On Saturday, June 6,Canoe Trip with Friends of Sugar, in partnership with NICHES Land Trust

On Saturday, June 6, Friends of Sugar Creek, in partnership with NICHES Land Trust, will sponsor a family-friendly float trip from the Jim Davis Bridge to Deer’s Mill.

The two sponsoring organization will rent twenty canoes, allowing the first forty participants to paddle for free. Additional canoes and/or kayaks can be rented at a discounted rate. Those wishing to use their own watercraft will be provided with free shuttle service.

The trip starts at 10 am on Sugar Creek and will last approximately 2-3 hours, depending on water conditions and paddling speed. Bring your own drinking water, snacks or light lunch, and appropriate clothing. Youth participants under age 16 need adult supervision.
Contact Matt Williams to register (deadline is May 29) or ask for more information ( matt@friendsofsugarcreek.org or 765-376-5213). A detailed schedule is posted below.

June 6 Float Trip Schedule

For those using canoes/kayaks from Clements Canoes:
Meet at Deer’s Mill by 9:15. Shuttle service will be provided to our starting point at the Jim Davis Bridge at 9:30.

For those bringing their own watercraft:
If you plan to bring your own boat(s) and would like shuttle service, please drop off your equipment at the Jim Davis Bridge by 9:00 then proceed to Deer’s Mill. This will allow you to leave your car at the take-out and catch the 9:30 shuttle. A Friends of Sugar Creek board member will watch your equipment until you arrive.

A short safety and technique demonstration will be given at 9:50.We hope to be on the water by 10:00.

Directions to Clements Outdoor Center (Deer’s Mill)
From Crawfordsville:

Google Map

• Take Indiana State Road 47 South for 7 miles to Indiana State Road 234 West.
• Turn right and follow 234 West for 8 miles.
• Canoe office is second left after crossing Sugar Creek (1 mile past the turn-off for Shades State Park).

Directions to Jim Davis Bridge
From Crawfordsville:

Google Map

• Take Indiana State Road 32 West from Crawfordsville for 6 miles.
• Turn Left on 600 W. for 4 miles.

Contact Matt Williams to register (deadline is May 29) or ask for more information ( matt@friendsofsugarcreek.org or 765-376-5213).

Other Interesting Links:

http://www.in.gov/dnr_old/outdoor/canoe/sugarcre.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer%27s_Mill,_Indiana

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Canoeing and Kayaking on Sugar Creek through Shades & Turkeyrun State Park, Memorial day Weekend - 2009

I hope you enjoy the highlights of my trip through Shades State Park and Turkeyrun State Park. This was a fabulous Canoeing, Kayaking, and Camping trip on a super great weekend here in Indiana. I have been to the Indy 500 the last 2 years and quite frankly there is no place (other than maybe the Kankakee River in Northern Indiana) that I would have rather been this weekend.

Seeing my 7yr old son take off on a kayak for his very first time was the best part of my trip. Nothing made me prouder than seeing him run his first Sugar Creek rapid and taking some initiative; while learning how to judge the currents and make it through. His arms raised with paddle held high in excitement flowing as fast as the creek was almost too much for my joyful heart. With that note let us get to watching some footage.

If you would like me and my son to come to your campground, visit your favorite creek or river, or check out your livery and services just send me an invite via Facebook, Twitter, or email! I would be more than happy to come with my cameras, joy, and maybe even a GPS. I can even bring a GEO Cache!

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Canoeing and Kayaking on Sugar Creek through Shades & Turkeyrun State Park, Memorial day Weekend - 2009

I hope you enjoy the highlights of my trip through Shades State Park and Turkeyrun State Park. This was a fabulous Canoeing, Kayaking, and Camping trip on a super great weekend here in Indiana. I have been to the Indy 500 the last 2 years and quite frankly there is no place (other than maybe the Kankakee River in Northern Indiana) that I would have rather been this weekend.

Seeing my 7yr old son take off on a kayak for his very first time was the best part of my trip. Nothing made me prouder than seeing him run his first Sugar Creek rapid and taking some initiative; while learning how to judge the currents and make it through. His arms raised with paddle held high in excitement flowing as fast as the creek was almost too much for my joyful heart. With that note let us get to watching some footage.

If you would like me and my son to come to your campground, visit your favorite creek or river, or check out your livery and services just send me an invite via Facebook, Twitter, or email! I would be more than happy to come with my cameras, joy, and maybe even a GPS. I can even bring a GEO Cache!

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A Greener Indiana Presents The Little Turtle Music and Arts Festival

What exactly will be going on here?

Who: 5,000 to 15,000 or so of our closest friends, lovers of music and the arts, those who are environmentally conscious and those who support a grass roots approach to bettering our community, our state and our country.

