/2023

 
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RIGC Spring General Meeting 2023 Slides

3/20/2023

 
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Poem: Autumn Wrapped in Red, Orange, and Gold

10/29/2022

 
The third of our four seasons of poems by Vera's Pen for 2022. Thank you and "Á la prochaine!" 
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Fall General Meeting Sunday Oct. 23, 2022      Slide Show

10/23/2022

 

Town Hall Meetings 2022: a lovely Zero Waste Potluck returns after three years. Beautiful evening in the garden!

9/10/2022

 
Karen and Jack deserve much acknowledgment for their generous gift of time, organization skills, and work in making the potluck a success!

Harvest dishes abounded as we all included tomatoes, peppers, or herbs from our gardens.  One special highlight was the fig tart by Sara and Stamos.  The teaching garden students along with Laura L. harvested a cantaloupe to serve and created a bean, basil, kale salad.

​We enjoyed real cutlery and dishes and cloth napkins! Thank you to all for bringing your own dishes and utensils, cups and napkins. At the "Sanit" station we composted all food scraps returning directly into the compost pile so that what comes from the earth, to the earth.  As for zero waste we were so close! Because of all these efforts, we produced less than one pound (only a half of one container) of waste that had to go to landfill. 

For after the meal, Janet brought the game 'Name that Plant' for folks to learn how to identify NYS invasive plants and some beneficial look alike alternatives. For example:
  • Purple Loosestrife can be replaced by the long blooming Anise Hyssop 
  • invasive Sweet Autumn Clematis can be replaced by the similarly beautiful and also fast growing American native Virgin's Bower or Clematis virginiana 

Special thanks to so many. We had 25-30 people who were able to attend. There were food contributors who brought a dish even though they couldn't stay. We had teams of folks who cleaned up before, David and Kaz; and those who set up on the day of the event; Karen, Linda, Madeleine, Mary, Mako, Alida, Stamos, Sara, Farouk, Yema, Luba, and Deb D. who also bought ice; then those stayed to clean up after Monica and Jack.  We have certainly missed naming some people here, so once again, gratitude for all. 
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August: Standards Votes!

8/27/2022

 
For the "Most Consistently Enjoyable" category 
B27 Julie and B30 Elizabeth win in a tie!
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B 27
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B30
For Best Veggie
the winner is A01 Beverly
​with honorable mention to B31 Cynthia

​Congratulations to all! 
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Spotted Lantern Flies: What to do? Go ahead and kill them, but do no harm to other beneficial wildlife.

8/13/2022

 
In August, the Spotted Lanternfly team tried some traps recommended by various sources.  We were encouraged and thought they might be working fairly well.

(Note: added to post later) 
In early September, we discovered that the sticky tape version of the traps was killing many beneficial insects and also harming/trapping our beautiful local and migrating birds. So, Dave Nisthaus took the traps down for this season.

​Be on the watch for the adult insects and now for the egg masses. We can keep reducing the numbers of this overpopulated new insect that has no predators on our continent. 
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July 2022: Standards Votes!

7/15/2022

 
Summertime Congratulations!  During their July inspection, Standards voted on the following plots in the following categories:

"Best July Garden"
B30 - Elizabeth

"Most Improved"
A14 - John's Pond

"Most Serene on a Hot Day" 
A14 - John's Pond 
C62  - Sande & Mitch

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B-30 Elizabeth's Garden
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A 14. John's Pond
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C 62 - Sande & Mitch's Garden

'The Dog Days of Summer To Be' by Vera's Pen

7/14/2022

 
Thank you so much, Vera, for sending in your writing and thoughts.
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Some follow up resources on Climate Change from Julia Ferguson, 2022 Secretary:
  • The following site Drawdown.org contains learning about solutions that reverse global warming. Check out their videos. 
  • Climate change is complexly linked to other injustices. Some may be interested by this project/book of essays: ​All We Can Save.
  • ​Others may enjoy articles/stories of regeneration by our neighbor, Climate Journalist: Audrey Gray. 
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