Dear UESiders,
Opening with apologies to reviver of UGS’s Facebook page/all-around UES green person Linda HOLLAND. Somehow, we managed to space off and mangle her last name. Begging your pardon, Linda.
Item #2. Seems like our mayor’s proposed eliminating all organics/compost collection funding from the NYC budget!! No kidding. But yes, of course, for those opposed to such a cut, there’s a petition to sign!! So, sign it, people!!
Item #3. The blood shortage persists. Blood Center donations are by appointment only and there’s no place on earth more scrubbed down. If there was ever a good reason to leave one’s shelter…
Item #4. New Yorkers can’t let the 2020 Census slip through the cracks. Conveniently online and takes less than 2 minutes to complete!!
Then there’s this from Mega Market Manager Margaret:
“First for the good news: Valley Shepherd Creamery will be back this weekend with their wonderful selection of sheep, goat and cow’s milk cheeses.
As for the less good news: American Pride seafood is out for the duration. They are all well but staying home to keep their families safe.
And, shoppers, please do remember that the market opens at 9 am!!. Due to increased safety precautions, it takes us a bit longer to get set up so please do not come out to shop before 9am!!
Last but hardly least and for everyone’s protection here’s a summary of our market’s guidelines:
*Be kind, patient and respectful.
*If you’re feeling sick, stay home.
*Keep a 6 foot distance between yourself, other shoppers, farmers and staff. We’ve marked spaces for standing in line.
*There is no self-service. Farmers will help you get what you need.
*We have hand sanitizer available athe info tent; practice good hygiene!
*If possible, please send only one family member to the market to shop!
*DON’T bring food scraps or clothing donations. Collection’s been suspended.
One more time:
MARKETS ARE BUSIEST 8-10am. IF YOU CAN SHOP LATER, PLEASE DO!!
Thank you for your patience, thoughtfulness and support,
Margaret”
Meanwhile…
Preparatory to restoring organic collection to next year’s NYC budget, add these how-to-keep-composting suggestions from GrowNYC CEO Marcel Van Ooyen to Ms. Holland’s In Situ Compost Smoothie recipe…
Meanwhile…
Here’s where you – with your more than 10-unit building’s approval and further emphaszing composting support – can apply for DSNY residential compost collection… (Another statement on your support for the composting program!!)
Meanwhile…
How to recycle with most respect for building staff and Sanitation workers’s health…
Meanwhile…
Schurz Park in bloom… Online learning, exhibitions and just plain fun resources… Birth of a baby leopard… Emboldened city rats… Tele Town Halls future and past…
More green reading galore just below: https://thisweekatthemarket.wordpress.com
Our best,
UGS
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Dear UESiders,
Yes, repetition’s our thing for the moment… Better that than anyone misses out on the week’s primo green info and alerts…
Commencing with our mayor’s proposed elimination of all organics/compost collection funding from the NYC budget!! But, natch, there’s already a petition in opposition to sign!! And please do get it to all your composting friends!!
Then Market Manager Supremo Margaret’s update:
“First for the good news: Valley Shepherd Creamery will be back this weekend with their wonderful selection of sheep, goat and cow’s milk cheeses.
As for the less good news: American Pride seafood is out for the duration. They are all well but staying home to keep their families safe.
And, shoppers, please do remember that the market opens at 9 am!!. Due to increased safety precautions, it takes us a bit longer to get set up so please do not come out to shop before 9am!!.
Last but hardly least and for everyone’s protection here’s a summary of our market’s guidelines:
*Be kind, patient and respectful.
*If you’re feeling sick, stay home.
*Keep a 6 foot distance between yourself, other shoppers, farmers and staff. We’ve marked spaces for standing in line.
*There is no self-service. Farmers will help you get what you need.
*We have hand sanitizer available athe info tent; practice good hygiene!
*If possible, please send only one family member to the market to shop!
*DON’T bring food scraps or clothing donations. Collection’s been suspended.
One more time:
MARKETS ARE BUSIEST 8-10am. IF YOU CAN SHOP LATER, PLEASE DO!!
Thank you for your patience, thoughtfulness and support,
Margaret”
Further on the subject of compost:
Add these how-to-keep-composting suggestions from GrowNYC CEO Marcel Van Ooyen to Ms. Holland’s In Situ Compost Smoothie Recipe…
Last but hardly least:
Here’s where you – with your more than 10-unit building’s approval – can apply for DSNY residential compost collection… That while making the need for/popularity of the program crystal clear at the same time.
On to the week in our Electeds’ covid updates:
AM Seawrught… State Senator Krueger… CM Kallos (scroll down)... CM Powers… Comptroller Stringer… BP Brewer… Rep. Maloney…
Let them hear about the proposed compost cut, too!!
And a final item of activism:
Yet another pipeline project’s trying to slip under cover of Covid…
And the next Tele Town Hall:
Tuesday, April 14th, 7pm – The topic will be public safety with special guests Inspector Kathleen Walsh, Commanding Officer NYPD 19th Precinct and Chief Kevin Brown, Roosevelt Island Operation Corporation Public Safety Department.
(Easy to catch up with the 2 previous Tele Town Halls…)
How ’bout some enjoyable, mostly green distraction:
What’s (beautifully) in bloom in Schurz Park…
The NYPL’s host of fabulous online offerings…
Then there’re the home activities on the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum’s site… (Yes, let’s learn how to make silhouettes!!)
Commencing with some armchair tourism via books recommended by The Times…
Roosevelt Island’s enviably futuristic penumatic tube trash collection system… (What?! No invitation-to-rats bags piled on streets??!!)
Building your own oyster research station…
Saving endangered native plants…
A brief visit to Brighton Beach…
Consider this fun when it’s over and things like your grout’s sparkling… Deep Spring Cleaning!!
In 2019, DEC Forest Rangers conducted 337 search and rescue missions, extinguished 74 wildfires that burned a total of 212 acres, participated in 29 prescribed fires that burned and rejuvenated 645 acres, and worked on cases that resulted in 2,507 tickets or arrests!!
Critter time:
A museum for gerbils… (Don’t miss the video!)
How other species handle social distancing when one of their number’s ill…
NYS DEC asks us humans to keep our distance from marine mammals… (For their protection!!)
Dragonflies’ lives on the wing…
Wildlife friendly gardening… (It’s taking off on the UES!!)
And the Fish of the Week is:
4/3 – Fish-of-the-Week for Week 65 is the yellow perch (Perca flavescens) number 163 (of 230) on our watershed list of fishes.
A Yellow Perch
Yellow perch is a freshwater fish, one of eight members of the perch family (Percidae) in our watershed. Four, including the yellow perch, are native. Three others are canal migrants from the Great Lakes. The final species, the nonnative walleye, is a major gamefish that has been widely introduced in the watershed. Yellow perch are native to North America from northwest Canada, through the Midwest to the Canadian Maritimes, and south into the Carolinas. They can trace their ancestry in the watershed back to the end of the Ice Age, at least 15,000 years ago.
Yellow perch may be the most popular recreational fish in the Hudson River watershed with most ranging up to a foot-long. The New York State angling record is 3 pounds 8 ounces from Lake Erie. Presently, there is a harbor seal in the tidewater Esopus Creek at Saugerties that has been regularly foraging on that tributary’s robust yellow perch population. – Tom Lake
And this last:
(Courtesy of the Organizing Goddess)
Wishing one and all safe, healthy and happy holidays,
UGS
This Week at The Markets 