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Water Street Commons, drenched in rain, begins to show signs of life

It’s the first real rain since we seeded our acre of Water Street a few weeks ago, and I’m incredibly happy. I’d intended to go out this evening, with my friend Jeff, to dig up some spotted knapweed and put a few more transplants in the ground, but, seeing as how it’s raining, I thought […]

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Thanks to all of you who made seed bombs with me yesterday

I woke up this morning with stiff, frozen claws for hands, after a day filled with mixing clay and rolling out seed bombs. It started over lunch, with an intense seed bomb making session at a local school, and ended along the banks of the Huron, at the kickoff of Totally Awesome Fest. Thanks to […]

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Water Street work day…

I’m exhausted, and I need to go to bed, but I wanted to thank the 20 or so people who showed up today, in spite of the snow and freezing rain, to prepare our acre of Water Street for next Wednesday’s big seed bombing. Given how terrible the weather was, I was sure that I’d […]

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STATUS REPORT: The Seed Bombing of Water Street

We now have almost everything we need to carry out the seed bombing of Water Street on May 1, as you can see from the above photo, which I just snapped in my living room. The seeds arrived today from Native Connections, and, on my way home from work, I purchased 100-pounds of red clay […]

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We need $500 to seed bomb Water Street, and we’re almost there already!

I have a few updates relative to our May 1 seed bombing of Water Street. We reached out to a few reputable, in-state suppliers of native seed, and heard back from Native Connections in Three Rivers, Michigan that they had a prepared mix that might meet our needs. It contains significantly more species than we’d […]

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