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Systems & Resources

Priority / Date	System	Description	Resources
	Life Support		Materials	Workers
1 –end of rains	Irrigation	Installation of mainline and auxiliary lines (See site map) to support collections, catchment pond and workspaces.	Needed: 240 linear feet of mainline, pvc or copper. 12-15 valves. *Ask Berkeley Indoor Garden & Plant It Earth.* Pond liner 2x6x8, 10 -15 rocks*, 5 bags of concrete mix. We have 3 pumps.	Line:Multi-level team, 3-5 people. More plumbing experience the better. 8hrs Pond: 3-5 people, carpentry & plumbing. 4 hrs
2	Soil Cycling	Vermiculture(2), compost (2) & mulch(1) beds (See schematics).	Needed: o       1x2x18” pine/redwood slats – 64 o       4x4x12’ redwood posts – 4 o       woodscrews	2 teams, 2 people each, carpentry & strong helper. 6 hrs
1- ASAP	Planters/Containers	Tree planters (10), East wall 100’ (ledge reinforcement), vegetable beds (8) fence planters (vines) (4)	Needed: o       2x10”x12’ redwood planks – 30 o       concrete bolts – 50 o       4x4x12 redwood posts - 16	2 teams: cutters & assemblers 4 each, 8 hours. Mixed carpentry levels, physically strong.
	Collections
3	Greenhouse	Shelves Drainage Door	Needed: o       2x4x8 pine – 8 o       1.5”x 12” x 12’ pine shelving -  10 o       4-6 bags of gravel o       curtain rod (over door) o       heavy pvc sheeting (clear)	1 team 4 people, light carpentry. 4 hours
1	Ornamentals & Trees	Plant trees and shrubs in beds	Mulch, as much as we can get 160 feet of rip-wrap, topsoil- sandy loam, 2 pickup truck fulls	Tree team: 4 people, 4-6 hrs. Beds
2	Biome Exploration Wall	Configure Irrigation, organize and plant ornamentals.	Needed: soil, mulch as above.	3 teams, 3 each, mixed strength,
	Culinary Program Planting	Organize and plant seeds, seedlings	Needed: Seeds, sets, soil, mulch and fertilizer.	2 -4 teams including program participants + horticultural helpers. 4 – 8 hrs
	Human Uses
	Handwashing	Basin on pedestal by greenhouse.	Recycled, install graywater line.	1 plumber, 1 helper. 3 hrs.
	Quiet Spaces	Benches	We have them, Place them as desired.	Teams include youth, senior, activity leaders & participants.
	Outdoor Meeting	Tables	We have them place them as desired.	Teams include youth, senior, activity leaders & participants.
	Mobile Stage	modules	Needed: 6 modules on casters (24) o       2x6x12 pine – 24 o       2x4x12 pine - 18	2 teams: cutters & assemblers 4 people each, 8 hrs.
	Outdoor Program Integration	Sports & other activity	Unidentified, but important needs	Teams include members of all programs.

 

SYLCentral Y Gardens Establishment Plan

Asberry Spring 2010

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Field Notes: Need for case notes form

Thinking about confidentiality and ease of recording.

Assets Manager

This tool works to satisfy the need to keep up with sketches, profiles and other entities as I create them before they are integrated into systems or polished.

Y Gardens: Logistics

This form is for scheduling.

BART Accessibility Maps

Information scientist, Josh Miehle has been leading a collaboration between Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute and Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco to develop feature maps for BART stations and environs. This has tremendous potential to improve autonomy and safety for blind travelers.
 The tactile station maps are designed to be navigable with a Smart Pen, a low-cost ($150) audible, hand-held tool. Mapped features are categorized into three layers (Street, Concourse, Platform) within a highly selective taxonomy.  Map readers would peruse maps during route planning to memorize station layouts in advance rather than consult them in real time during travel. To facilitate communication with sighted or low-vision map readers and those who don't read braille each feature is displayed in high-contrast colors, embossed, braille and with single character acronyms. Because of this 'Rosetta Stone' characteristic of the map elements and the necessity that layouts be committed to memory the taxonomy has been deliberately  restricted to no more than 8 -12 per layer.

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Sample map book, 03-05-11

Tactile cartographer, Greeta Ahart (LFTB), accessibility architect BJ Epstein and project manager Greg Kehnart (LFTB) have been working with Dr. Miehle to produce base maps, design team workflow and organize volunteers to collect feature sets by station. This team has produced tactile map book samples and a first generation tactile map of the Oakland Coliseum BART station. All other BART stations were surveyed on March 5, 2011 by a volunteer team of approximately thirty Occupational & Mobility experts, architects and cartographers.

Tactile maps will be produced from the data sets in the coming weeks. 

Interim results of this mapping project were presented Friday March 11, 2011 at the CTEBVI- California Educators Transcribers for the Blind and Visually Impaired, http://www.ctevh.org/conference.htm. In the conference Dr Miehle spoke about his hope that this effort can provide a useful model for transportation systems around the world.

Y Gardens: Curiosity Club

The youth from de Marillac Middle School at St Boniface Church on Golden Gate Ave come to work in the garden weekly as an elective in their after school program. Each group of 8 - 10 boys and girls signs up for a quarter at a time. They can and often do repeat.
This quarter finished on Tuesday 3/8. We innovated in several ways during this session:

• all gardeners were offered inexpensive journals
• we made maps
• we built a pond
• we considered accessibility
• we planted into sheet mulched berms on the asphalt 

Other activities included propagation from seed and slips, small team and full group projects.
I was surprised by how ardently everyone took to journalling, to map-making; how seriously the challenges of access were considered. Especially unexpected: that when after all the team work this Q during the last session I had organized 1 task per participant -

1. move straw from "Growing Cuisine" to pond entrance in "redwood understory" area
2. assemble a donated hose caddy 
3. transplant container flowers to berms
4. plant out marigolds
5. fill water cans
6. work compost into soil
7. fill planters with fresh soil
8. cultivate fallow planters

- they were eager for the hardest tasks and they chose to team up and to move between teams as they finished. The most complicated assembly project kept them going beyond the class time. Just as they had solved the puzzle it was time to go so they asked to take it with them to finish and bring it back later.
Their enthusiasm is contagious, also working with KinderGardeners in the morning stimulates my  work with the older youth in the afternoon.