First Recyclab delivery tricycle

Our first 100% recycled tricycle! Come to try it on 21 February at the Repair Cafe!

 

Repair Café #2 / Saturday 22 february at RecycLab

Hello to all,

There is a new Repair Café  organised at RecycLab on the afternoon of Saturday, 22nd of February. This event is in partnership with the association “Colombes à Vélo” who will be present to help with bike repairs.

What is it?

Repair Café is an afternoon workshop where you can bring your broken, worn and damaged objects to learn how to repair. A team of volunteer repairers and self-service tools will be present to assist you in your given project, whether fixing clothes, bikes, toys, broken or damaged crockery, kitchen utensils, electric appliances, or even learning how to navigate computer software..

We are looking for volunteers to lend a hand with repairs (elecronics, sewing, etc). Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are available.

 

For more information about the Repair Café, please visit our offical site:

http://repaircafe.org/fr/

DIY workshop in the greenhouse 2/2

This Saturday, it was the second workshop session DIY in the greenhouse.
After the last large cleaning workshop, we now have room for a new layout!
We worked with the stock materials (bottom plot) that we collected in the surrounding areas during the year. It is basically reclaimed wood in various forms: different types of pallets, battens, wooden furniture recovered from the street …

Thus, we have improved the high seedlings table to make it waterproof. We used a variety of glaziers (that is to say, designed to carry vertical windows) given by a neighboring company, O2 Seine Fenêtres, located avenue de Stalingrad, to build a storage for garden tools. A chair that would be discarded was repaired and modified with elements found in the stock: a drawer below the seat as small storage and a coat for children, which solidifies the broken case. Finally, a micro-stove was built of brick and mud, just in time to heat water for the mint tea!

DIY workshop in the greenhouse 1/2

This Saturday, there was great commotion in and around the greenhouse.
At first we had to deal with the monumental harvest of fruits and vegetables from the Marcea and Asnières markets, made ​​a few hours earlier by Fabrice, Adrian and Leo. At 13h, the time when the market closes, there is a lot of interesting waste for the garden: overripe fruit, unsold vegetable crates and cartons. The gardeners are bound to sort all this up: first the fruit still edible was set aside, so that everyone was able to take one. Some have recovered and dried seeds in anticipation of future planting. Finally, all that was damaged was divided between compost and vermicompost: worms in the worm farm were treated to a feast!

 
Then everyone got their hands in the dough to store the greenhouse. In fact, due to the approach of winter, it was about arranging this common store, so that everyone can make its seed and shelter when the weather is cold. Everyone has actively participated in the great Fall Cleaning: sorting, storage, washing furniture and weeding the soil. Thus, the greenhouse was completely emptied and refurbished: we built a large table and a micro-sowing seed bank. The development continues on Oct. 13, including storage shelves and a small warm seating area for this winter. Any idea is welcome!

 

 

Bicycle repair workshop

This week, we had a parade of bicycles in the garden. Within the Mechanical Sundays event offered by the association “Colombes à vélo”, bocycle tinkering specialists offered their services to anyone who wanted to learn how to repair his bike. In the garden, it was a pretty sight: the neighborhood kids with wrenches, gardeners repairing their bikes, a team of residents and AAA members who attempted a first test water pump driven by a pedal mechanism. Stay tuned … Thus, ten bikes were repaired, belonging to the neighborhood and elsewhere, who went away with a smile. In addition, in the shared garden, gardeners were busy weeding, composting, planting winter vegetables. In parallel, Yvon Pradier, from Nature Ecology, worked on the farm to prepare us a quality earthworm vermicompost. The school garden has also received an overhaul, necessary because it was temporarily crowded after the start of construction.