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Outpost News Archive 2008 October 16, 2008 October 16, 2008 The weather is perfect for farming.
Sunday we will start out farming at Live Oak around 930am and then move over to Emile around 2pm. From 3pm till 5pm we will have a farm market where you can pick your greens. We have several types of lettuce, mustard, sorrell and much more. Voluteers are paid in greens. Dia de las vidas -------- Bioneers Conference is Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Don't forget the Big Pick every Friday night at 6:00, where we pick for the Saturday markets. Greens! Greens! Greens! We are having at Emile on Sunday from 2 to 5. Come out and get your greens. We have mustard, collards, kale, arugula, mizuna,bok choy and several varies of lettuce. On the weekend we are working at both the Emile Street and Live Oak Gardens. We received two truck loads of mushroom compost last week and are in the process of getting ready for all of our cool weather crops. Don't forget to come out and see our new gate! We have dirt, we have seed, and we encourage your participation in the big effort that makes this all work. I can be reached at joenelsonicet@yahoo.com or 713-261-5903 if you don't find me at the garden. Joe Nelson Icet
September 4, 2008 Please help us out by voting for the Emile Community Farm in the "Best of Houston" awards.
August 10, 2008 Every Friday night starting at 6:30pm we have the Big Pick at the Emile Community Farm located at 711 Emile in the 5th ward. We will be picking for the Co-op and the farmers markets. Saturday morning at 9am we are working with a youth group preparing beds, weeding and other farm chores. Sunday evening starting at 4:30pm H.C. and myself are working on low volume water system for the Emile Farm. Sunday at 6:30pm at Emile is the Bee Serious bee keeping workshop and meeting. Also Sunday evening at 6:30 we are having a pot luck. Terrell and the good help have been bringing the Live Oak garden/farm back into shape. Contact Terrell if you would like to help. Terrell cell is 281 995 3475. Bela is the contact for the Bee Serious bee keeping group. Bela's cell is 832 428 6596. Marci has put together a membership card for the Outpost. The monthly dues of $10.00 help to sustain needed supplies to the keep the inner city farm projects up and running. Membership drive is every Sunday evening at the Emile Community Farm. Contact Marci for more information about membership. Marci e-mail is marcimurff@sbcglobal.net. Synthia has posted a newsletter on My Space under the Live Oak Outpost. Synthia is a long time resident of the 5th ward. Synthia's contact information is 713 222 0998. My contact information is 713 261 5903. The mailing address for the Outpost is 1719 Live Oak Unit C, Houston Tx, 77003. As of date we have a community center and garden/farm at Live Oak and a Community Farm at Emile. Thanks for supporting the huge effort in providing local food security in the inner city of Houston and please tell a friend. This week we began ordering greens for the cool weather season. Our hope is to build a extensive seed library at the Live Oak location. We also ordered a large variety of garlic. The next several months with all the good help we hope to have one of the most productive and diverse farming projects in Houston's inner city.
August 1, 2008 Tonight Fox TV will be out filming the big effort we are creating through urban farming. Fox is putting together a feature story on the Emile Community Farm in the 5th ward. The Big Pick begins at 6:30pm. The Emile Community Farm is located at 711 Emile@Gunter Street. Come out and support Urban Farming in the inner city and please tell a friend. For more information in helping with the Urban Farm Project, contact Joe Nelson Icet at 713-261-5903 or Terrell at 281-995-3475. For Information about the beekeeping contact Waqar at 832-414-8499.
