Hanson has been interested in the edible landscape ever since her mother took her with her great aunts to their secret wild blueberry patches, where they filled gallon ice cream buckets to the brim and her father introduced her to the refreshing taste of wintergreen leaves on hikes in the northern Minnesota woods. She has discovered that such simple pleasures can also be found in the edible urban landscape right outside her door in Baltimore city. Although she has foraged the city's green spaces, creek paths, and medians for a wide range of produce, this is her first foray into web publishing. There is always more to explore in Baltimore!
February 6, 2012
Mount Royal bike lane statements
People involved in the Mount Royal Avenue bike lane issue have asked for the full text of the statements issued by Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Department of Transportation so here’s a link to a page where we’ve pasted up both. In addition, MICA has put Lazarus’ statement up on its website [...]
February 3, 2012
February 1, 2012
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Baltimore’s guerrilla crosswalk artists
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
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January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012
Dumping of hot metal caused Sparrows Point fire, state told
RG Steel told Maryland environmental officials today that the weekend fire that lit up the skies around Sparrows Point was caused by the disposal of hot metal from the mill’s blast furnace. “We were told that conditions relating to the idling and subsequent restart of the blast furnace led to the need to dispose of [...]
