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April, 2011 Issue #119
SURPRISE!
All four of us in
the kitchen again, this time making fifteen pounds of breaded seitan cutlets.
OUR
BEAUTIFUL WORLD
This is the
irrigation pond our neighbors dug to water their gardens. It’s a great
place to hang out and a great time of year because everything is greening up,
the light is spectacular and the bugs haven’t caught up with us yet.
Several of us got together one afternoon to spend some quality time in the woods
and drink it all in. More photos: Pond Wandering
ASPARAGUS
PARTY
A group of us got
together to help plant asparagus and share a potluck. Among us were
Jeremy, Tim, Andrew and the usual neighborhood cast and crew. More photos
here: Asparagus Planting
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY, HARUKA
Scott cut the
chocolate beet cake and we all enjoyed a piece with vanilla Rice Dream.
Yum!
SHAKORI!
It’s been a busy
spring so we were happy to take a break for play at: Shakori, Spring 2011
SHAINE’S
OUT OF TOWNERS
Both Shaine’s
husband and father visited this month and Spot was happy to meet them.
NODOKA
Nodoka, Haruka’s
sister flew in from Japan for a week of rest and relaxation after surviving the
earthquake. About the same time, the irises began to bloom.
EASTER
PEONIES
Fragrant Shirley
Temple and Mrs. FDR bloomed for Easter Sunday.
MUSHROOM
WORKSHOP
Bob taught Fungi
101 at The Plant as part of The Abundance Foundation’s Do-it-yourself workshop
series. Melea brought a hand drill to make the holes with and it worked
fine. It’s always good to see how much we don’t need electricity!
PIZZA AND
MUSHROOMS
Garth showed us
how to make Chicago pizza and Amy made this one in our frying pan. Needless to
say, it was de-lish! Meanwhile, back in the work room, Bob continues to
propagate black poplar mushrooms.
HOLY
SHIITAKE!
Shitake logs a
poppin! Brought about by cool, wet weather.
MORELS AND
SCAT
April 17th we
found more than a dozen morels near the tulip poplar with Jason and
Haruka. We took them to the house and fried them in margarine and ate them
straight away. They tasted like bacon or cheddar cheese.
We also found an
interesting pile of poop. At first we thought the animal who shat it had
been eating a colorful carpet but upon inspection we agreed that what we were
seeing were feathers from a cardinal.
TALKING
TRASH EVENT
Camille
volunteered to be Dottie Bottle, Bob went to talk about compost and Link
promoted recycled cooking oil.
Diane and Scotty
brought books to the swap table where Bob picked up a couple of DVDs.
Here’s Dottie with her crew – the Can Guy and Beauty Fly.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“Calling incinerators
‘waste-to-energy’ is a marketing ploy by the incinerator industry to peddle
their wares,” said Brenda Platt, co-director of the Institute for Local
Self-Reliance, a waste reduction group based in Washington. She said recycling
waste “generally saves far more energy than burning it generates.”
“Africa could actually feed
itself if there was a conducive political and economic climate, and if the West
would stop this whole ‘feed the world’ myth that is really just a self-serving
cover to keep the farm lobby in its pockets,” Beth from Lusaka, Zambia.
“If Jesus had been killed
twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric
chairs around their necks instead of crosses.” – Lenny Bruce
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