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This week at Byrd House Market!
New Vendors!
Ted & Kirsten’s Excellent Adventure – bagels served with fresh ingredients expands our prepared food offerings.
Margy’s Comforts Home Bakery brings breads, rolls, and other savories to your table along with Pleased to Be Crafting crocheted hats, bags, and accessories.
And don’t forget the noodles, spring rolls, sweet potato rolls, butter, honey, berries, peaches, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, chanterelles, shiitakes, portobellos and crimini, the cool cucumbers, riron-rich beets and melons and okra, green beans, leeks, creamy yogurt, cold milk and refreshing kefir, sausages, roasts, fryers, bacon, chops, tenerloins and soup bones…
Pets and Peeps Day
http://dogtownlounge.blogspot.com/
Mugsy
“Returning Raw Foods to Pets” by Mugsy’s Dogtown Lounge
At 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30, Mugsy will show and tell why raw foods are important (and natural) to your dog’s and cat’s health and well being.
Visiting Nonprofit:
Artmaking with Virginia Center for Latin American Art includes an exhibit on the Bus: Helen Ruiz paintings, 3:30 – 5 pm
The Peeps: HandOn Teen Impact Farm to Plate Day Camp – 10 teens on hand to help set up the market, tour the farmlet, do a scavenger hunt and shop the market!
Live Music courtesy of the Blue Lotus Collective
and much more at byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com
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Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306
Holmberg On The Rope Swing
WTVR reporter Mark Holmberg did a nice little piece on the Tredegar Street rope swing. Here’s how it begins:
It’s just a missing rope swing. One that goes missing from time to time.
And yet, it’s an identifiable part of the cityscape, a Richmond tradition, if you will, every bit as evocative as the smell of Shockoe Bottom or the vista atop Sunset Hill where Grace Street surrenders for a clifflike block.
At least two generations and mayhaps more have loved this rope swing hanging high from the railroad trestle between Brown and Belle islands on historic Tredegar Street. It’s about 40 feet above the mighty James River, which offers a mostly friendly little eddy – with a deluxe sandy bottom – to embrace the tens of thousands of laughing, splashing swingers.
He goes on to say that although no one admits to cutting down the swing, it does happen from time to time and then returns.
Main Street Library Street Party On Saturday
JRA Volunteer Opportunities
From email:
There are several volunteer opportunities across the watershed to come out and help the James River. If you are interested in any of the events below, just let me know.
August 17: The Tire-Less James
Volunteers are needed to remove tires — and only tires — from the James River between Lynchburg and Richmond during the first Tire-less James Event. We recommend that you wear work gloves and closed toe shoes. Canoe or john boats are best. We are encouraging as many groups as possible to choose James River State Park (Dixon Landing) to Wingina (5.5 miles), there will be multiple historic James River batteaux on site to help carry out tires from this section. Groups can look at available sections and register online. http://www.jrava.org/get-involved/volunteer/tire-less-jamesSeptember 14, 9am-1pm: JRAC Cleanup
Join hundreds of volunteers across the James River watershed to clean up trash. Select from 15 different sites from Lynchburg to Newport News. Look at available sites and register online. Help with recycling is needed at the Reedy Creek site that JRA sponsors. http://www.jrac-va.org/events/cleanup/September 21, 9:30 am – Noon: Rain Garden Maintenance and Cleanup
Help with weeding, planting, and mulching of several rain gardens. All tools will be provided. Please wear sturdy shoes and clothes that can get dirty. Meet in the parking lot behind Advance Auto, 6300 W Broad Street, Richmond. Pre-registration is required. To register, please contact Amber Ellis at 804-788-8811 ext 205 or volunteer(at)jrava.org.September 22, Richmond Splash & Dash
The James River Splash & Dash is a competitive tube race which takes place near Richmond’s Belle Isle. After the race, JRA hosts an after party that includes a live music and food. Volunteers are needed for various tasks that day including registration, race marshals, and set up. http://www.jrava.org/splash-and-dash/richmond/indexAmber Ellis
Watershed Restoration Associate
James River Association
9 South 12th Street, 4th Floor
Richmond, VA 23219
Tel: (804) 788.8811 ext.205
Email: aellis(at)jrava.org
www.jrava.org
First Tuesday at Byrd House Market!
From email announcement:
It’s National Farmers Market Week!
August 4 – 10, 2013
Visit one! Visit Ours! Did you know that Virginia is in the top ten states for number of farmers markets? We are tied with Missouri with 246 markets listed in the USDA Farmers Market Database for 2013. Click here to read the USDA press release. Byrd House Market and all the other wonderful markets in the Richmond area only work because you shop them! Thank all the farmers, gardeners, growers, food makers and their families for bringing you such amazing things! Tell them what you love about what they do for you and Your Neighborhood Farmers Market!
Demo: “What’s In a Ham?” by Salt Pork
“the OTHER white meat” ” Find out what makes ham taste so good, especially when in the hands of someone who knows. How do you eat yours? Bill will share the wheres and whyfores of delicious ham making and eating. At the Salt Pork tent at 4pm and 5pm.
