Mastodawn

"girls have finally swiped the boys' last private, personal thing"

This is from a magazine for teens in the St. Louis area; apparently, traditional gender roles were melting away. In 1949.

(We all agree "Speed Clayton" won the name lottery, though, right?)

#stlouis #saintlouismo #stl #1940s #gender #masculinity #feminism #youthculture #levis #denim #historyoffashion #oldnews

DoomsdaysCW Jan 18

#InPerson and #VirtualClass - #SaintLouisMO - Grow Your Own Vegetable Seedlings (In Person)

By #SeedSaintLouis

In Person - Saturday, Feb 7, 2026 from 10am to 11am CST
Virtually - Thursday, January 29, 2026 6:00-7:00 pm!

"It's time to start your vegetable and herb seedlings! Chani Sorkin, Seed St. Louis' Director of Community Projects, will cover the basics of starting seeds, what supplies you will need, and general tips and tricks so you have happy, healthy seedlings to grow bountiful food come spring. At this in person class, each person will be planting a few of their own seeds to take home.

This in person class will be located at the Delmar Divine at 5501 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63112 in the Berges Conference Room. There is free street parking all along Belt Avenue.

We are also offering this as a virtual class on Thursday, January 29th, 6:00-7:00 pm!

Seed St. Louis may photograph and record portions of this event for promotional purposes. By registering for this event, you grant permission for your image to appear in a public media production and in print and digital materials.

Delmar Divine
5501 Delmar Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63112

Preregistration required. Cost is free."

"Since 1984 Seed St. Louis has connected people to the land, to their food, and to each other. We are a 501c3 nonprofit who supports a network of over 250 #CommunityGardens, #SchoolGardens, and #UrbanOrchards in neighborhoods throughout the St. Louis region. Our purpose is to provide communities with the tools, education, and empowerment to grow their own food."

Learn more, sign up.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grow-your-own-vegetable-seedlings-in-person-tickets-1978162062981?aff=erelexpmlt

Virtual event:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5117653933256/WN_tVYcsG7wSl-7XTd7rBTeJw#/registration

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedStarting #Gardening #GardeningClasses #FoodSecurity #GrowYourOwn
#GrowYourOwnFood #Missouri

Grow Your Own Vegetable Seedlings (In Person)

Attend this in-person class to learn how to grow your own seedlings!

Eventbrite

DoomsdaysCW Dec 28

THIS EVENT HAS PASSED!

#SaintLouisMO - How to Start a #CommunityFoodProject
By #SeedSaintLouis

Jan 17 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm CST

"Overview: Learn the steps to successfully start your own community or school garden or orchard!

In this class, we will go over the steps to successfully start your own community or school garden, or orchard. This class synthesizes our 40 years of organizational experience supporting groups to make successful projects. We will go over our documents, examples, and other resources so you can utilize them to start your own project. We will also have time to allow you to meet other attendees to collaborate, and we will do some hands-on activities to help you plan your site."

Date: January 17, 2025, 12:30-2:30 pm
Location: Ameren Community Room, Delmar Divine

The Delmar Divine is at 5501 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63112. There is free street parking all along Belt Avenue.

Preregistration required. Cost is free.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-start-a-community-food-project-tickets-1853793529349?aff=Websitexx

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #GrowYourOwn #GrowingFood #FoodForests #Missouri

How to Start a Community Food Project

Learn the steps to successfully start your own community or school garden or orchard!

Eventbrite

DoomsdaysCW Jul 31, 2025

A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk

by Ronnie Cohen, July 21, 2025

"Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.

"The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, corroborate worries that neighbors of Coldwater Creek have long held about the #MissouriRiver tributary where generations of children played.

" 'We actually saw something quite dramatic, not only elevated risk of cancer, but one that increased steadily in a sort of dose-response manner the closer the childhood residents got to Coldwater Creek,' said the study's senior author, Marc Weisskopf, an epidemiology professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"As part of the #ManhattanProject, #Mallinckrodt Chemical Works processed #uranium in #SaintLouisMO for the development of an #AtomicBomb. By the mid-1940s, according to historians, the company began to haul its #RadioactiveWaste north of the city, leaving it in open steel drums, unattended and exposed to the elements, next to #ColdwaterCreek."

[...]

"Almost one-quarter of the participants [in a study] reported having cancer. Those who lived within one kilometer of the creek as children were 44% more likely to report having cancer than those who lived more than 20 kilometers away. Even more striking, those who lived within one kilometer of the creek were 85% more likely to have radiosensitive cancers, cancers believed to be caused by radiation."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5474883/nuclear-waste-manhattan-project-missouri-reca-jama?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Downwinders #WaterIsLife #NuclearWasteIsForever #NPRReporting