Spring Garden Show

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Check out the Spring Garden Show today at the New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park.

wagon-lady4webThe annual Spring Garden Show in the New Orleans Botanical Garden invites visitors to explore the beautiful Botanical Garden, more than 50 horticultural exhibits, family friendly activities, and enjoy educational lectures. The festival includes plant sales, garden product sales, a Plant Health Clinic, the Children’s Discovery Zone, an art market, and live music on the Haspel Outdoor Stage. CONTACT: Susan Capley, Education Director for the New Orleans Botanical Garden: SCapley@nocp.org or (504) 483-9473.

TODAY, Sunday, April 12, 10am to 5pm

Go to the New Orleans Botanical Garden at 3 Victory Avenue in New Orleans City Park
There is free parking available on Park streets and in the parking lot next to City Putt.

Admission is $8.00 for Adults and $4.00 for Children 5 to 12.
Children under 5 and Friends of City Park receive free admission.

TODAY, Sunday April 12, 2015 from 12pm to 1pm you can learn about “Caring for Citrus and Managing its Pests” from Sarah Bertrand, Jefferson Parish Horticulture Extension, LSU AgCenter

From 1:30pm to 2:30pm, you can learn about “No Thyme for Parsley” from Linda Franzo & Collen Wood, Herb Society of America, New Orleans Unit

From 3pm to 3:30pm, check out the VIDEO “Elem-Tree: Trees, Our Heritage, Our Lives” featuring Tom Campbell, Retired LA Urban Forestry Program Director and Paul Orr, Retired LA Forester. This video was made possible by the Friends of Jefferson the Beautiful and Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry The “Plant Doctor” Dr. Nick Singh, from the LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center, will also be on hand today to answer questions about plant disease, insect and weed problems. Patrons are encouraged to bring samples of plants with disease and insect problems to the Plant Health Clinic! Please bring the samples in a sealed zip-lock type bag.

LSU AgCenter faculty and volunteers can help diagnose and recommend treatment for sick plants. For a nominal fee, soil samples may be brought in for analysis by the LSU AgCenter’s Soil Testing Lab. Please also provide these in a zip-lock type plastic bag. For additional information or to book exhibit space, please contact the LSU AgCenter at (504) 658-2900.

The Spring Garden Show is sponsored by the LSU AgCenter in cooperation with the Metro Area Horticultural Foundation and the New Orleans Botanical Garden.

Save the dates! The 2016 Spring Garden Show will be held in New Orleans City Park on April 2nd and April 3rd.

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Water Wise

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You are invited to a Neighborhood Water Wise workshop! This workshop is free and open to the public.

Water Wise NOLA — a group of water professionals and concerned citizens promoting simple solutions to the problem of localized flooding.

How we manage rainwater on our property affects city drainage on a larger scale.  It is the collective impact that can either worsen or improve drainage issues for our streets and our neighborhoods.   Improving drainage begins with how we allow rainwater to interact with our individual home lot.  Water Wise NOLA put together a workshop that lasts an hour and a half to address do-it-yourself, practical, affordable solutions.

 Retaining water strategically on your property means:

                ●     Less water entering the municipal drainage system

●     Less overfilling of city drainage pipes and canals

●     Less burden on our pumping system

●     Less pollutants in Lake Pontchartrain

●     Less subsidence or sinking and shifting of our streets and foundations

●     Less worry

 Presented by water professionals and enthusiasts, the workshop will cover the following topics:

                ●     How to look at the big picture

●     The basics of green infrastructure

●     How to assess drainage on your home lot

●     Recipes for drainage improvements

●     Rain barrel building and installation

 We are planning to hold Water Wise workshops for Treme residents on October 28th at 6:00pm at the St. Peter Claver Catholic School Cafeteria. We will also hold a workshop for Seventh Ward residents sometime in November. 

 Join us and help us to get your neighbors there!

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Jeffrey Supak | Coordinator of the Louisiana Wetlands Action Program | Global Green USA

2705 S. Broad Street | New Orleans, LA 70125   |   (504) 525-2121 ext. 170  | Cell: (979) 578-3193

  Global Green’s WEBSITE http://www.globalgreen.org/articles/aboutus/45

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

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The Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans is soliciting a Request for Proposal for Green Infrastructure Projects. This solicitation can be obtain from S&WB’s external website www.swbno.org Tab to Bids& Business, Then to Bid Ads & Specs. Click on the box on proposal of interest. Please direct & address all questions to the Purchasing Agent ONLY at this e-mail address: wmingo@swbno.org.

