Green Noble Archives 2019
Nov. 17, 2017, at Noble Library, 3pm
A reminder that we'll be holding our Green Noble action and reading group this Sunday at 3 PM at the Noble Library.
The video will be the funny, but instructive classic video from 1988 called the Unnatural History of the Cane Toad. Afterwards, we'll talk about what kind of programming the group wants for next year.
The video will be the funny, but instructive classic video from 1988 called the Unnatural History of the Cane Toad. Afterwards, we'll talk about what kind of programming the group wants for next year.
Oct. 6, 2019, at Noble Library, 3pm
Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, October 6th at 3 pm at Noble Library. This month we'll be reading another book titled "Buzz, Sting, Bite" by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, a book about the world of insects. It's a shorter book than Tallamy's, about 200 pages, and has a more breezy, enthusiastic look at the world of bugs (including their dating and sex lives in chapter 2). Her goal is to make you like insects.
Sept 8, 2019 at Noble Library, 3pm
In keeping with our reading and action charter, out next book will be Bringing Nature Home, How You Can Sustain Wildlife With Native Plants by Douglas Tallamy. The discussion will be led by Cleveland Heights residents Peggy Spaeth and John Barber. They will describe how they have used the book’s ideas to replant the landscape bordering the Shaker Lakes as well as their own home landscape. Hopefully, you’ll get some ideas you can implement quickly in your own yard. Steve Sanders, our faithful supporter at the library has ordered multiple copies of the book, which you can pick up immediately.
Workshop Opportunity:
Workshop and Tour on August 19
From Blight to Bright: Reimagining vacant land to support people and biodiversity in cities
Are you interested in urban conservation? A field tour and workshop on August 19 hosted by Dr. Mary Gardiner and her Laboratory will highlight the importance of vacant land as a habitat for insects and source of many important ecosystem services we derive from our landscape. Speakers will address the community of insects found in vacant lots, balancing the needs of people and insects in vacant lot design, how to establish native plants in degraded habitats, community gardening, and the importance of the urban forest. The city of Cleveland, OH manages over 30,000 vacant lots. Although these properties can be seen as blight, there are also many exciting ways to reimagine these greenspaces to promote conservation and community goals.
See the workshop schedule here: Blight to Bright – A Workshop on August 19 in Cleveland
From Blight to Bright: Reimagining vacant land to support people and biodiversity in cities
Are you interested in urban conservation? A field tour and workshop on August 19 hosted by Dr. Mary Gardiner and her Laboratory will highlight the importance of vacant land as a habitat for insects and source of many important ecosystem services we derive from our landscape. Speakers will address the community of insects found in vacant lots, balancing the needs of people and insects in vacant lot design, how to establish native plants in degraded habitats, community gardening, and the importance of the urban forest. The city of Cleveland, OH manages over 30,000 vacant lots. Although these properties can be seen as blight, there are also many exciting ways to reimagine these greenspaces to promote conservation and community goals.
See the workshop schedule here: Blight to Bright – A Workshop on August 19 in Cleveland
July 14, 2019 at Noble Library, 3pm
- Short video to whet the appetite on permaculture
- Toby Hemenway – Food Forest & Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3O2REqVTKo (video: 7 minutes) - Wikipedia article on permaculture, including history and a list of its 12 principles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture (article: long)
(No need to read all this: read what interests you and answers your questions, and leave the rest.) - Note: Permaculture design can be applied in different contexts, different environments.
And it is not only applied to plants and animals. It can integrate human social factors, too.
For examples below I’ll reference urban, suburban, temperate climate, and community-related, because those are our contexts. - Holyoke, Massachusetts, Paradise Lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-A966tojhA (video: 14 minutes) - Community Food Forest example in North Carolina:
https://communityfoodforests.com/dr-george-washington-carver-edible-park/ (short article, includes 8 minute video by a fan)
June 26, 6:30 - 8:00 pm at the Rec Center
Insect Sanctuary Discussion
Mary Gardiner, an environmental scientist at Ohio State, initiated a study on 64 of Cleveland's vacant lots. She planted prairie types of grasses and flowers to attract insects and studied the results with her graduate students. At this meeting, we'll discuss the possibility of installing a large project in our neighborhood. We'll need some citizen scientists to help document the effectiveness of such an installation.
Notice how well this dovetails with our other neighborhood initiatives - the pocket pollinator gardens on Langton, our long-time and new community gardens (where pollinating insects are in high demand!), and our Noble Gardeners' Market (where the pollinated plants' veggies are sold!).
Notice how well this dovetails with our other neighborhood initiatives - the pocket pollinator gardens on Langton, our long-time and new community gardens (where pollinating insects are in high demand!), and our Noble Gardeners' Market (where the pollinated plants' veggies are sold!).
