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Party Sunday @ Barnsdall -- Wine+Food+Art+Music
Official Silver Lake Art Crawl Party at Barnsdall Art Park From 1pm-4pm, the Silver Lake Art Crawl will be celebrating our collective neighborhoods and the creativity of our community with a picnic on the Hollyhock House Lawn sponsored by the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and Dos Equis. Featuring art, music, dancing and drinks provided by City Sip & Dos Equis, and food from Let’s Be Frank, Dosa Truck, Del Lemonade, Tiago Coffee, and Coolhaus Ice Cream! Tunes provided by KCRW’s Mario CottoRSVP to purchase a Wine Tasting with City Sip LA*Free Parking at Kaiser Permanente* Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park - 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
This Weekend: Silver Lake Art Crawl 2009!
Join us for the Silver Lake Art Crawl 2008 This Weekend
Amazing Progress
Hopshare attended Sunday’s FLAG Meeting at Farmlab, and noted the extraordinary growth of the surviving hops. We have three remaining Horizon hops that are flourishing, and the Nugget looks healthy but has not passed half a foot of growth. But the Williamette and Mt. Hood hops have exploded in growth, and the vines have extended past three feet, growing over the walls of the agbins. We will be training them up the tower this week.
Survivors: Horizon-3, Goldings-0, Mt. Hood-2, Williamete-2, Cascade-0, Nugget-1
Visit to the Culver City Homebrewing Supply Co. hops. The hops have grown to the top of the building, and are beginning to flower. I got some thick twine to begin training the Farmlab hops.
Horizon: 3 Goldings: 0 Mt. Hood: 2 Williamete: 3 Cascade: 0 Nugget: 1
Rescue mission: hops. Several of the hops have died or haven’t broken soil, but Brady and I did a little digging and found healthy shoots just under the surface. Hopefully these hops will show themselves soon.
The Horizon hops are doing quite well. We will need to begin training them up to the water tower.
We have had a couple of casualties at the HopShare Farmlab Agbins. Some of the hops have overheated and died. We are looking into ways to create growth shade using other non-competitive species in the sames bins. We planted a large squash plant in one of the bins today.
