Julianna Sauber leads volunteers cleaning up the Triple Ripple Community Garden at the Huss Project during the garden's clean up day in 2011. As the weather heats up, we get closer to starting the garden's fourth season with this year's clean up day! On May 4, we will be at Huss from 10:30am to 1:30pm...
(David helping with our first Underground Supper Club.) I have lived in Three Rivers for close to ten years. Somewhere in that timeline, Three Rivers changed from being “someplace I lived for now” to “someplace I’m enjoying living and would like to remain in.” There weren’t any Hallmark moments to commemorate this transition from temporary to...
Dale Hasenick chats with students from Calvin College about farming at White Yarrow, and the importance of growing vegetables organically. For many of the students, this was the first time they'd ever visited a farm. In this photo, Dale explains how he starts many of the vegetables he grows inside and under lamps before transplanting...
There wasn't much underground about it, but last Saturday night we invited several folks to our first-ever Underground Supper Club as a fundraiser for the Huss Project. We borrowed a downtown Three Rivers building from friends and transformed the beautiful apartment space on the second floor, which is presently empty, into a restaurant-like atmosphere for...
At Future Festival 2012, Liesje Brouwer and Hannah Thyberg set up a tent for face painting. There were many different choices to choose from, but like this young man, many chose to be Spider-man. Liesje (as seen above) has had an exuberant amount of experience with face paint, beginning when she worked at a theme...
Though voting goes through the end of the day, it's clear that we won't be getting enough votes to win the Fetzer grant contest. The Innovation Empowerment Programme in Kenya has over 7,000 votes ...
As a part of our annual Future Fest in July 2011, The Huss Project hosted a Culture Make Sale. We invited artists from around the country to sell pieces of art they made and donate the proceeds to raise funds for Huss. In the photo above, former *cino intern Elizabeth Wroughton is taking a look...
Last month, artist Jay Howard created a participatory art piece called "Contemplate with me" in one of the rooms at the Huss Project. Using space heaters and hot coffee to stay warm (the building doesn't have heat), Jay invited folks into his temporary studio to consider together the meaning and function behind public spaces, private...
In May 2010, the Huss Project took its first steps toward starting Triple Ripple Community Gardens. A volunteer plowed the land where plans had been made to place the garden. Since that day, The Huss Project has enjoyed growing tasty vegetables in the backyard, donating over 3,000 pounds of produce to various folks in the...
A service-learning group from Calvin College meets with local pastors to discuss the role the church community plays in Three Rivers, Michigan. Father David, from Trinity Episcopal, talked about the traditional notion of a parish as a geographical area a church serves -- which was of particular interest for the group as it studied the...
Geneva College students help remove carpet from one of the Huss classrooms during a service-learning spring break trip in March 2012. All of the classrooms at Huss feature maple floors that we hope to refinish. Unfortunately, the carpet was installed primarily by gluing it directly to the hardwood floors, so it will take quite a...
Liesje Brouwer and Deborah Haak (far left and far right, respectively), *cino volunteer staff and resident community members, present "Joy," a collaborative art piece, at Florence Church of the Brethren Mennonite on Sunday, January 21. Florence's theme for this year is "Embrace joy" and they will display this piece in their worship space for part...