June 2, 2019
Reading for June 2 - The Hidden Half of Nature by David Montgomery and Anne Bikle (https://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Hidden-Half-of-Nature/) and is particularly appropriate for those planning their first gardens. It describes how harnessing the power of the microbiome is the key to both garden and human health. Heights Library's Noble Library has agreed to order multiple copies for the Noble Library. Each participant is responsible for contacting the library to reserve a book or to acquire it another way.
May 5, 2019
Reading/viewing assignments for May 5: Click on each title to download
How to Start a Garden
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners
What Gardening Can Teach You about Unexpected Motivation
Conserving Bees in Urban Public Green Spaces
How to Start a Garden
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners
What Gardening Can Teach You about Unexpected Motivation
Conserving Bees in Urban Public Green Spaces
April 7, 2019
We have a Sunday April 7 reading discussion group scheduled for the Noble Library at 3 PM. Since, in our first two meetings, we discussed mostly hands-on topics (e.g. groundhog control), we're going to give a little more room this next time to big picture items and give our discussion leaders a little more time (~20 minutes for three discussions). We'll probably want to add a couple more short articles, but these articles will give you a head start:
Planting edibles in shade. Discussion leader: Peggy Linked article: https://growagoodlife.com/vegetables-that-grow-in-shade/
Building community with gardening. Discussion leader: Jill 3 linked articles:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/01/16/paris-pastoral-a-city-recultivated/
https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/rdRuralCoop_NovDec2013_0.pdf
https://library.dctabudhabi.ae/eds/detail?db=sur&an=131533974&isbn=00271535
The insect apocalypse and what we can do about it. Discussion leader: Helene
Links:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
http://www.gardenopoliscleveland.org/2016/08/boneset-pollinator-party/
Planting edibles in shade. Discussion leader: Peggy Linked article: https://growagoodlife.com/vegetables-that-grow-in-shade/
Building community with gardening. Discussion leader: Jill 3 linked articles:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/01/16/paris-pastoral-a-city-recultivated/
https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/rdRuralCoop_NovDec2013_0.pdf
https://library.dctabudhabi.ae/eds/detail?db=sur&an=131533974&isbn=00271535
The insect apocalypse and what we can do about it. Discussion leader: Helene
Links:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
http://www.gardenopoliscleveland.org/2016/08/boneset-pollinator-party/
The Green Noble: Getting Started
The Green Noble Reading and Action Group will hold its second meeting Feb. 10 at 3 PM at the Noble Library. Attendees at our first meeting came with a range of gardening experience. But most had a specific home project in mind and all agreed that we could get those projects started faster if we helped one another. At our Feb, 10 meeting, attendees from the previous meeting will each lead a brief discussion of a new article on a topic that might help them and others from the Noble Neighborhood to “Get Started:”
Microgreen videos (Steve)
1. Simple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdGvT8oEdQ&vl=en
Deer resistant plants (Debbie)
2. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/deer/deer-resistant-edibles.htm
No-till lasagna gardening (Cynthia)
3. https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/lasagna-gardening-zmaz99amztak
Front yard gardening (Jill)
4. https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/urban-garden-front-yard/8759.html
Groundhog resistant suggestions (Pat)
5. https://www.kellogggarden.com/garden-pests/6-steps-to-protect-your-vegetable-garden-from-
groundhogs/
BIG PICTURE (Tom)
6. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/01/16/paris-pastoral-a-city-recultivated/
Join Us If You’d Like To Learn More!
The Green Noble Reading and Action Group will hold its second meeting Feb. 10 at 3 PM at the Noble Library. Attendees at our first meeting came with a range of gardening experience. But most had a specific home project in mind and all agreed that we could get those projects started faster if we helped one another. At our Feb, 10 meeting, attendees from the previous meeting will each lead a brief discussion of a new article on a topic that might help them and others from the Noble Neighborhood to “Get Started:”
Microgreen videos (Steve)
1. Simple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdGvT8oEdQ&vl=en
Deer resistant plants (Debbie)
2. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/deer/deer-resistant-edibles.htm
No-till lasagna gardening (Cynthia)
3. https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/lasagna-gardening-zmaz99amztak
Front yard gardening (Jill)
4. https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/urban-garden-front-yard/8759.html
Groundhog resistant suggestions (Pat)
5. https://www.kellogggarden.com/garden-pests/6-steps-to-protect-your-vegetable-garden-from-
groundhogs/
BIG PICTURE (Tom)
6. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/01/16/paris-pastoral-a-city-recultivated/
Join Us If You’d Like To Learn More!