Please read below

Thanks for your cooperation & participation
Willie MINGO
SWB Purchasing AGENT

SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWB) is issuing a request for proposals (RFP) from qualified environmental professionals (individuals or groups (engineers, landscape architects, planners), non-profit or community organizations) to implement a Green Infrastructure (GI) project. The project must be one ofthe following types, or a combination thereof:

Type 1: Plan, develop, implement and maintain one (1) or more GI demonstration projects on public land within Orleans Parish.

Type 2: Develop a GI educational curriculum to be implemented in Orleans Parish schools.

Type 3: Develop GI workshops curriculum for educating professionals, commercial businesses, homeowners, and neighborhood groups about the rapidly growing GI field. RFP will be available Monday, January 27, 2014 for download at the following website: http://swbno.org/business_bid.asp?id=348.

There will be an optional Pre-Submittal Conference on Thursday, February 13,2014 at 10:00 AM in the 2nd floor training room at the SWB Carrollton Water Plant (8800 South Claiborne Avenue).

 

Inquiries and/or Requests for Clarification are due to SWBNO at the office of its Purchasing Agent Mr. Willie Mingo, Jr. on Friday, February 21. 2014.

Inquiries may be either in writing or via email to mailto: wmingo@swbno.org.

All responses will be posted by Friday, February 28,2014.

Proposals will be due Friday, March 14 not later than 11:00 AM to the SWB at the office of its Purchasing Agent, Mr. Willie Mingo, Jr., 625 St. Joseph Street, Room 133, New Orleans, Louisiana 70165.

The total estimated available funding for awards under this competitive opportunity is $500,000.

Awards will be made in amounts of up to $100,000 per award for an 18 month project period.

Attendance Please

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FSJNA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING AGENDA

7 pm | Monday, January 14, 2013 | 1368 Moss | Holy Rosary Cafeteria (the big dome on the bayou)

Call to Order | Roll Call | Explanation of Meeting Rules
Guests: Wayne Wright – Rep from the office of Cedric Richmond

Approval of December 2012 Executive & General Meeting Minutes

Committee Nominations & Reports/Updates/Actions (if any)
• Membership Outreach Committee – update
• Landscape Committee- update
• Re-Bridge – update
• Public Safety – update
• Zoning Committee – update

Old Business
• Community Garden at N. Dupre and St. Philip
• Creation of a cultural district for Faubourg St. John
• Policy on land and zoning issues outside the neighborhood boundaries

New Business
• From Floor

Adjournment

Capdeville Revitalization

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Thanks to 8 neighbors that spent an hour and a half last Thursday to divide and plant 48 gallon sized Monkey Grass, yellow lantana and purple duranta (to bring in butterflies), and ardesia crenata (Christmas berry, a shade lover).

photo below by David Armond

photos below by Brenda London
We mulched, amended soil, divided Paper Whites to replant this fall, and trimmed 5 Natchez Crape Mytles that we planted maybe a dozen years ago. $500 went quickly from 5 trips to 3 Home Depots!

Unfortunately 10 bags of soil and 6 bags of mulch disappeared into a white pickup. I had too many loads of stuff to manage in a Subaru and left it out at the park the nite before, gone at 630 am. I vented my disgust by howing weeds vigorously! Neighbors report frequent plant thefts near Broad. We replaced what we really needed, and will wait to augment soil in another phase.

So thanks to people from all over our neighborhood who worked, found their garden Zen, and had a good time:


Steve Mardon (our Desmare liason)
Brenda London (Grand Rte St John)
Deena Bedigan (Delgado-she did a perfect job separating monkey grass)
Danny Akers (worked and treated us to fresh squeezed lemonade) also involved with Café Amelie on Royal, (Crete St)
Helen Ball (rode her bike from St John’s Court)
David Armond- N Lopez
Katy Smith (new young neighbor from Jackson) Bell St

The soaking rain this weekend insures that this project is off to a great start. We have promises from Andy Romero, David Lapene and Danny Akers to keep the new plantings watered thru the summer. We can always use extras…

Future needs include a streetlight (way to dark here),repair some crumbling interior sidewalk, sprinkler system, a creative welcome to FSJ sign, sculpture. These are LONG term dreams. Very open to input and help make the connections. I do better with my hands in the dirt!!

I will be asking Parks and Parkways to remove a phoenix palm growing at the base of an oak.

Love this neighborhood!
Bobby

Bobby Wozniak
1322 North Lopez Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
Cell: 504.452.0386