A *culture is not optional project
Friends, we are on the brink of our Giant Step campaign and we have some news that we’re SO EXCITED to share … but we can’t tell you yet! Watch for the big press release on our kick-off day, November 1. That’s this Thursday! And just a reminder if you’re nearby: our kick-off event is…
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!
If you’ve attended Future Fest, you probably have a sense of the hours and hours of work that go into preparing the space, planning activities, coordinating details (and backup details), and recruiting volunteers, bakers, partner organizations, artists, food vendors, and so much more. And then, come 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, it’s all over. Visitors head…
No one was sure what to expect from Huss Future Fest 2018 in the week leading up to the event. A couple of our favorite partners had to cancel and the chance of rain was up to 100%. As we scrambled to implement a rain backup plan, we wondered: will anyone show up? And wow,…
We are so fortunate to have our very own resident poet as part of the *cino community! For several years running, Elisabeth Wenger has been writing a poem especially for our annual Huss Future Festival. This year, the Quiet Park dedication provided the perfect occasion for her beautiful word-smithing: As a bee going into a…
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…
We love seeing our community come together at Huss Future Fest, but we know not everyone can be there in person. If you’d like to participate from afar, here’s your chance! Any donations made through the Huss Project web site today will count toward our fundraising total for the day! Please donate today—any amount helps!…
Ripe tomatoes, soft to the touch, in all colors of the rainbow… Dark, waxy leaves of kale and collards… Potatoes still redolent of their underground palaces, the damp earth we dug them out of dried now to fine dust… Sweet, snappy carrots and darkly shining eggplant… Piles and piles and piles of green beans and…