July 23, 2008 Hello Outpost Community, Thank You for Supporting Urban Agriculture in the Inner City of Houston. This a great effort to provide a local food economy in Houston's Inner City. Get the word out, please tell a friend. Wednesday and Thursday we will be working at the Live Oak Outpost at 1719 Live Oak. This Saturday Night at 7pm at the Live Oak Outpost, at 1719 Live Oak #C, we're having a vegan dinner prepared by Jose and calling it Jose's Last Supper. We'll be featuring vegetables from both Emile and Live Oak Garden Farms. This is a fundraiser for Jose, as he begins his journey to Mexico. We're asking for Donations for the dinner of at least $15-?. Friday, we'll be working at the Emile Community Farm, with a church group coming out at 8am. We/re going to be planting, working on our water system, and picking for food pantries. Every Friday Night, starting at 6:30pm, we're having the Big Pick at the Emile Community Farm. We'll be picking for the Coops and Farmer's Markets. Saturday morning at 9am, we'll be out at the Emile Community Farm planting tropical squashes, preparing new beds, and working on a bee keeping project with Bela and Waqar. Bela has already bought alot of the equipment for the beekeeping and more information will be coming as the project comes along. Kate and Taft have started cultivating shiitake mushrooms at the Emile Community Farm. We're looking for fairly new Oak wood, that will be used to grow the mushrooms, in order to expand the growing project. We're looking to expand to several varieties of mushrooms in the near future. This Sunday Afternoon at 4:30pm, H.C. and Myself are going to be putting on a low volume watering system workshop at Emile. We're experimenting with several different methods of watering and learning as we're doing it. We just had to pay several thousand dollars in licensing the truck and trailer, and getting several loads of mushroom compost, so we're in bad need for donations. We're asking that folks pitch in $10 a month to help in the effort to grow this farming community. Contact me for more information. This Saturday the 26th, Synthia Hall has put together a voter registration drive at the Emile Community Farm from 1-4pm. Please come by and show support. For more information contact Synthia at 713-222-0998. For more information in helping with the Urban Farm Project, contact Joe Nelson Icet at 713-261-5903 or Terrell at 281-995-3475. For Information about the beekeeping contact Waqar at 832-414-8499. Joe Nelson Icet
June8 , 2008 Thanks for supporting a local food economy. I am going out of town for the rest of the week for a job assignment. The hot weather is requiring lots of watering, please help us out. Bela will be working the farm Sunday, Monday and Tuesday getting ready for the event. He could use your help. His contact info is 832 428 6596. We have lots to do to get ready. Ken will be posting a newsletter with information on the event. Thanks for all the good help this weekend raising a farm in the inner city. The entrance to the farm is wonderful. Fran and Becky built an info center and Danny, John, Lisa and others helped us build a a bunch of beds. Alvaro is planning on planting corn and squash Sunday. We have lots to do to get ready for the event. Willie is building a front entrance gate to the farm. He needs three holes dug to set the gate. His contact information is 713 254 7828. If you want to help out with watering or planting contact Kelvin at 713 320 9556. We would like to set out lots of flyers for the event, please contact Ken at 832 423 1005 for flyers. We will be preparing food from the farm on event day. We have talked to several of the locals and plan on cooking up everything we have growing in the farm and more. If you have any food ideas, come on. We have lots of room. Please get the word out that Alafia will be leading up the drumming at dusk. Everyone is welcome to set up and give out information, sell goods and what ever they would like to do. Thanks for all the support, look forward to meeting you at the June 14th event. More contact info, Joseph 281 381 7018, John 713 291 7920, Dawn 832 452 5873. Picking for the Coops and farmers markets every Friday night starting around 6:30pm. Thanks to Joseph and Stacy for doing the farmers market Saturday. Get in touch with dinner as a seed.
May 28 , 2008 Thanks for supporting a local food economy. Last Tuesday Deborah Wrigley came out to the Emile Community Farm and interview several of us about the high cost of food and what we as a community are doing about it. I just got a e-mail from Deborah saying that the report will be on the Channel 13 news at 5pm Tuesday May 27th. Several local residents from the 5th ward were interviewed. We are all looking forward to the report. [the video is here] With Ken's good help we hope to continue clearing and cleaning the Emile Farm for the June 14th event. We will be at the farm in the late afternoon and special arrangements can be made to open the gate for those that are free during the day. We have lots of transplants and I just ordered over 25 different types of summer squashes, 18 types of melons and 6 types of pumpkins. I hope to make a sea water run soon so we can re-mineralizing the soil with all 92 trace elements. I encourage others to do the research and locate tropical sources of food to build out a intensive agriculture in the inner city during the hot weather. Let's build out a great dinner. I hope to have more info about the June 14th event soon. So far Dan Phillips, Dr. Atkins are our guest speakers. With all the good help we have built a stage in the garden for the event and it is way cool. Perri has been doing a wonderful job bringing the web site up to speed with recents pictures and information. Check out the new lastorganicoutpost.com. The Rice students finished the documentary and it is on You Tube under the last organic outpost. Thanks to all the wonderful people that have been coming out and helping us build the farm. Get in touch with dinner and tell a friend!!! Joe Nelson Icet
