A 27,000 square foot building with no heat and only one bathroom that functions … just in the summer? We could dwell on our many limitations at the Huss Project, but we choose to embrace the boundless possibilities instead! One of the ways we do this is to focus on summer programming when we can...
Editor's note: For the third year running, our friend and local poet Elisabeth Wenger wrote a beautiful poem to help us celebrate Future Festival. She's become the Huss Poet Laureate. Thank you, Elisabeth! Come! Let me embrace you in my arms of gentle rage, taught as bowstring, tight as catgut, a tug you and I both recognize. Let me...
Our garden tower, gifted to the Huss garden by a generous friend, is chock full of onions, nasturtium and salad greens....
The Huss Garden at the Huss Project is growing again! We've added extra space in the garden to grow vegetables this season and we're hoping to grow more good food than ever before. The produce we grow is distributed through our agency partners at Keystone Place, Domestic and Sexual Assault Abuse Services, and the Community Kitchen at...
*cino volunteer staffer Deborah Haak at last summer's Farmers Market. The Huss Project is once again participating in the Three Rivers Farmers Market! Join us from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. every Thursday from May 28 to September 3 to purchase fresh, local produce to support the Huss Project. On June 11, July 9 and August 6,...
The season ended at the Three Rivers Farmers Market last week, but we've been enjoying our little stand too much to quit just as so much produce is becoming available in Southwest Michigan. So, we're working with a number of folks to continue a market in downtown Three Rivers: the Downtown Harvest Market! The Market will be...
A couple of weeks ago, Rob arrived at the Huss Project to find the yard around the community garden strewn with vegetables. We'd been battling a woodchuck nemesis, and also a possum, but this was too sophisticated for those critters, if you can call throwing tomatoes at the windows "sophisticated." Let's just say, it was...
Dane from Flowerfield Enterprises was gracious enough to come out last Monday evening to Triple Ripple Community Garden to teach a group of us about making compost tea, which is a natural fertilizer that helps balance the bacteria and fungi in our soil. We were all very impressed by the depth of his knowledge about...
Join us every Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. this summer at the Three Rivers Farmers Market! The Huss Project is partnering with several local farms -- including Bair Lane Farm, White Yarrow Farm and Sustainable Greens -- and with Triple Ripple Community Garden to sell good, local food to our neighbors. We'll also...
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and we are smiling. We've started to get the Triple Ripple Community Garden up and running at the Huss Project for its fifth season. A few beds have been cleared, fence has been put up, and we've even put some seeds in the ground. In the picture...
Last Monday was definitely our last *cino volunteer staff meeting in the un-heated Huss Project building -- in spite of the space heaters, I was shivering so much, I couldn't write legibly. We are SO looking forward to having a heated room, hopefully by the end of this year! In the meantime, we've continued to take...
In the mid-morning light on July 20, as the tents were rising from the ground for Huss Future Fest 2013, friends and neighbors gathered to witness the dedication of a new garden bench for the Huss Project. The bench, donated by Peggy Deames from Love Your Mother, is made of recycled milk jugs and, as...
