Yesterday after the sustainable agriculture presentation we went over to the community garden plots and did our weekly weeding, harvesting and planting. Because the only plants that have been ready to harvest these past two weeks have been leafy greens (lettuce, spinach, toy choi) and other salad fixings (radishes, onions), Tara, our boss and director [...]
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June 10, 2009
Sustainable Agriculture at W.C.
Last night, Ohio Agriculture Director Robert Boggs and Senior Program Manager for Ohio Sustainable Agriculture Amalie Lipstreu addressed a crowd of almost 100 community members at the Kelly Center on the Wilmington College campus. The presentation, as I mentioned in the previous post, delt with the benefits of creating a strong, local food economy in [...]
May 14, 2009
Backyard Gardening: Day 1
Since graduation in March, I’ve been keeping a pseudo-bucket list of goals I want to accomplish when I move back here to Wilmington. It’s tentative, and mostly kept by memory, but it reads something like this: get Mom online; set up composting and recycling at our home; work to buy locally from [...]
