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Hi all!

It's been about a year since you all so generously backed the Seeding the City project. Thanks to support from the New Museum I was able to get the project out to about 50 more rooftops around NYC (my goal early in the year is to update the website map with those sites), then I put the project to rest. It was also featured in a beautiful book, "Greening My City" so I am really happy with all that the project was able to do.

I wanted to reach out to all of you to let you know that I am working on a new fundraiser, I am working with Patricia Watts, founder of EcoArtSpace to develop curriculum around the HighWaterLine project (http://www.highwaterline.com) and after that, hope to develop curriculum for other projects, including Seeding the City and Insert ____ Here (http://www.insert-here.org). I would love for you guys to help fund the curriculum also. Here's how you can help:

• Donate to the HighWaterLine Learning Guide: http://www.indiegogo.com/HighWaterLine
• Share the project with your social networks: http://www.indiegogo.com/HighWaterLine
• Sign up for my email list so we can stay in touch, http://www.evemosher.com/contact, or
• Join my FaceBook Fan page so you can keep updated, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eve-Mosher/30113166330

Thank you all again for your generosity and support, I look forward to being in touch more!

Best,

eve

So there are only 13 days left and a long way to go - perhaps I set my sights a bit high? I had come up with the goal $7500 based more on my needs (desires) to get funding to subsidize about ten sites (10 workshops) - as opposed to thinking realistically about the money I might be able to raise. (which would be closer to maybe $2500).

So... we can do a big push here at the end to see if we can get the money going - Thank you thank you to all who have pledge AND to those who have promoted - or I can try to do it again with a lower bar...

Hmmmm...

I will keep promoting it to see what I can do!! Hoping to get some press on the project soon!

Best,

eve

So how did I go from small module installations to thinking that I could do large installations? A little hubris?

Actually it wasn't entirely my idea. We did a couple of institutional site installations early on in the project - one a home for disabled formerly homeless adults, and one for a co-operative preschool. When we showed up with the little modules and flags and carried them up the stairs or elevator to place them on the roof, the hosts were surprised to see how small and lightweight the modules were. And how modular! They both said "that's it?" - yup, that's it. Each module is less than one foot by two feet and weighs in under 10 pounds when dry (about 12-15 when saturated).

That got me thinking, yeh, its so easy you could do it! So we suggested that we maybe come back in the spring and do a workshop with the clients (the residents at one and the preschoolers at the other) and help them build their own green roof.

So thats how it started, and now we want to do workshops with schools and organizations all over the city. We can offer the workshops for really cheap already, but with your help, we can offer them for super cheap to even more organizations!

Let's get greening!!

I thought I would write an update that gives a little background information on the project. Seeding the City was originally conceived in 2007. I spent the next year working on funding, research and building partnerships. In the summer of 2009 I partnered with Covenant House in midtown NYC to plant 100 of the green modules. Covenant House is a shelter for homeless teens. The kids there were amazing! About 20 showed up to help plant the modules and then a handful signed up to water the plants over the three months that they were there. Some of the kids really loved the experience and being responsible for the plants.
The plants spent a few months on the roof of the building in midtown - they were about 20 stories up - getting established. Then it was time for the launch! The plants were welcomed to their new homes around NYC - a lot in Brooklyn, a couple in Manhattan. And the project was off and running.
Then winter set in and the plants and the project went into hibernation. When spring came around, we were ready to get going again - we had a waiting list of people wanting the modules. That's when we hit a little roadbump. Our modules that had wintered at Covenant House were accidentally re-purposed. There was a miscommunication that landed them in planters around the yards of the building.
The plan was to get planting again right away, but finding a roof to plant all the modules has been difficult.

In the next update... how we got to where we are now!