Reimagining Cleveland

ReImagining Cleveland site will have a new home and has had some changes.

Although most of the content has been transferred over, I wanted to give you a heads up in case you wanted to save any of the content to your computer. Please do so within the next 5 business days.  After those 5 days, the old ReImagining Cleveland site will not exist and the link  will forward you to the new site (http://www.npi-cle.org/places/urban-greening/about-reimagining-cleveland/).  After next Friday, 2/22, this site will automatically link to the new site.

The message board, photos, projects list, and other resources can be found in the blue box on the left site if the site (see pic below for example).

Thank you for contributing and I encourage you to continue to contribute to the movement.  Please contact Christa Ebert with any questions. Have a wonderful day!
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Christa Ebert | Program Assistant
216.453.1448 | cebert@npi-cle.org

Neighborhood Progress | Investing in city life.
1956 West 25th Street, Suite 200 | Cleveland, Ohio 44113

The Stockyard, Clark-Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office brought four goats – Clover, Buffy, Rosie and Princess – from a farm in Geneva for a 25-day pilot project experiment on six small residential lots in the neighborhood.  Neighborhood Progress located the goats, provided funding and technical assistance for zoning, and helped with other logistic issues.

Program director Megan Meister is testing the use of goats at several vacant lots on Cleveland’s near west side after conducting 18 months of research. “The goats will save the city money, and their effort has no environmental impact,” said Meister. “The equivalent of a riding mower operating for one hour emits the same emissions into the air that 34 cars do for one hour.”

Meister said nearly all northeast Ohio cities are being forced to take care of a growing number of vacant lots because of the housing crisis aftermath. The cost to mow such lots is going up dramatically. Meister claims it costs Cleveland an average of $300 just to mow and maintain the average vacant inner city lot.

The “Mow Goats” are from a farm in Madison, Ohio, and are being managed by Marguerite Hutcheson.  The goat droppings are collected at each site, and are taken to local community gardens.

Freshwatercleveland.com

Plain Dealer

And become a fan of MowGoats on facebook.

There are a few of these t-shirts left :
The CDC is asking for $18 to cover the cost of printing the shirts. If interested contact  Sasha Ottoson-Deal  at SOttoson-Deal@dscdo.org

Please join us for Meet & Greet with the MowGoats: Clover, Buffy, Princess and Rosie!
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Time: 4 – 6 pm
Location: W. 61st Street and Frontier Avenue
(just south of Clark Avenue)
About MowGoats
MowGoats is a pilot project sponsored by the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office to identify a new environmentally sustainable and community building alternative to city mowing – a crew of goats!

Clover, Buffy, Rosie, and Princess are the four goats that will be visiting us from a farmer in Geneva, Ohio. The ladies will be here in Cleveland for 25 days, and will be grazing (M-F 9- 5, just like the rest of us!) on six lots in the Stockyard and Clark-Fulton neighborhoods.

The goats will be tended at all times by a  neighborhood goatherd.

Our Hypothesis
It is estimated that the goats will “mow” through a standard vacant lot in 2 ½ days. The Stockyard, Clark-Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office believes that MowGoats can provide a cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable alternative to traditional methods of vacant lot maintenance. The grazing sites are in areas with strong block clubs and community gardens, and the neighbors that they’ve talked to have been enthusiastic about the project. Gardeners in the neighborhood are excited about being able to use goat manure to boost the fertility of their soil!

The project has been generously funded and support provided by Neighborhood Progress, Inc., the City of Cleveland, The Cuyahoga County OSU Extension, Councilmen Cummins, Zone and Westbrook and several goat farmers.
Please help welcome our newest neighbors!
For more information on MowGoats, please contact Sasha Ottoson-Deal at SCFBC at (216) 961-9073, ext. 228.

Please join Famicos Foundation on June 16th for

Greenhouses and Green Houses! Workshops and demonstrations

Free for All  

Locally catered lunch!

Prizes!

RSVP today!