April 27, 2008 Thanks for supporting a local food economy. We are having a blast at the Emile Community Farm, located at 700 Emile and Gunter street in the 5th ward. We had nearly 70 people out yesterday for the Shell S.E.E.D earthday event and work event. Today Sunday from 11am till dark we will continue with our effort to raise a farm in the inner city, planting melons, building new beds, planting seeds in trays. We have nearly ten types of melons we are working to get in the ground in the next week. The Gunter's family provided us with more peppers, eggplant, okra and more. There good work has helped pull the farm into shape with food from all over the world. We made a soil delivery to Wabash, composted rice hulls and mushroom compost and traded for soil amendments that we have been using as a potting mix. Every thing looks great, the community of urban farmers is growing. Today friends from the east coast who are staying at the Emile Community Farm are starting a mural on the warehouse. All of us are covered up with great and wonderful projects and if you don't hear from us it is only because we are at the farm doing the good work. This is a huge effort to bring a local food system to the inner city. Next weekend May 3rd, Saturday from 1 till 5pm we are having a barter farm and work event at the Emile Farm. We are building out a event June 14th, Urban Farm Day, we have nearly 8 weeks to put this event together and are interested in ideas to bring community together supporting a local food economy. The Emile Farm will be loaded with food due to all the good work we are doing today to bring the farm up. Look around at the raising cost of fuel, food, it makes good sense to get involved and make food happen. Let's build a farm, create community and everyone is invited to build a inner city farm. Joe Nelson Icet
April 15,2008 Thanks for supporting a local food economy. Today Kevin received a 77 yard load of composted rice hulls at the Emile Community Farm. The rice hulls were composted for nearly 8 years. We will begin mixing the screen sand from Cowboy trucking and mushroom compost to make our spring and summer soil mix. We are also using earth worm casting, kelp meal, and other amendments in making a potting soil for planting our transplants. This weekend we are getting a large number of plants from the Gunter's to load the Emile Community Farm. We have a lot work on the Music garden to bring it up to speed for the June 14th Urban Farm Day Event. We will be clearing out the space to begin a new garden in the space. We have been talking to Tami from The Shell Corp about lining us up with a number of picnic tables for the Music Garden. This week Perri brought the Web Site up to date. I appreciate her hard work. Check it out.. We had a large number of people come out this past weekend to see the Emile Community Farm and Music Garden. Please tell a friend and come out and see the big effort we are making to bring a local agriculture to the inner city. We are continuing the Work Events every weekend, both Saturday and Sunday from 1 pm till after 5pm. I have been out every evening during the week after 6:30pm to water the Emile Community Farm. Come by for a visit soon. April 26th, is earthday with S.E.E.D. of The
Shell Corp., May 3rd, Please make a donation, we could use garden tools, outdoor chairs, tables, leaves, composting material, weedeater, water hoses and more. Donations are also helpful in purchasing seed, plants, fruit trees, mushroom compost, screen sand, rice hulls and soil amendments. With the soaring price of fuel, food and energy, a local inner city agriculture is a working solution. On Sunday afternoon we may have a raw food presentation with Kevin and Nancy. Call Kevin William at 713 320 9556 for further information. Joe Nelson Icet
1/21/2008 ... if I
wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study
and help it NEWS FROM JOE!!! Hello Outpost Community, it has been June since our last newsletter and we have a lot to tell you. We have three gardens now in the inner city. The Live Oak garden in the 3rd ward is our oldest garden where we have the most produce growing. We have 2 others gardens in the 5th ward at the old comet rice mill. The 2nd garden is at the rice silo, Kenny's music garden. We haven't nailed down a name for the garden yet. We have over 30 beds already planted. The 3rd garden is the Emile garden located at 700 Emile at Gunter street. So far we have 38 beds and intend on having at least 100 beds in the next few weeks. We are acquiring the compost material to build out the garden in the next week. The Emile garden will be at least 2 acres inner city farm. The Live Oak Garden is open on Sundays from 10:30 to dark for pick and barter. Also, we are offering opportunities for students and people to come out and learn at the garden. We will design courses around people's gardening interests. We teach respect for the land and for the stewards who take care of it. Your contributions are appreciated and go a long way in supporting local agroecology. The Last Organic Outpost is building a future for the well being of all. Another world is possible. Si se puede. Yes we can. Next Sunday, January 27, we are going to have a dinner at 5. A tour of all the gardens will start at 4pm. The contact person for the Live Oak garden is Guilherme
Goncalves. 718-350-4190 guigatuica@gmail.com At this time we have:
VIVA LA TIERRA!
1/30/2008 We will be having a potatoes planting workshop with Vince on Saturday Feb. 2nd from 2 to 4pm. We will be planting in raised beds and car tires. Vince has had years of gardening experience and has suggested a couple years back of doing a workshop so here it is. On Saturday Feb. 9th from 2 to 4 Sassan will be conducting a fruit tree planting workshop to establish a fruit tree orchard at The Emile community farm located at 700 emile, Houston Tx. 77020 in the 5th ward. Sassan has donated the 18 fruit trees in the orchard at the Live Oak garden in the 3rd ward. I appreciate his great effort. All workshops are weather permitting. This week Guilherme and Derrick made it to the Wednesday taft street coop and to the bayou city farmers' market on Saturday. I dropped off some greens to Mike and Ruthey at the California coop on Saturday morning. The hours are from 9 am to 2pm. Sunday the pay and barter was the biggest turn out in months. We had a tour of the 3 gardens and a pot luck dinner featuring our local grown greens. Help us build an inner city urban agriculture, donate, tell a friend, come see the gardens, support local farmers, eat local, create autonomy. Joe Nelson Icet
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The Big Pick is every Friday nite at the Emile Community Farm. The pick starts around 530pm. Saturday is a work day and a neighborhood pot luck. We will begin working at the Emile Farm round 930am. The pot luck will starts around 3pm and will go until dark. Several residents will be making food and we intend on cooking lots of greens from the farm. 
