We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
Smiling Hogshead, Inc
Members met for the 1st meeting of the year at the Flux Factory
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
One of our co-founders Gil Lopez spoke on the Identifying Opportunities & Facilitating Transformations panel during day two of this international event.
Our anniversary falls on the one date of the year that is also a call to action March Fourth (forth). We use this to galvanize our constituents and send a preemptive "Spring is Here!" message.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
You can now give a tax deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor! https://palmsforlifefund.org/hogshead/
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
SUNY instructor brings his studio students to visit NYC and discover urban foodsheds, ecology and remediation. @sunyesf #LandArch #FoodStudio
The first work day of the 2014 season. We will be turning under cover crops, turning over compost, pruning blueberries and other housekeeping tasks.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
Hogshead Members presented our project and tied it to an overall theory of increasing participatory creation of urban ecology.
Gil presented to the Community Board asking for a Letter of Recommendation (LOR) to become a GreenThumb Garden.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
Announcing stuff at the community board meeting can really come in handy, take this little nugget for example.
We collect compostables from a local coffee shop and brewer each week. We couldn't fit them all on this timeline but they happen every week all year round.
Learn how to correctly prune fruit trees for the spring. Discover the many different fruit trees living at Smiling Hogshead Ranch & help plant some new ones! A great day at the Ranch! Planted blueberry, raspberry, strawberry & pruned paw-paw, cherry, peach, plum, blueberry, apple & more!
The Citizens Committee for New York City has awarded us a Love Your Block (LYB) Grant! We will be implementing our plan to expand our useable spec during this three day event. Please join us as we create a new community space in LIC for outdoor gatherings, skillshares and events! On this first day we will be doing major trash debris removal, clearing brush and separating materials into recycle, compost and rubbish piles. ***Get there at noon for light snacks and an inspirational talk about the Empathic World from Shig Matsukawa, bokashi extrodinaire*** Your help is greatly appreciated and you are welcome to come for all or a portion of any event. This is day 1 of a three day event: Good Friday 4/18 12-6pm – https://www.facebook.com/events/710980628947314/ On this first day we will be doing major trash debris removal, clearing brush and separating materials into recycle, compost and rubbish piles. Saturday 4/19 10am-3pm – https://www.facebook.com/events/1415574415368833/ Day two will focus on creating paths, planting beds and open areas. Easter 4/20 10am-4pm – https://www.facebook.com/events/732347670118426/ The final day will involve moving railroad ties and creating a foundation for a stage.
Building raised beds, pallet benches, weeding, mulching, litter pickup
Gil spoke to the Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board about our micro-scale composting operation
The NYC Community Composting Coalition hosted a Pecha Kucha style event where Hogshead and other community groups presented their composting operations and best practices.
How many vacant lots can you bomb with sunflower seeds in one day? Take this as your challenge and let us know. Start some sunflowers or sow the seeds. Chart out a 5-boro route or hit up all the tree pits on your block. Share your pictures with #GGsunflowers
We will plant starts we purchased from The GrowNYC plant sale (http://www.grownyc.org/openspace/plantsale). It is also International Compost Awareness Week (http://compostingcouncil.org/icaw/) so we will be sifting to top dress our baby plants. Followed by a group ride/walk to the Queens Library at Broadway for a free screening of "Symphony of the Soil", starting at 3:15. http://greening.queenslibrary.org/event/green-film-symphony-of-the-soil
Herbal tea making workshop w/ Jennie Pea & Mood Cookies and Tea with Maria D!
What is biodynamic farming? How can biodynamic practices help your garden? How do you apply biodynamic preparations? Come learn the answers to these questions and more with Jennie Pea @SmilingHogshead Ranch. During this hands on workshop participants will prepare and apply the following BD Preps: BC (Biodynamic Compound Preparation) helps awaken the soil in preparation for planting. BD#500 (Horn Manure) stimulates root growth and humus formation.
hosted by Geoff B.
Nurturing, stretching sequences in honor of your gardening. We'll care for your lower back and lengthen out those hamstrings, all while deeply breathing in spring. Please BYOYM (bring your own yoga mat) and dress in thin layers that allow movement. All levels welcome. Please post requests--let's create a class that speaks to you!
Hogshead lacks facilities to do our most basic of business. But all that mess is changing, join us as we implement an outhouse with composting toilet (AKA eco-potty; natural loo). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet
Smiling Hogshead Ranch accepts kitchen scraps collected weekly at the Queens Library at Woodside (one of 5 Queens Library compost collection sites). We toured those sites, library gardens, worms bis and more at 7 different Queens Library branches and ended the bike tour with a tour and BBQ picnic at Smiling Hogshead Ranch.
Join us as we inspect our mycelial undergrowth and enjoy fungi camaraderie in the garden.
Container Farming (Smiling Hogshead Ranch, Long Island City) With limited access to land, alternative gardenscapes are essential to the success of urban gardening. Learn from professionals in the field who use a variety of containers to grow abundant, healthy food and have successfully increased our access to fresh food in limited spaces.
Join us for the third in this outdoor yoga series. Nurturing, stretching sequences in honor of your real and metaphorical gardening, all while we deeply breathe in spring. Non-gardeners are welcome too! Please BYOYM (bring your own yoga mat & water bottle) and dress in thin layers that allow movement. All levels welcome. Feel free to post requests! **This is a donation-based class so please bring some funds to support our community space.
"Science, art & ecology, beer & oysters & bioremediation of our relationship with ourselves. each other and the earth." Make mud balls in ball gowns to revitalize the waterways, eat raw oysters to throw their shells into the water, dance while sewing seeds, consume good local fermentations, open up with yoga, get a hair cut to clean oil spills, and much more.
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