Rhizome Collective open house for organizations who want to use 10 acres in East Austin!
The Rhizome Collective would like you or your organization to come visit the Grove field and consider use of 10 acres of land in East Austin!
You might be wondering to yourself, what is this Grove field? What kind of use are they looking for? Might this be some way that I could benefit my organization and the larger community? More importantly, when can I drop by and check this place out??
Well mark your calender because this Saturday the 27th at 2pm, the Rhizome Collective is having an open house of the East Austin gem known as the Grovefield! It is open to all interested parties to give an idea of what we have to provide you or your organization to become part of our organization and help fulfill our mission.
We are working to build the world we want to live in. In our worldview, the dominant values of competition, greed and exploitation would be replaced with cooperation, autonomy and egalitarianism. We believe that all struggles against oppression and for self-determination are connected, and that it is important to construct viable alternatives while simultaneously fighting for social justice.
The majority of your questions can probably be answered here:
www.rhizomecollective.org/node/83
(Please feel free to email questions after the full text of the call for proposals has been read)
History of Grove Field
In 2004, the Rhizome Collective was donated a 9.8 acre brownfield in the Montopolis neighborhood. The property served as a legally operated municipal landfill from 1967 to 1970, and was illegally dumped on for approximately fifteen years following the closure of the landfill. We received a $200,000 EPA Brownfield Cleanup Award to clean the property (and completed the project in 2006). In 2006 The city of Austin changed the status of the field from brownfield to a Greenfield. A stroll away from the Colorado River, the resulting grove field is a beautiful wooded area populated by herds of deer and little else.
There are a few structures that we had built over the years as well as one of the first permitted composting toilets in Texas. We have no running water or electricity, however we have a decent rainwater collection system which irrigates some vegetable gardens and feeds the solar shower. Basically, Grove Field is an undeveloped gem unlike any other property in East Austin.
http://www.rhizomecollective.org/node/8
Thank you very much for your time and we will see you Saturday!
