Woodstock Transition

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WOW at Farm Festival & all Town events

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Volunteer for a shift at Woodstock Farm Festival either 3:00-5:30 or 5:30-8:00

Contact Joy Gross at joy144@hvc.rr.com or 679-6415

WOW is collaborating with the Woodstock Farm Festival to separate all organic waste generated each Wednesday for transport to the UCRRA composting facility.

Organic waste generated includes vegetable and other food scraps, such as meat, fish, dairy, shells, bones, nutshells, plus food-soiled paper (i.e. coffee filters, teabags, soiled paper bags, paper towels, pizza boxes…).  Bring your waste in compostable bags only.

Woodstock Town will separate Organic Waste at the Summer Recreation Program, and the four annual Town events, Martin Luther King Day, Volunteers Day, Thanksgiving Dinner,  and Christmas Dinner.

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WOW at Woodstock Farm Festival – All Summer

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Starting Wednesday, June 18, 2014, and throughout the season of the Woodstock Farm Festival, the community will now be able to bring their home food scraps where it will be transported to Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency’s (UCCRA) commercial composting facility in Kingston.

Read more here: 06-12-14 WOW letter

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Special Event for Woodstock Busines & Commercial Property Owners

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On Wednesady, June 18th at Oriole 9, from 5:30 – 6:30 NYSERDA & Lighhouse Solar will introduce incentives and rebates available to business & commercial property owners aimed to increase energy efficiency and reduce energy bills. The event is free.  For more information click the link below.

06-18-14 Green Energy Group Event

RSVP:  dermotmcguigan@gmail.com or julielast@earthlink.net or  smagarelli@hvc.rr.com

 

Annual Celebration! Garden Share Group Honored

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On June 14th, Garden Share Working Group members will be honored and acknowledged for their group’s accomplishments and successes in the past year at Woodstock Tranistion’s Annual Celebration, at Andy Lee Field.  The event will also include live music, potluck picnic, and a seed & plant swap.  The event will be from 1:00-5:00 PM. Bring your own plates and utensils, please.

Prior to the event please visit the Woodstock Garden Club’s Yearly Plant Sale at Sunflower’s parking lot from 9:00-12 noon.

WGC’s Members, Rules & Meetings

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The WNYT Working Group Council is comprised of named representatives, or their designated alternatives, from each Working Group.  Named representatives and their designated alternatives must be Participating members.

The Working Group Council invites and welcomes members of affiliated groups, WNYT Supporters, and Observers to come to any WGC meeting as non-voting guests.

Where decisions are to be made about WNYT principles, the WGC will involve the General Membership in proposed changes.  The WGC cannot change the system by which the WGC is chosen.

Our world is in good, gentle & strong hands of farmers, young & old

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Local Farm information and links. You are welcomed to place yourself on their mailing lists to receive updates about their events.

1. Cody Creek Farm website and Longspoon Collective. Telephone #’s are Chase Randell 845-594-7979, Frank O’Leary 201-618-1597, Karuna Foudriat 845-901-9301.    http://codycreekfarm.com

2. Whirligig Farm in Hurley, NY Phone: Creek Iversen 845-902-8154, Dan Moon 914-607-1061.

Website & Facebook  http://whirligigfarm.com    https://www.facebook.com/wirligigfarm    Greenhorns:  http://www.thegreenhorns.net

3. Andrew Faust, who runs the Center for Biological Living located in Ellenville, NY. You can contact him through the site for courses and to set up a visit. He has already spoken at  2 of our meetings and we are planning a return visit.  http://www.homebiome.com

4. Melody Newcombe, who is sponsoring 4-sessions called “Sunday Morning Gardening Coffee Tea Clotch & Breakfast Pot Luck”. They are Hands-On Workshops on Sundays, May 18 & 25 and June 1 & 8 at her “Garden in the Woods” Call or email for information. 845-853-3761 mnewcombe@hvc.rr.com.

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gardens-in-the-Woods/122954124420823

4. a. The Japanese Farm in Maplecrest and is planning to visit Melody’s on Monday the 12th. A link to an article about the farm is below.

http://www.catskillmtn.org/guide-magazine/articles/2007-09-shumei-natural-agriculture-takes-root-in-hunter-and.html

Recent Events Sponsored by Garden Share WG

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Meetings at homes included pot lucks.

Some gardeners are sharing their garden’s labor and vegetables with people who don’t have gardens.

1. Hegulkultur events at Bressack garden.

2. Lasagna Gardening at the Community Garden.

3. The DVDs “Organic Gardening” and “Back to Eden” were shown at 2 meetings.

4. Organic Gardening with Melody Newcombe at her home and garden.

5. Permaculture with Mila Funk at Lala and Jared’s home and garden.

6. Garlic Planting with Barbara Rosen.

7. Canning with Lorin and Shirley Rose at the Barbers’ home.

8. Bee Keeping with Joe Krein and Joricjk Phillips of Hudson Valley Bee Supply at Bressack home.

9. Biodynamic Farming with Anthony Mecca and Larry Steel at Eliana and Vito’s home.

10. “Bioregional Economies and Using Permaculture Principles to Retrofit the Northeast” with Andrew Faust at the Woodstock Library.

11. Seed Sharing and the short film about “Saving and Storing Seeds” at the Woodstock Library.

12. “Biodynamic, Biointensive, Organic and Permaculture Gardening, Introduced and Compared with Focus on Compost” with Andrew Faust at the Woodstock Library.

13. “Greenhorns” Documentary shown with guest speakers, Patrick Kiley from greenhorns, and Creek Iversen & Dan Moon form Whirligig Farm, Hurley, NY at Woodstock Library.

14. Long Spoon Collective discussion with Chase Randell & Frank O’Leary from Cody Creek Farm and Karuna Foudriat. Bressack home.

 

Lake Hill 10% Challenge Session

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On 3/20/14 the 10% Challenge WG held an Information Session introducing Lake Hill and Willow residents to Woodstock Transition’s Energy Challenge.  RUPCO representatives gave an overview of NYSERDA’s Green NY Program and Central Hudson representatives reviewed their Energy Savings offerings.  Also the owner of Energy Conservation Specialist, a local contractor that provides home energy audits, insulation, and air sealing services, aimed at lowering energy usage to heat & cool our homes.

What’s New

11th Annual Film and Discussion Series / Event 1

The Woodstock Film & Discussion Series will launch its 11th Annual Season on Monday  January 30th at 7pm. The 11th season will begin with a virtual screening of the stirring, award-winning film “Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce.”

Register for the January 30th event at the following link bit.ly/3VPxbGh

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