Alchemical Nursery’s E-Newsletter July 30, 2010

The Alchemical Nursery News & Events
Friday July 30, 2010 – Sunrise 5:53 A.M. Sunset 8:29 P.M – Moon waning 82%
The vegetable garden is likely to require daily harvesting now. Cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers should be picked as soon as the fruits are ready. This captures the best flavor, and also makes way for new fruits. Remove dead pea vines, bolted lettuce, and other plants that have gone by and add them to the compost pile.

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1] Website Migration and New Template
2] ArtMusicPeople July 30 – TTP Artworks on Display
3] Save-The-Date – Oct 2 and Oct 3
4] Latest Discussions at the Permaculture Guild
5] Congratulations to our Fiscally Sponsored Projects

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1] Website Migration and New Template

If you haven’t been to the Alchemical Nursery website recently, take a peek. We’ve completed our data migration to the updated version of our Joomla! content management system, and in the process have also updated our theme template – so things have a new look.

The layout and final content are not yet 100% complete as certain modules still need to be recreated and certain settings need to be reapplied, so you’ll notice more differences in the weeks to come as the final layout gets settled in. So in the meantime please excuse our dust.

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2] ArtMusicPeople July 30 – TTP Artworks on Display

Join a wide range of artists and musicians at the ArtMusicPeople “Gypsies Pirates and Cowboys! Bikes for Refugees” at Spark
Contemporary Art Space, 1005 East Fayette St. Syracuse, NY. Gallery opens at 1 PM. Music starts at 7PM! 6 dollars after 7pm. Full details are at the Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=102179979835150&ref=ts

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3] Save-The-Date – Oct 2 and Oct 3

Alchemical is organizing two exciting events for this fall.

October 2 – “Attend a special screening of the documentary film “Visions of Utopia” (94 minutes) – Saturday October 2nd, starting at 11:00 am, at the Westcott Community Center, corner of Euclid Ave and Westcott St, Syracuse, NY. This event is FREE and open to everyone, and will take place in partnership with the Westcott Bulb Project. “Visions of Utopia”, distributed by the Fellowship for Intentional Communities, features profiles of seven diverse communities from across the breadth of the United States, plus a fascinating history of 2500 years of shared living intentional communities. This film garnered the Communal Studies Association’s “Outstanding Project Award” for Producer Geoph Kozeny. A panel discussion will be held at the conclusion of the screening where we will discuss reactions to the film, as well as intentional community and ecovillage initiatives in the Central NY region.”

October 3 – Join the Syracuse Permaculture Guild for a Sunday afternoon of permaculture education and comraderie. Folks will come together for a 12 Noon potluck lunch at 717 Otisco Street. While digging in, Valerie Dawnstar will present an Introduction to Permaculture curriculum and discussion that will be followed by some hands-on activities to help develop the permaculture landscape at this urban residential property. The focus of the activities will relate to preparing your landscape/garden for fall production and winter rest in preparation for next year’s growing season.

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4] Latest Happenings at the Permaculture Guild

Come check out the Guild’s Meetup site and help co-develop our permie community here in CNY.

http://www.meetup.com/Permaculture-and-Urban-Homesteading/

12 new members have done just that this summer by joining the Guild; and the latest topics at the discussion Boards include the following:

* Looking to remove black walnut trees
* Help my Grapes!
* What city repair looks like
* Renaissance

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5] Congratulations to our Fiscally Sponsored Projects

Alchemical’s fiscally sponsored projects in our Quinta Essentia program continue to make news and make our communities more healthy and fun every day.

* Syracuse First has launched a new website (www.syracusefirst.org) and are the producers of this summer’s Blue Rain ECOfest which will take place this weekend at Hanover Square – http://www.bluerainecofest.org/ * ArtMusicPeople is holding its latest show at Spark Contemporary Art Space on Friday night to raise funds and provide bicycles for reufugees – see details above.
* B.E.A.N. received a grant award from the Gifford Foundation and is using it to revitalize the Kwanzaa Garden on the southside of Syracuse this weekend.
* Syracuse Grows held a series of four gardening workshops this spring and continues to support our city’s community gardens. * Artist Tina Zagyva launched “Vessel #3” of “Themselves Has Been A Gathering” at the Westoctt Community Center Gallery this summer, and is in the planning stages for an outdoor exhibit at Lipe Art Park next year.

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