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Seeding the City: Learn How to Live Green in the City
The Laundromat Project & NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Project present Seeding the City: Learn How to Live Green in the City.
This event aims to create an open forum for artists, urban dwellers, farmers, and food activists to exchange ideas and practices around responsible agricultural and environmental stewardship. There will be 8 free workshops that teach you how to cultivate and beautify your spaces using a variety of environmentally responsible strategies.
Workshops include:
- Benefits of Permaculture: Claudia Joseph, Environmental Educator
- DIY - Tips on How to Make Your Home Sustainable: Jay-E Emmingham and Rasu Jilani, Pratt Center for Community Development (sponsored by Build It Green! NYC and NOMAD Architecture)
- Solarize a Toy: Jocelyn Cohen, Energy Solutions Project Manager, Sustainable Flatbush
- Double Digging to Grow More in Less Space: Jason Gaspar, Artist and Farmer
- Portable Solar Panel Demo on Sustainable Energy: David Magid, You Save Green
- Learn How to Build a Mobile Garden: Tattfoo Tan, Artist
- Get Dirty to Get Clean - Purifying Water with Microbial Mud Balls: Miki Katagiri, Artist
- Making an Apartment Planter with Household Materials: Aki Hirata-Baker and Yemi Amu, Adopt-a-Farmbox
For more information, see the event flier.
Event Details
Saturday, July 30, 2011 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Weeksville Heritage Center, 1698 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11213
A picnic in the Weeksville Garden will follow the workshops from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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