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Bucket Brigade was a huge hit!
We still have some buckets of salad greens, so swing by this weekend to get one before they’re gone!
$5 each and no limit.
3726 SW Austin St.
After this weekend call or email us to see if we still have some. 206.932.5880 or hq@urbanlandarmy.com
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Bucket Brigade. Tomorrow. Saturday Sept. 20. 9 AM - Noon.
Urban Land Army Headquarters.
Be there or be square.
We’ll be selling winter vegetable buckets for just $5!
There is a Cooking Bucket with swiss chard, kale, Chinese cabbage, Pac Choi, beet greens, and mustards, and a Fresh Eats bucket with 3 kinds of lettuce and spinach. Come early to grab yours!
The much-anticipated Urban Land Army t-shirts will also be there! $15 for Army Green or Charcoal.
Where?
3726 SW Austin St. (West Seattle) - between SW Webster St. and SW Ida St.
Landmark for the turnoff:
Members of Urban Land Army West Seattle and ULA Olympia gathered this sunny weekend to sticker, fill, and plant buckets for the upcoming Bucket Brigade!
Have a look to see how we did it and then stay tuned for the Bucket Brigade Field Kit, a handy little guide that will lay out how you and your Urban Land Army can hold a Bucket Brigade of your own.
And note the Urban Land Army t-shirts in action, now available for $18 in Army Green, Charcoal, and National Fitness Test Grey. Check out the close-ups here and in the Supply Shop.
Greetings to everyone we met at the Seattle Tilth Harvest Fair! Thanks a lot for stopping by.
If you are wondering, “Now what was that Urban Land Army again?”, you are in the right place. For a recap, check out About ULA, then have a look around. Scroll through the blog posts for information on how to convert your lawn into a vegetable garden, test your soil, and the benefits of pocket vise-grips.
If you signed up to join Urban Land Army, we will be sending you an informative and to-the-point message very soon. But if you want to leap into action today, head over to the Urban Land Army Action Room! Commonly known as a “social networking site”, the Action Room is where you can set up your own Urban Land Army and talk to other Urban Land Army members about gardening, canning, going outlaw, and so on. We’re pretty new, but a mighty force is assembling - there are even people there from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Come on in!
For those of you who were interested in Urban Sharecropping and adding yourself to the Crop Share map (need land? have land?), please note that there has been a name change! Check out the Land Link page for details.
So far, Urban Land Army has been focusing on food and gardening because it’s been summertime and that’s fun. But waste reduction, energy efficiency, and clean transportation are equally important to building healthier cities and self-reliant humans, so we will be launching campaigns, instruction sheets, and field kits that focus on these areas as well.
But don’t wait for us! Start an Urban Land Army of your friends, family, or neighbors and come up with your own campaign - make biodiesel in your garage, set up a community toolshed, build a worm bin…spot a problem and go after it. And then tell the rest of us about it!
Nice to see you.
On September 16, Urban Land Army Headquarters will be launching
Bucket Brigade!
Bucket Brigade is an Urban Land Army campaign that rescues unused buckets, plants them up with veggies, and brings them to the people. Salvage, food, fending for yourself. Ahh, good stuff.
The first Bucket Brigade event will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 11-2, at St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank on 4th Ave. S. in Seattle. Buckets will be sold for $1 - a Buck for a Bucket - and will be available only to those using the food bank that day.
This is what we’re doing:
We have rounded up 100 food-safe buckets from a local bakery and we will be filling them with potting soil, winter veggies, hauling them down to the food bank, and people there will snap them up and take them home. There will be a Cooking Bucket with cooking greens like collards, chard, kale, beet greens, and pac choi, and a Fresh Eats Bucket with hardy lettuce mixes with names like “Arctic Tundra.”
The idea is that long-time and brand new gardeners will be able to fend for themselves a bit food-wise, and keep these buckets planted year round. (Seattle is pretty warm but Bucket Brigades can be held in spring and summer in chillier climates.) We will be distributing seeds as well as planting, watering, and harvest information. To top it all off, these buckets cannot be recycled in Seattle so we are making a small dent in the landfill.
Once we hold this first event and work out the kinks, we will have a Bucket Brigade Field Kit available here to help you (and your personal Urban Land Army) hold a Bucket Brigade in your city. It will include tips on how to round up plants, soil, seeds, and buckets, and information on event logistics. We will have official Bucket Brigade posters and postcards for advertising your event, bucket tags with gardening information, as well as bucket stickers to pretty them up.
For more information on the Seattle event, holding your own, or joining one that is in the works, keep your eye on the Bucket Brigade campaign page. You can also join Urban Land Army and have access to something even better: Brigadiers! Urban Land Army members live in all sorts of places, and will be talking about the ins and outs of Bucket Brigade over at the Urban Land Army Action Room. There may be people there from where you live, and you can get together and get things sorted.
Over and out.