What: A two day music, camping and art festival featuring a wide range of professional musical entertainment on two stages along with a focus to providing a platform for education, demonstrations, and presentations on an array of pressing environmental issues from alternative power and fuel sources, to watershed management, green legislation, the importance of reducing waste, and our ecological footprint. We would like to see a weekend long effort to reduce landfill waste through zero waste concepts like recycling and composting while providing a large platform for nonprofits, grassroots groups, education organizations, and green businesses to reach the masses and parlay the benefits of such a large gathering.

Where: Porter County, IN Fair Grounds

When: Labor Day Weekend 2009

A Greener Indiana Presents Little Turtle Music and Arts Festival

• Brings revenue to the area

• Helps local businesses and merchants by bringing business awareness, and an opportunity to vend at the festival

• Makes the community an attractive place to live, stay, and visit

• Works as an educational tool and supports education (environment, arts, music, community importance)

• Provides a platform for Professional/Diverse Arts

• Provides a platform for nonprofits working in sustainability, environment, and conservation.

• Provides a platform for green businesses to present and solicit their products and programs.

• Provides exposure to the arts and environmental stewardship for young and old

• Provides social influence

• Provides employment opportunity locally for the week of the event

• Provides funding to sustain A Greener Indiana as an organization

• Provides funding and gift donations for charitable environmental programs and projects

Main Goals of Little Turtle Music and Arts Festival\A Greener Indiana

• Present the premier environmental entertainment/education event for Indiana

• To gather together a large mass of citizens.

• Leave No Footprint

• Present the first Zero Waste Music Festival in Indiana

• Builds towards being able to present an “Off-The-Grid” Indiana Festival.

• Raise environmental awareness through art, education, speakers, information booths, and demonstrations of green BMPs, products, and programs.

• Fund raise money to put back into local communities and the Indiana green movement.

Other Community Interactions

• Farmers Market

• Shakedown Street of Vendors

• Provide an Eco-Village area made up of environmental nonprofits, educational groups, and grassroots initiatives.

• Local Flea Market

• Get unsustainable businesses involved and retrofit them to become more environmentally conscious and sustainable.

• Give local artists, farmers, nonprofits, and business owners access to large numbers of new patrons to purchase their goods and services

• Give participants the ability to garner new membership, supporters, and stakeholders

Direct Marketing

• Space available for over 100 vendors and educators.

• Over 16 slots available for demonstrations/seminars/presenters/speakers

• Sponsorship tags available on banners/promo spots/merch/etc

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Urban Permaculture

Contributed by Mrs. Cara Dafforn

Jack-in-the-Pulpit root is used in alternative medicine and is edible (only after drying and cooking), it is acrid, antiseptic, diaphoretic, expectorant, irritant and stimulant. A medicinal poultice of root used for headaches and various skin diseases. Ointment used for ringworm, tetterworm and abscess. The fresh root contains high concentrations of calcium oxalate and is considered to be too dangerous and intensely acrid to use. Roasting the root after drying it 6 months removes the acridity. In this way Native Americans peeled and ground the roots to powder to make a bread, which has a flavor similar to chocolate. The roots can be cut into very thin slices and allowed to dry for several months, after which they are eaten like potato chips, crumbled to make a cereal or ground into a cocoa-flavored powder for making biscuits and cakes. A starch obtained from the roots is used as a stiffener for clothes.
Caution is advised as ingesting the fresh root can cause poisoning and even death.

 

The field guide to Indiana Wildflowers by Kay Yatskievych published by Indiana University Press on page 284 says this perennial herb grows in most counties of Indiana in woods and bogs.

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www.wildflower.org

 

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Urban Permaculture

Contributed by Mrs. Cara Dafforn

Jack-in-the-Pulpit root is used in alternative medicine and is edible (only after drying and cooking), it is acrid, antiseptic, diaphoretic, expectorant, irritant and stimulant. A medicinal poultice of root used for headaches and various skin diseases. Ointment used for ringworm, tetterworm and abscess. The fresh root contains high concentrations of calcium oxalate and is considered to be too dangerous and intensely acrid to use. Roasting the root after drying it 6 months removes the acridity. In this way Native Americans peeled and ground the roots to powder to make a bread, which has a flavor similar to chocolate. The roots can be cut into very thin slices and allowed to dry for several months, after which they are eaten like potato chips, crumbled to make a cereal or ground into a cocoa-flavored powder for making biscuits and cakes. A starch obtained from the roots is used as a stiffener for clothes.
Caution is advised as ingesting the fresh root can cause poisoning and even death.

 

The field guide to Indiana Wildflowers by Kay Yatskievych published by Indiana University Press on page 284 says this perennial herb grows in most counties of Indiana in woods and bogs.

www.easywildflowers.com
www.wildflower.org

 

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