Well year two of #ProjectMartian has been a learning experience to be sure! My original idea was to test if we could send greens and browns to Mars to recreate compost and soil on Mars (we can). But I neglected one key plot point; Life will stow away. To cut corners this busy year I …
Well it’s nearly Easter in this year after COVID19. My enclosed sustainable ecosystem is readying itself to come back to life. I decided this cold sunny day was the perfect day to record Mezzacello as it is right before it goes through it’s next big expansion. So here is a little slideshow from April 1, …
Mezzacello is first and foremost a private residence and it is a yard. But it is also an urban garden and an urban farm. There will be supplies that must be brought in and products that will travel from one ecosystem to another. That leaves a path. It was interesting to see that path so …
Four years ago we decided we were to dedicate our efforts across all domains to sustainability. We refer to it as an enclosed Sustainable ecosystem network. There are many pathways that enable and insure those networks remain viable and renewable. This requires that we reframe waste. Not as an inconvenience or troubling afterthought; but as …
With the success of Project Martian last summer, I am making plans to extend my research. Last summer was about optimizing yield and harvest ability of the selected crops. I am still doing well in my winter larder! This spring and summer will be about implementing technology and automation to extend my mission into other …
It is January 21st, 2021. I am grateful, not because of yesterdays events, but because of the reaction from all of my friends, family, interns, mentees and that 22 year old poet, Amanda Gordon. I think this embodies best what I am feeling. At first you might mock this image or think, “get rid of …
I have declared 2020 the year of #ProjectMartian at Mezzacello. I took part in a grant with great big aspirations and some very cool science. It was a partnership grant with PAST Foundation, The Columbus Foundation, and Scotts Miracle Gro. The point of the grant was to explore creating beds on another planet with easily …
We purchased the property that would become Mezzacello in late October 2013. We had a strategy in place that we thought was genius at the time. We would continue to rent our apartment three blocks away for two more months while we “fixed up” the 160+ year old house. That is the ESSENCE of naivety. …
