I think this tire tower would be too top heavy with soil in
only one or two tires. Paul

Here are some pictures from Eleanor’s GREENspace.

Let them inspire you in your designs ;-)

Here’s Eleanor pointing the way.

http://www.inhabitat.com/
Some of this site is cool and some of it sucks, i think it’s worth a look.

Those of you that are interested in making seed bombs, let’s meet up tomorrow night and make them. I got some red clay from the side of the road in Georgia today. It is moist and mixed with sand. I’m not sure if we can use it. Any one have any info about this? All the sites about seed bombs I’ve seen suggest using dry red clay which they purchased from an art supply store. We need compost made of mostly leaves and plant matter. Was someone able to get this? And the seeds that were given to us from Native Nursery. We also need boards, cookie sheets, or wood panels to lay out the seed balls so they can dry.

Here is a link on how to make them: http://www.heavypetal.ca/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=seed+balls

And here are the results! Planted by the Vancouver Guerrilla Gardening Group. See more of them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanwild/sets/72157594557353491/

I made it to the landfill today, but I can’t say that it was exactly a fruitful experience. First of all, it is actually illegal to remove anything from the landfill, however, the director does allow exceptions for certain items at times for such things as pressure treated wood because it contains arsenic and they don’t want it in the landfill. I was informed while there that they are working on changing the law so that the public may eventually come in and acquire items. I told the gentleman I spoke with that this would make a huge impact on the community because a lot of people can really use found materials for many different things. Another thing, they do usually have compost for free, but I was advised that they’re not going to have any for at least another month or so. Obviously we have to get it from somewhere else. I’m going to check out Tom Brown Park because I heard that they might have some. I’ll keep you posted on that. I was advised that if our class still wants to visit the landfill, then we need to contact the director himself so that we can set up an appointment and he can show us around the entire place…and it isn’t small by the way. It’s really spread out with several different dumping/recycling areas for different types of items. I posted pictures so that you can get an idea. it’s kind of surreal driving through this place. I think it would be a pretty interesting class visit if only to learn about how the modern waste system works, but I’ll leave that option up to Paul.

The director’s contact information is below-

Leon County
Solid Waste Management Division
7550 Apalachee Parkway
Tallahassee, FL 32311
phone (850) 606-1800
fax (850) 606-1801

HOURS: Open Mon-Sat 8am-5pm

Norm Thomas, Director
thomasno@leoncountyfl.gov
(850) 606-1810

Chris Bittle (far right) from Birdsong Nature Center visits the Get Green alley and gives suggestions about possible habitats to develop.

Hello everyone. Here is the design for my kinetic metal flowers. I’m going to email it to Joyce McGill today and I’ll let you all know what she has to say. I am still unsure how many I will be able to make due to time constraints and cost issues. I’m going to try and head over to lowes today or tomorrow to price the pieces. Any feedback would be appreciated!

here is the link to my design: Metal Flower Design.PDF

Adam

listen, we need to decide on what to do, so comment on lee’s post about what you want to do.the idea was also brought up to make wednesdays work-nights for personal endeavors. This friday come with specific ideas at 2:00pm. Chris Bittle will be there.

also, bring digital cameras for video documentation. Lee is scripting out a comic, but doesn’t have to worry about making a grand masterpiece.

We may be going to Native Nurseries

After doing some research for my general idea of installing a faux green/art space on Gaines street rooftops, I thought I’d post some interesting links for everyone to check out. my concept has evolved into creating sturdy, colorful kinetic pinwheel type flowers of metal in varying sizes that will react to windstreams. Sorry I didn’t embed the videos, but there are several so it will save us page space. Enjoy and hopefully they’ll inspire you in some way!

COLE ROOFTOP ART

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ei9Dul0zhVA

INCREDIBLE SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA METRO ROOFTOP GREENSPACE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02rH5U8emY

700 DRAGONS IN MY GARDEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpE_AZaS4yw

ROOFTOP GREENSPACE LOUNGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiq0Tqr2DQ

KINETIC ART (UNUSUALLY LONG VIDEO…JUST WATCH THE FIRST 60 SEC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelXWS4ByPg

ROOFTOP SCULPTURES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvsjjdvtOlc 

Sorry that I haven’t posted this sooner, but here are the list of ideas that I’ve documented in class (This could help us with what Raina and Sarah have been suggesting). Maybe if everyone comments with their three favorite ideas, we can kind of group people together with similar interests, and other individuals can start working on individual projects if they’d like? Also, I’ve tried to group them in terms of large-, medium-, and small-scale/things-we-can-do-while-doing-other-things. Here they are:

Large-scale

• Building an irrigation system and / or aquaduct to control the flow of water
• Metal garden
• Doing something on the roof of the Beta Bar
• Doing something on Paul’s roof
• Bat house
• Making the alley into a gallery for plants
• Promoting vine growth on buildings
• Moss Graffiti
• Succulent Wreathes
• Performance piece
• Lattace work in Paul’s Alley
• Large-scale alternative planters

Medium-scale

• Planters affixed to city objects
• Building recycling bins for the homeless and passers-through to use
• Hanging planters in unconventional spaces
• Putting planters in front of Avant-Garb or the Cosmic Cat
• Plant something in the empty planter that runs along the side of Urban World

Small-scale / things-we-can-do-while-doing-other-things

• Seed bombs
• Planting herbs anywhere
• Providing information about what’s planted and why
• Researching Florida Native American tribes and Florida’s native flowers, and building a connection between the two

If you have any more ideas that I forgot, let me know and I’ll add it to the list! If we get really adventurous, perhaps we can strike things that are done and move onto other stuff.