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April,
2010
– Issue #107
A
whole lot of gardening goin’ on!
EASTER
DINNER
We got together
with neighbors Jeremy Jason and Haruka for dinner April 4th. We took two
pictures after dinner. Check out the other photo by passing your cursor
over this picture.
KALE ON A
GRAND SCALE
Kale is quickly
becoming one of our favorite vegetables because it is hardy all year round,
packed with vitamins and easy to prepare. We chop and sauté an onion,
strip the kale leaf from the stem, chop it up and toss with the onion, then add
some tamari or soy sauce and cover to steam, stirring occasionally until
tender. We often under-cook our greens and store them in the refrigerator
so they are ready to reheat for another meal.
SPOT’S AT IT
AGAIN
Our yard art, Spot
is a very outgoing fellow, welcoming our friends when they arrive at our home
for the first time. Shaine came for a short visit this month and Janice
and Joe joined us for a potluck.
OUR SPOT AFTER
DARK
Holden gestures to
Spot in some kind of alien language just after sundown on a potluck
evening. McGregor shares a few words with our happy mascot.
BRIAR
CHAPEL 5K
Some folks shine
at 7am and Tami is one of them. She picked Camille up at dawn on race day and
drove out to Briar
Chapel to set up a booth and take registrations. The folks at Briar
Chapel generously donated proceeds from the race to The
Abundance Foundation.
CLYDEFEST
Later that day,
Camille spent some time volunteering as the games coordinator at another annual
fund raising event in Bynum. Clydefest is organized by Chatham
Arts. Long time Chatham Arts patron, Efrain fixed a broken post around
the fish bowl game.
IN NEED OF
WEEDING
There are more
than half a dozen flower beds in our new yard and they all need attention.
We found a columbine blooming in the bed on the left and irises in the bed on
the right. Stay tuned for “after” pictures as Camille gets
around to cleaning up these beds.
CLOWNING
AROUND
Abundance and
Piedmont Biofuels supporter Nick poses with a beautiful head of lettuce he was
given after helping out at Piedmont Biofarm. The next day, at Shakori,
David’s white rimmed sunglasses caught my eye and as I snapped the picture,
Holden got into the act.
WHAT A
DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES
Or nine days,
actually. Besides harvesting the kale in the photo on the left, all of the
vegetables nearly doubled in size and the red tips went into bloom.
It pays to start
planting early as evidenced by the progress of our potatoes, carrots, onions,
beets and peas.
INNOVATION
In addition to
raised beds made from used cooking oil containers, Bob created a bed on
the top of an old trampoline. He intentionally made the lines that
delineate the beds point north, south, east and west. In this picture we
are looking north west.
ART AND
SCIENCE
Adam couldn’t
resist posing as the Vitruvian
man by laying down in this metal ring that Lyle gave Bob to use in making
yet another
raised bed. Carey joined us from across the street for potluck and soon
began to suspect that Spot was full of hot air.
FORGET ME
NOTS
Bob planted these happy little
flowers a year ago at Oilseed and didn’t forget to pot them up and bring them to
our new home.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“Gardening requires lots of
water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Lou Erickfson
“The greatest gift of the
garden is the restoration of the five senses.” – Hanna Rion
“The
best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.” –
Ghandi
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