Live Music courtesy of the Blue Lotus Collective
Artmaking with VACLAA, 3:30 – 5 pm (See their current exhibit by artist Helene Ruiz)
Storytelling by Caroline, 4:00 – 5 pm
Facepainting by Madeline, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Bike Rack located by the Square Byrd House Market Sign all market day!
Water for Pets available too!
Chair Massage
William Byrd community House is enrolling 4-year-olds for the fall Head Start and Early Childhood Education programs. Must be potty trained! Call 804-643-2717 for details.
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Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306
Lanie Kruszewski Memorial Ride Set For Sunday
From WRIC:
RICHMOND, VA—A group bicycle ride in memory of Lanie Kruszewski is set for this Sunday.
Monday marks the one year anniversary of the night the 24-year-old was struck and killed while riding her bicycle along River Road.
Elias Webb, the Richmond man convicted of felony hit-and-run in connection with the July 29th wreck, was sentenced in July to three years behind bars. In February, it took a jury of four men and 10 women just less than three hours to reach the verdict.
A group bike ride to remember Kruszewski is set for the evening of Sunday, August 4.
The 14-mile ride will go to the corner of River Road and Bridgeway Road, where a memorial for Kruszweski has been set up.
Riders are asked to meet Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Oregon Hill Outlook where Laurel Street meets the river.
Jack Berry Presentation to OHNA
Last Tuesday, Jack Berry of Venture Richmond made the following presentation to the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) (Thanks to neighbor Silver Persinger for filming!):
2013 July 23 - Jack Berry Presentation to Oregon Hill on Venture Richmond's Riverfront Amphitheater - Richmond, VA from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.
Also, last Friday, WRIR’s RVA Open Source show featured an interviews with Councilperson Parker Agelasto and Venture Richmond’s Jack Berry (This follows the previous show’s interviews with Charles Pool and your truly). Follow the links there to listen.
Richmond’s Kanawha Canal was conceived by George Washington and bulldozed by … who? Venture Richmond? Newmarket Corp? A free-spirited construction contractor following his bliss? We may never know.
This Tuesday At Byrd House Market
From email announcement:
Welcome new vendors!
Decadence Gourmet Cheesecakes joins us this week with locally made savory cheesecakes in amazing flavor combos in JARS. Jim Mead, Mount Airy Studio, is a Richmond area painter bringing limited edition prints from a new inspirational series, It’s All About Love – great gifts. Thinking of You Creations returns with YumTarts, Cookies and Granola!See our complete vendor list for July 30 by clicking here.
Herb Tea Making & Herb Drying Demo
At 4 pm and 6 pm Learn how to make tasty herbals tisanes (teas) from from fresh herbs from the garden and learn about the healing properties of several common garden herbs. Learn also how to effectively dry and store herbs for future use. Taught by Gananathamritananda Swami from Shakambhari Devi Herbs. Manager’s Note: Gananatha regularly offers samples of his tisanes.Teens Learn at the Byrd House
WBCH is really pleased to partner once again with HandsOn Greater Richmond to provide one of the 5 days of site-specific activities for their TeenImpact summer program. 10 kids will spend Tuesday morning in our Library with Stacy Luks of SloFood RVA and then help set up the market, visit with vendors, tour the farmlet with Matthew and learn about WBCH Food Pantry and Farmlet processes. Later they’ll do a scavenger hunt and shop the market!
Featured Vendor: Heath Farm
Bill and Joyce Heath have provided a wide variety of sustainably-, locally-, and family-grown vegetables and plants since Byrd House Market began in 2007. I must be in pepper mode because following the Padron Pepper sear of the week before this last week I took the bag of green, yellow and orange bell peppers and decided that every meal would incorporate one or more of the colors and sweet, crunchy goodness from these peppers. So far
– a salad of greens, sweet orange peppers with shaved sharp cheddar cheese and a simple olive oil, squeeze of fresh lime, salt & pepper dressing, and
– a saute of green peppers, crimini mushrooms, onions, garlic laid over fried eggs and garnished with cherry tomatoes!Acoustic Music by Blue Lotus Collective Face Painting by Madeline Making it Bilingual with VACLAA will bring art activities to make and use bright, colorful signage for the garden, farmlet and market in English and Spanish. Art, Literacy and Food! For all you kids!
Stuff the Bus!
at The Diamond this Sunday, August 4 at 2pm. Learn more at WBCH.org!_____________________
Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306
Tire-less James River Volunteer Opportunity
Volunteers are needed to remove tires from the James River between Lynchburg and Richmond during the first Tire-less James Event. Sign up today at http://www.jamesriverassociation.org/get-involved/volunteer/tire-less-james
JRA is partnering with Virginia Canals & Navigations Society and the Heart of Virginia Council, Boy Scouts of America in The Tire-less James project on August 17.