Block By Block Cooperation » urbana http://www.blocksteady.org A Neighborhood Sharing Association Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:57:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Bat Houses Are… Outside the House! http://www.blocksteady.org/06/bat-houses-are-outside-the-house/ http://www.blocksteady.org/06/bat-houses-are-outside-the-house/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:38:41 +0000 ryan http://www.blocksteady.org/?p=223 The Let’s Remake Crew (Bonnie & Brett) set up the test model of their Bat Houses public art initiative in Prehistoric East Urbana! They’ll be leading a workshop, where you can make your own bat accommodations and discuss bat conservation, on Friday, June 18 (2-4pm). See the Common Ground Coop website for more details.

]]> http://www.blocksteady.org/06/bat-houses-are-outside-the-house/feed/ 0 Respect Native Hosts Map http://www.blocksteady.org/12/respect-native-hosts-map/ http://www.blocksteady.org/12/respect-native-hosts-map/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:03:09 +0000 bonnie http://www.blocksteady.org/?p=192 I recently worked with Sharon Irish, Micah Bornstein, and Kerianne Quick to put as many Respect Native Hosts maps as I could find into a Google map so that we can see how far the project spread. It’s a great way to make solidarity with the Edgar Heap of Birds project visible within our community. This is a public map made for the closing reception of  “Beyond the Chief” on the University of Illinois campus. If you have a sign in your front yard and you are not noted in this version, please contact us at Blocksteady and we will get you onto the map. To read more about “Beyond the Chief” and the “Respect Native Hosts” project click here and here. The closing reception for the art piece will be December 4th, 2:00pm at the University YMCA, Latzer Hall, 1001 Wright St. For more information click here.

View Respect Native Hosts in a larger map

]]> http://www.blocksteady.org/12/respect-native-hosts-map/feed/ 0 Lynn St. Syrup http://www.blocksteady.org/03/lynn-st-syrup/ http://www.blocksteady.org/03/lynn-st-syrup/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:13:51 +0000 sarah http://www.blocksteady.org/?p=54 The process of making syrup from Lynn, Wabash, and Fairlawn St. Trees.

mapletrees

Sam taps trees and collects gallons and gallons of sap-- all to be boiled down --43 to 1 (gallons) for syrup. Sam Vandergrift is busy boiling down lots of sap from the neighborhood's maple trees. Soon we'll have syrup!

fifteen-gallons-in-a-wagon

Fifteen Gallons of Sap

tapping a tree

tapping a tree

Mamie loves the syrup

Mamie loves the syrup

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