Gardeners Savage and Youngblood: 117 veggie varieties ready.
Gather New Haven’s chief farmer and Newhallville native Jonathon Savage is going to be planting pink and blue oyster mushrooms for the first time this year — because people love them, because they’re very good for you, and because he likes to learn to grow new crops.
Along with them there will be the usual three varieties of kale and kohlrabi; multiple scallion, tomato, and pepper varieties, to say nothing of the crimson red okra alongside the traditional green, plus basil in five varieties — count ‘em — Genovese, cinnamon, lemon, Thai, and sweet.
Anastasia Saez digging in with Denyia Miller and Mary Ann Moran.
Anastasia Saez had indeed planted a potato before, but it was only a virtual one in the kids’ video game Minecraft.
On a sunny Tuesday morning not only did Mary Ann Moran help her plant the real thing, she learned how to deploy a nifty bulber to make a hole for it in the soil; she added bone meal for plant growth; she deftly handled a soil-aerating worm – absolutely without exclaiming “yuck” – and even helped spread straw across the new potato beds to keep the sun from creating a chemical that might damage the growing plants.
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Ready for departure for a larger airport?
“No to Tweed expansion; yes to EIS.”
“How does destroying the Cove make New Haven a better place?”
“Stop paving our wetlands.”
“This is all greed.”
That panoply of protest signs in the lobby of East Haven High School’s auditorium offered a harbinger for the direction of the public meeting to come regarding the proposed expansion of Tweed New Haven Airport.
The sky was overcast and the temperature already dipping into the high 40s, but the chill didn’t stop Maria Tupper and her volunteer gardening friends from using a cool new dibble to put in cold-resistant leeks.
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Mar 27, 2023 2:25 pm
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Clemente sixth-grader Luis with oily oyster science experiment.
With science fair judge Robin Querker.
Will oysters survive if submerged in motor oil?
Roberto Clemente sixth-grader Luis set out to answer that question — as he crafted a locally relevant science fair project focused on environmental harms to New Haven bivalves.
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A sample of Tierra Soap Co.'s offerings.
For some, a bar of soap is a common household item that helps them get their body clean. For Tierra Soap Co., a bar of soap has become a fusion of art, wellness, and culture as well as a way to connect to earth, nature, and community.
Tweed supporters, critics, and innocent bystanders have 15 extra days to weigh in on the potential environmental impacts of a larger regional airport, now that the federal government has lengthened the public comment period for the airport’s draft Environmental Assessment (EA).
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Mar 8, 2023 11:32 am
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More $ sought for more recycling (in the blue toters).
Regionalized composting, recycling bin chips, and refuse savvy students could all lie in New Haven’s future — if the city gets requested dollars and support needed to amp up sustainable waste management education and practices.
Roughly five inches of snow fell on New Haven Monday night and Tuesday morning, and 130 cars were ticketed thanks to the now-lifted overnight parking ban.
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Feb 24, 2023 12:31 pm
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Cross football captain Giovanni Melendez (right) with fellow student-athletes at Friday's presser.
Wilbur Cross athletic fields and track, now under construction.
Wilbur Cross student-athletes like football captain Giovanni Melendez looked forward to firmer synthetic-turf footing and a home-field setting to be proud of next season — at a press conference marking $4.35 million in mostly state-funded renovations to the East Rock school’s athletic complex.
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Each of Tweed's lots was bursting with cars on a Thursday morning when this reporter visited the scene.
One of who knows how many lawn signs on a Morris Cove home protesting Tweed expansion.
Tweed New Haven Airport is growing 34 more parking spaces to better accommodate the flood of cars consistently competing for spots on site — as environmentalists and neighbors continue to fight expansion of the regional airport located along a wetlands-filled Morris Cove property.
Yale scientists have issued a report that indicates the white substance shown here, and allegedly from New Haven's past, is something called "snow."
Note: Here at the Independent we don’t often publish news stories from the future, but we have made an exception today, as this one in the New York Times, dated February 2033, deals with a crucial topic.
9 years going strong: Peelin' & wheelin' on Mechanic Street.
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Domingo Medina picked up a green plastic bucket waiting for him on a Mechanic Street front porch, measured its weight, and dumped its wealth of food scraps into one of his four bike-towed containers.
Piled before him was so much more than just a colorful array of eggshells, lemon peels, onion skins, and hunks of bread. In that same pile lay the ingredients for a cleaner environment, healthier soils, and “greener” jobs.
Drew Ramsey and Javon Hailey clear Kimberly Park's invasive vines.
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Dayton Death Row.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
In Hamden, tree branches turn into mulch with the help of a tub grinder. Could New Haven do the same?
Leaves and branches that fall from New Haven trees might someday be revived as municipally managed mulch and top soil, thanks to a Westville alder’s new legislative proposal.
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Student council prez Julieta Diaz leads Martinez school meeting.
John S. Martinez School eighth grader Julieta Diaz and her fellow student council classmates had a decision to make: Should they donate the proceeds of a middle school recycling drive to a local homeless shelter, or should they throw their financial support to the city’s animal shelter instead?
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Tuesday’s Zoom meeting.
A dance venue. A community garden. A set of lights for the skate park. A … West Rock-bound gondola?
Those were a few of the ideas that made it onto a community-built wish list for $800,000 worth of improvements for Edgewood Park, as put together by roughly 100 parkgoers.
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Environmental advocate Marjorie Shansky: “I don’t know when the last time New Haven amended their inland wetland regulations was. I don’t even know if it complies with the law.”
Map shows delineation of wetlands from standard soil by Wilbur Cross track, which has been approved for conversion into synthetic turf.
Inland wetlands advocates are urging city decision-makers to beef up their environmental education, training and expertise in order to help protect New Haven’s endangered ecosystems.
