Someone has made a home in the new insectary that’s part of the Quiet Park at the Huss Project! Making your own insectary is easy—just create a container (we used a tube of wire fence held upright with stakes) and layer in stones, sticks, leaves, pine cones, pieces of bamboo, dry grasses and so on....
This little guy was just hanging out on the big leaves of the prairie dock in front of the Huss Project. Prairie dock is one of the native plants growing in the front beds, with huge leaves and a tall flower Spike with golden, daisy-like blooms. This year, we saved a dozen varieties of seed...
As the warm weather fades into autumn, we take a breath and reflect on just how much has happened at the Huss Project this summer. This season has been full to the brim with cultivating our urban farm, hosting summer lunches for our neighborhood, facilitating service-learning for Camp Tavor, and putting on our 9th annual...
Thank you, Daniel Ferrell, for your gracious and attentive work capturing the spirit of the 9th Annual Huss Future Festival—Dan always does amazing work and we highly recommend him for your video project! We hope you all enjoy watching highlights from our summer festival!...
Check out the creativity on display at this year's photo booth! Photo booth photos are now online at our Flickr account. Peruse them all and find your photo! A special thank you to the Counselors in Training at Habonim Dror Camp Tavor for painting this year's photo booth backdrop—it was perfect!...
Despite the threat of thunderstorms that forced a lot of activities inside, we had a great day at the ninth annual Huss Future Festival on Saturday because of the generous and joyful participation of organizations, businesses, artists, musicians, volunteers, and visitors alike. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of our neighbors who helped...
In part, Future Festival is a fundraiser for the programming we do at the Huss Project. In keeping with yesterday's record-setting All-Star game, we're swinging for the fences this year! We're hoping to raise more than we've ever raised before, so we're asking folks who aren't able to make it to the event to still...
For several years, we’ve been tossing around an idea to turn a portion of the Huss Project property into a small park designed for quiet reflection and observation of the wild creatures in our neighborhood. In the past few weeks, we’ve identified dozens of trees and plants, marked and mowed and path, and narrowed down...
The butterfly weed is blooming at the Huss Project Farm! This is a bright orange variety of milkweed that attracts pollinators, and more pollinators means more veggies. This year, we’re growing food on about an acre of our land for our community of volunteers and our neighbors, especially those who have a hard time affording...
Thank you to our friends at Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Three Rivers for all of the many ways your congregations supports our work! You have helped make our community feel like home for so many and we’re grateful for your generosity, love, and compassion....
The Huss Project is all about a big IDEA: imagination! We seek to grow our community’s ability to dream big! But just as important, the Huss Project is a PLACE and we need your presence this summer as a volunteer partner in this good work. Our big projects this summer include the Huss Project Farm, the...
Spring is springing, summer is on the way, and we’re getting ready for our big annual rummage sale as part of Huss Future Fest 2018! Upcoming needs include RUMMAGE DONATIONS and VOLUNTEERS to help with sorting and organizing donated items. Here are some dates to mark down on your calendar and plan your spring cleaning...
