On Friday, about 300 oak and sugar maple logs from the northern forest were transported by sail-powered cargo ship Apollonia to the industrial waters near Red Hook. They will be used to cultivate shiitake mushrooms using traditional Japanese methods.
Shiitake mushrooms are favored by chefs for their smoky and salty taste. But it was their "sailboat" transportation method that attracted dozens of enthusiasts to Gowanus Bay Terminal (GBX~).
The delivery became a Red Hook shindig, offering local food and beverages, selling Hudson Valley products, traditional music and lectures on growing shiitake mushrooms.
The Apollonia has entered its second month to deliver local products to ports along the river. The restoration of sustainable carbon-neutral shipping is the dream of Apollonia captain Sam Merrett. Creating a community is equally important to him.
"What we are trying to do is bring the sail back," he told the Brooklyn Eagle. "We would love to find a community of people interested in obtaining sail goods. By doing so, we can help them make responsible choices as consumers and connect them with our outstanding northern partners who make all the These delicious things."
The Apollonia will dock at GBX~ from the last Friday of every month to October, just a stone’s throw away from IKEA in Brooklyn.
After unloading, it is delivered via solar-powered cargo bicycles, and if logistics can be arranged, wooden carriages are used.
Merrett said that although the transportation time is slower than traditional truck transportation, the Apollonia uses renewable energy and emits no emissions, which is a net benefit for time-insensitive cargo.
Mushroom expert Steve Gabriel and urban agriculture expert Yolanda Gonzalez collaborated with the Cornell Small Farm Project. Gabriel said that the community gardener in Red Hook asked them where they could find logs for growing shiitake mushrooms.
The team found a lumberjack near Kingston who was eager to harvest logs and transport them to a nearby dock.
"We unloaded them today and then got a bunch of vaccinations with our community partner Red Hook Community Farm," Gabriel said.
"When you inoculate it, you will drill about 30 or 40 holes," he explained. "You insert the mycelium. This is the body structure of the fungus, not the mushroom. This is the fruit. You wax the hole, and then put the log in the shade. It must be left for about a year, and it will produce about three Years of mushrooms. Logs will actually decompose within a few years, and mushrooms will emerge from anywhere.
"A lot of people are very excited because shiitake mushrooms are very suitable for the shaded space of community gardens," he said.
The Apollonia's port of call in Brooklyn is on a barge provided by the owner of GBX~, industrialist John Quadrozzi. He is sponsoring the barge of the non-profit RETI Center, which is turning it into a learning center. The RETI Center was established to develop Red Hook's resilience after Superstorm Sandy destroyed the community in 2012.
Quadrozzi is working with RETI Center to build a floating industrial ecological laboratory and community space (called BlueCity) in GBX~ waters.
Quadrozzi is a lifelong rider. He is the son of a stunt rider and the grandson of an immigrant blacksmith. He revived the historic Prospect Park stables and was run by his daughter Xiana Quadrozzi as the Brooklyn Horse, also known as "Be ".
The Quadrozzi father and daughter team arranged a carriage team to transport last month's rye cargo to the local brewery, and plans to bring the carriage back for future delivery.
“GBX~ is not only sponsoring and promoting this water, wind, pedal and traditional horsepower project here, but it is also sending a message that fossil substitutes and sustainability are in our grasp-if we stop accepting deliveries to us Things, start thinking about working hard for yourself, paying ten times in return." Quadrosz said.
GBX~ also plans to host itselectric, an electric vehicle roadside charging startup founded by Nathan King, at the RETI Center. Quadrozzi said the charger will be "powered by solar energy and horse manure in an off-grid, fully sustainable system for anaerobic digestion."
When talking about the mushroom theme event, Quadrozzi added: "I want to be a fun person by connecting dots and promoting fungi with horse dung. I want to make the most of everything in green and brown!"
When musicians Jackson Lynch (violinist) and Wyndham Baird (guitarist) provided a cheerful folk music background, Bradworth, executive director of the New York Conservation Archives project and captain of the Govanus Dredger Canoe Club Geer sat on a table filled with wool, honey, maple syrup and other items, "including some pepper maple syrup, I must say, very good."
"The whole point of this adventure is to make people think about how they get the goods and realize that they have better, more sustainable choices," Vogel said.
"And there is a story to accompany it, and there is a connection, a real human relationship. When the ship picks up goods from users in the north, when it stops at various ports along the way, when it comes here and we hold events for people At times, there will be interactions and connections between people-this is a very valuable thing in today's world."
On one side of the RETI center barge, tall grass-like purslane plants float in an open wooden frame.
Tim Gilman-Sevcik, Executive Director of the RETI Center, said: "Today is the launch of our floating garden system." (RETI stands for resilience, education, training and innovation, he said.) "It will be dragged to Governors Island. We will have One archipelago, a group of six."
"Spartina is a marshland plant that can withstand brackish and salt water inundation," he said. By floating it in the water, "you will generate a large biome from phytoplankton to insects. We will have oyster thread and muscle thread hanging on them, and we can use them to grow kelp... with nutrients Into the water, there will be a lot of rearing fish appear, so it can produce a kind of coral reef effect."
Nika Carlson, who owns Greenpoint Cidery, lives on a trailer in the Hudson Apple Orchard when she is not in Greenpoint. On Friday, she distributed samples of her handmade cider.
She said that, like sailing freight, producing high-quality cider is a slow process. "All this takes time. Apple juice takes a long time to mature, and it takes a long time for apples to grow. Once pressed into juice, it takes at least a year. During my use, it is ready to serve. Just like wine. ,needs time."
Photographer Laurent Apollon, who moved from France to Brooklyn, said that he has been interested in "slow motion" for many years. He participated in the environmentally friendly cargo ship of the French company Grain de Sail, which transports cargo by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. He said he sent an article by Eagle "thousands of times" on board.
"We are sending Sail Mail," said Jessie Hutt, who used old photos to make greeting cards and sell them through her Squid Bath company.
"If you know someone along the schooner—Manhattan, Ossining, Newburgh, Kingston, Saugerty, and Hudson—you can write a letter here and send it to your friend, you You can ask your friends to pick up a piece of mail," she said.
"I like the message and vision of leaving a good carbon footprint and bringing things back to a more environmentally friendly place. Also, I really like boats so I can do anything on the water," Red Hook's Fort Defiance grocery store Assistant General Manager Kelly Bobeck said. "And I really like all the eclectic vendors." She said that Fort Defiance will reopen soon.
"What they are doing has left a deep impression on me-it has changed some paradigms. Matthew Granding, who is engaged in custom manufacturing in Brooklyn, said: "Not everything has to come by truck. "
Will Ngo, the principal architect of TO WN Design in Manhattan, said that he met Tim Gilman-Sevcik in a project called Gulliver's Gate in Times Square. "We became friends and he invited me to join the board of RETI Center two years ago.
"Over the past few decades, architecture, design, and problem solving through design have been my interests. So when Tim asked me about the RETI Center and what the organization is trying to do-essentially in 2012 I immediately became interested in building more resilient communities after Hurricane Sandy in 2009," Ngo said.
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