Musssels in their Winter Spot. Sculpture update
The sign says,
“Don’t Touch, fragile below.
Mussels wintering below the freeze line.
To be removed in Spring 2025
Estuary Educational Project
The MoS Collective participants are occasionally joining me in a controlled stumbling forward, I’m following through with all the unexpected cascades from an idea that created serendipitous cascades. in an effort to catch up to the unraveling we set in motion to allow nature to continue. There are no guidebooks . It’s an exponential snowballing as we chronicle the unfolding that we are entangled in —- the Esopus estuary.
Dredging the Esopus creek for the boats. Also muddies the water which mussels don’t like. Hope they can bare it.
Where the Esopus meets the Hudson.
Blue Oyster Fungi blocks are thriving! Flooded floating twice in 24 hours with the tide seems to be the a workable amount of water.
before:
Now:
The Lamb’s Ear and Lemon Balm seem to thrive on the raft. They must be rain garden tolerant.
Biochar eyes (biochar curtesy of White Feather Farm) , nose, claws, falling into water pulling toxins.
The phragmities raft is also woven with angora fleece from Kathy Puffer’s goats annd the Ashokan Center goats. It was colored by MJ Smythe and woven into the phrag. It absorbs the surface oil & binding heavy metals.
Mycelium fruiting, myco blocks from Anne & Tess Apparu-Hall’s mushroom market business. They are hopefully spreading … breaking down petroleum, hydrocarbons adding nutrients,
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