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CAPITOL NEIGHBORHOODS/MANSION HILL HAPPY HOUR
Greetings!
BLAIR STREET GARDENS ANNUAL MEETING
What a dramatic change in weather! Which means – it’s time to think about the upcoming season at Blair Street Gardens. If you’d like to get involved, our annual meeting is Monday, March 25 from 6.30 to 8.30 pm at 807 Jenifer St (across from B. B. Clarke Beach). We’ll be adopting the budget and planning for the season.
Our 3 gardens are: The Gateway Garden on Willy St. (across from Machinery Row Bikes), the MGE bed on Blair St., and Wilson Green on E. Wilson (across from Nomad World Pub).
Ellen Henningsen
BSG President
HOMEOWNERS, ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A GRANNY COTTAGE?
The Design Coalition Institute has a survey out about interest in accessory dwelling units. They have made a lot of headway in raising interest among financial institutions. The survey information will be used to identify potential interest in adding ADUs. Please consider taking it.
Steve Steinhoff
Granny Cottages, Garage Apartments, & In-Law Suites:
Would you add an “Accessory Dwelling Unit” (ADU) to your house?
Survey Of Homeowners
Are you interested in adding an ADU?
What kind of assistance would you need?
Your answers to the 5 questions on this survey
will help inform new policies & programs.
START SURVEY at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PSKTVTT
Thank you!
WATER UTILITY PFAS MEETING SATURDAY MORNING
We are hosting a PFAS discussion this Saturday. Please feel free to share meeting information or the Facebook event page below with anyone who may be interested in coming.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1070873226454917/
Join us on Saturday, March 16th from 9:00am – 10:30am at the East Madison Community Center with representatives from Madison Water Utility, Public Health Madison Dane County, and the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services as they discuss the detection of PFAS chemicals at municipal Well 15 on East Washington Ave.
Enter your address here to see water quality information for the wells that serve your home:
http://www.cityofmadison.com/water/waterquality/mywells.cfm
This is your opportunity to ask any questions you have about the safety of our drinking water and the effects of PFAS on our environment. Spanish and Hmong interpreters will be at the meeting.
Speakers: Joe Grande, Water Quality Manager, Madison Water Utility; Doug Voegeli, Director of Environmental Health, PHMDC; Jeff Lafferty, Environmental Epidemiologist, PHMDC; Rob Thiboldeaux, Toxicologist, WI DHS.
MWU will temporarily rely on other well facilities to serve the Well 15 area as it waits for a recommended PFAS standard from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The recommendation is expected this spring.
WANNA LEARN TO GROW MUSHROOMS?
We’re scheduling our annual Mycomorphosis mushroom log plugging workshops for 2019. If you’d like to come learn about how to grow mushrooms on logs you are invited to join us for a 3 hour shift in McFarland WI. During your time you will learn the specifics of cultivation, gain hands on experience using all the tools needed for inoculations, and get a mushroom log of your very own to take home that will produce mushrooms for 3-5+ years. The workshop is free due to the work-trade you’ll be providing with your volunteer shift.
We’ll be plugging mushroom logs on 4/6, 4/7, 4/13, & 4/14 this year. We’re doing 2 shifts per day 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm with a maximum of 4 volunteers per shift since we’ve found that a crew of 5 has the best flow. If you’re interested in joining us please let us know at mycomorphosis.madison@gmail.com with your 1st and 2nd preferences of days & times and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
These workshops will take place outside unless it rains so we ask that everyone wear appropriate clothing and bring some water to drink. Also, we will be inoculating logs with 4 different species this year: shiitake, oyster, lion’s mane, and olive oysterling but we will only be offering shiitake or oyster logs for take home.
