Hi Folks,
Spring is in the air, the soil is warming up and you can smell life rising from it. Time to be working in the garden. Join us at the South Seattle Community College Carbon Garden. On Saturday the 13th we will have a garden chore day and at 1pm we will have our first meeting of 2010.
As any of you who have followed our activities this winter know: SeaChar has some exciting biochar related projects on tap for the coming year. The agenda for the meeting will be as follows:

  • Forming a biochar test plot committee (First order of Business: picking the spring crop)
  • An update on the Adam-retort building project
  • An overview of the recently announced SeaChar/Sol Colibri: Estufa Finca… Central America stove project and how you can get involved
  • I will also be tendering a freshly revised SeaChar Mission statement and matching goals and strategic plan for our discussion and possible approval

Thanks to the good work of Vivian Scott and the far sighted generosity of the curators of Bellevue’s Open Satellite Gallery http://www.opensatellite.org/ , we will have several hundred, small, wild, native strawberry starts to plant at the plot. These are from the recently closed Meiro Kolzumi installation: “The Corner of Sweet and Bitter” This will be our group’s first contribution to the Campus Crops Initiative, recently announced by the S&A Campus Sustainability Task Force http://www.southgoesgreen.blogspot.com/ Fitting support for Seattle’s “Year of Urban Agriculture”. I will be on the plot  @ 10am , with tools ready for a great day . See you there!

The plot is located at the south end (next to the cell-phone tower) of
SSCC’s Delridge Campus. http://www.southseattle.edu/campus/map.htm
6000 16th Ave.SW. Seattle, 98106

Char!

Art Donnelly
206-612-3018
SeaChar.Org