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Back to Nature: 7 Easy Steps to a Self-Watering Garden

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on September 15, 2015 Respond

Create a Self-Watering Garden in 7 Easy Steps by the Gassman Dan Garduno

Here’s a simple self watering system for your individual garden plants while helping the environment and lessen the burden on our overcrowded landfills. Here’s how:

  1. Upcycle a used water bottle.
  2. Cut the bottom off.
  3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
  4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
  5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
  6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
  7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!
  • 1. Up-cycle a used water bottle.
    1. Up-cycle a used water bottle.
  • 2. Cut the bottom off.
    2. Cut the bottom off.
  • 3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
    3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
  • 4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
    4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
  • 5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
    5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
  • 6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
    6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
  • 7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!
    7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!

 

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Dan Garduno

“The Glassman” will be posting more blogs and ideas as well as hosting many workshops on Self-sustainability, urban farming/agriculture, windowsill gardening, composting, upcycling, self water planters  and grow beds, solar passive heating, collecting and purifying rain water, mass heaters and rocket stoves, papercrete, hemp cement, and so much more throughout 2015!

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Sustainable Living for a Healthy You

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on August 1, 2015 Respond

 

Sustainable Living for a Healthy You by Alex Paramo

Sustainability

In Environmental Science Sustainability is defined as the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supportinglong-term ecological balance. It is a common term in today’s lexicon and in reaches from the Universal to the Interpersonal. Our lifestyles can be termed as sustainable or unsustainable. What is the key to sustainability? Balance in every aspect of our life. 

At the Rail Yards Market their mission calls for a focus on creating a sustainable local economy but that is only one component. Weekly at the RYM, educators, vendors, entertainers and volunteers create an environment that is fueled by a passion for the local environment. This Sunday they have many opportunities for you to learn about how to participate in the creation of a sustainable world.

Sustainability in the STEAM Zones

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The fine folks at Sanctuary at ABQ have a myriad of activities planned including:

Bird House Project:

  • 2 bird houses
  • Can of Enviro-coating

The Children’s zone will have Kids Project:

  • Mini paper Cups
  • Organic Soil
  • Mint or sunflower seeds

There will also be various displays including an Aquaponics display and Solar Panel Display. A Solar City and Corn Hole Game for Raffle. Additionally they will have lots of reading materials covering:

  • Sustainable Farming
  • Aquaponics
  • Enviro-coating

SustainabilityJoining Sanctuary at ABQ is April Parrish. April Parrish is a local Artist who lives in the East Mountains of Albuquerque and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music. Her passion is founded in continuously learning, expressing and celebrating the Creative Principles at work in All Peoples and All Life while seeking the common threads of Sustainability and Beauty in a gentle ‘footprint’ on the Natural environment we all share on Our Earth. More information about April and her organization can be found here.

April is bringing an open canvas to RYM Sustainability Day’s STEAM Zone to share in a Live Community Earth Paint creation. The public will be painting, learning and playing creatively together!

Music and Yoga for a Sustainable Life

SustainabilityOn our Main, among others, the folks from Mi Vida Yoga will be on hand to help you get into the proper balanced zone physically, mentally and spiritually!

Their program begins at 10 am so do not miss it! We also have various local musicians including RYM favorites, La Rondalla de Albuquerque. Find the complete schedule by checking on our calendar here.

Remember the words of the late Historian Howard Zinn, “You don’t have to engage in grand heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions (billions) of people can transform the world.” This Sunday, August 2nd from 10-2pm, the Rail Yards Market offers the opportunity for you to learn how you can do your small part.

See You Sunday!

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Guest Poet: Jane Yolen

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on April 22, 2015 Respond

Earth Day by Jane Yolen

I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.

And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.

That’s why we
Celebrate this day.
That’s why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.

SOURCE: “Earth Day” appears in The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Bookby Jane Yolen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995) available at Amazon.com.

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Earth DayScience fiction and fantasy writer, editor, children’s author, and poet Jane Yolen is the author of more than 300 books. She is also a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of children’s literature. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Read more by clicking here.

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Building a Sustainable Environment at the Rail Yards Market

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on August 2, 2014 Respond

By Alex Paramo

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Serious conversation regarding the gradual degradation of our environment no longer centers around ‘if’ but ‘when’ or in other words, ‘how long.’ How long do we have until our planet can no longer sustain our species, Homo Sapiens-Sapiens. How long can the planet sustain the damage that we have done to it and still provide us with the gift of life? At the Rail Yards Market we have discussed and implemented some eco-friendly initiatives with the goal of sustainability at their core.

Getting Rid of the Bottleneck

Osceola EnergyOne such initiative is the move from bottled water to having a water refill station using compostable cups! For one dollar, visitors get a cup and they are entitled to unlimited refills. We are also excited to announce that the forward-thinking folks at Osceola Energy are powering our main stage using  solar energy! Osceola Energy is a local company specializing in Electrical Contracting and Renewable Energy Systems.

Educational Zones

SustainabilityAt our Sustainability Zone we welcome the NM Watershed Resources Network. The NM Watershed Resources Network is a “coalition promoting sustainable solutions for communities through green infrastructure and watershed restoration.”

The Children’s Zone features the irreplaceable Artist/Musician/Educator Stephanie Galloway leading the kiddos in hat-making using Newspapers, feathers and other craft supplies.

At the Live Arts Zone is proud to present a native New Mexican Artist, Deana McGuffin www.mcguffinboots.com, for an all day set on August 3rd! Deana has been making custom cowboy boots for 25 years. Deana’s grandfather, C. C. McGuffin, was 27 when he left Texas to set up his own boot shop in the Roswell, New Mexico courthouse square in 1915. His son L. W., Deana’s father, showed early natural artistic ability that turned him into one of the southwest’s finest and most sought-after leather-craftsmen. Father and daughter have demonstrated their craft at the Smithsonian, at New Mexico Folklife Festivals, at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, the Gathering of Gear in Elk, Nevada, and were featured in the “Sole Mates” exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe in 2010. Join us on Sunday to see how the best of the best gets those Boots a Walkin’!

Entertainment

As usual we present Albuquerque’s top Poets, Musicians, and Entertainers on both our Community and Main Stage. This Sunday at 2pm we are excited to present the world-renowned dancers from the National Institute of Flamenco on our Main Stage. Full schedule can be found by clicking here. 

As part of our commitment to the local economy and our community at-large, we will have our usual variety of food, vendors and growers to choose from with a mix of some new folks!

At the Rail Yards Market we know that our efforts alone cannot begin to address the critical condition of our environment. Our aim is to help educate our community to work together to promote a sustainable city that can serve as a model for communities around the country. See you Sunday!

Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings local artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.

We are proud to be a community partner and digital marketer at the Rail Yards Market.#JoinOurCommunity at http://communitypublishing.org

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