Bread and Roses Collective

Mission: Activist sustainable housing

From www.ic.org/directory/bread-and-roses-collective-house/:

The Bread and Roses Collective provides a model of cooperative living, ecological sustainability, and affordable housing in the heart of the city. We now have two houses linked by a half acre of land in the progressive Westcott neighborhood of Syracuse, NY, close to Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. One house is a beautiful 150 year-old historical house on a quiet residential street in Syracuse, NY. The other is over 120 years old, and newly renovated with a kitchen designed for a collective! We practice the idea of "Food, not Lawns" and have an intensive kitchen garden out front, a bathtub salad garden on our driveway, and backyard raised bed production over approximately 1,000 square feet and growing. It hosts several large raised beds, a six-bin compost system, a collection of baby fruit trees, berry bushes, a growing native plant population, and many storm water capture features. We also have two plots at at Morningside Community Garden which are used for growing more long season crops such as potatoes, cabbage, and garlic. We grow most of our own vegetables June-October, and preserve many types of foods for the winter such as jams, ketchup, salsas, pickles, and tomatoes.

We have a strong commitment to social justice and community participation, with a number of our members involved with local community benefit organizations and initiatives such as Food Not Bombs, The Syracuse Peace Council, The Alchemical Nursery, ArtRage Gallery, the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation and more. We have organized and led workshops on consensus process and democratic decision making, food preservation, composting, bike fixing, making salves and lotion, natural dyes, and more; and we’ve hosted a number of traveling activists, musicians, and culturally creative persons passing through, or stopping at, Syracuse! With our second house's location on a busy neighborhood street, we hope to increase our educational and community outreach programs.

 
 

Bread and Roses Collective

 
 

Bread and Roses Collective

Mission: Activist sustainable housing

From www.ic.org/directory/bread-and-roses-collective-house/:

The Bread and Roses Collective provides a model of cooperative living, ecological sustainability, and affordable housing in the heart of the city. We now have two houses linked by a half acre of land in the progressive Westcott neighborhood of Syracuse, NY, close to Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. One house is a beautiful 150 year-old historical house on a quiet residential street in Syracuse, NY. The other is over 120 years old, and newly renovated with a kitchen designed for a collective! We practice the idea of "Food, not Lawns" and have an intensive kitchen garden out front, a bathtub salad garden on our driveway, and backyard raised bed production over approximately 1,000 square feet and growing. It hosts several large raised beds, a six-bin compost system, a collection of baby fruit trees, berry bushes, a growing native plant population, and many storm water capture features. We also have two plots at at Morningside Community Garden which are used for growing more long season crops such as potatoes, cabbage, and garlic. We grow most of our own vegetables June-October, and preserve many types of foods for the winter such as jams, ketchup, salsas, pickles, and tomatoes.

We have a strong commitment to social justice and community participation, with a number of our members involved with local community benefit organizations and initiatives such as Food Not Bombs, The Syracuse Peace Council, The Alchemical Nursery, ArtRage Gallery, the Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation and more. We have organized and led workshops on consensus process and democratic decision making, food preservation, composting, bike fixing, making salves and lotion, natural dyes, and more; and we’ve hosted a number of traveling activists, musicians, and culturally creative persons passing through, or stopping at, Syracuse! With our second house's location on a busy neighborhood street, we hope to increase our educational and community outreach programs.

A service of the Data Commons Co-op. The project has been supported by Equal Exchange, the Cooperative Charitable Trust, the USDA, and many others - thank you! Tech volunteers over the years include: Benjamin Bradley with support from GAIA Host. Ben Mauer with support from Quilted. Paul Fitzpatrick. Ronin Tech Collective, Brattleboro Tech Collective, Sligo Computer Services. Jason Lemieux. Default map tiles courtesy of MapQuest. Default map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA.