We’ve come a long way since our last garden meeting! This is what’s been happening.
After we had our soil tested, we made a list of all the veggies everyone wanted to try to grow and came up with a pretty ambitious list. Every person was then responsible for doing a little research on a few different plants. While everyone was reading up on their veggies we ordered the seeds from Seed Savers Exchange and anxiously awaited their arrival.
Fast forward a few weeks and here we are with starts growing in the basement under lights, a plowed and tilled garden plot with fencing, and a composting bin made from thin willow logs.
This is our first time gardening anything more than a few tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers in pots on the window sill. Our plot is 30 ft. X 40 ft. with a separate plot for extra potatoes. We had anticipated that it would be a lot of work, but you never really know how much work until you are standing before a seemingly huge plot of upturned earth with a rake in your hand and the sun blazing down on your back. But it’s been refreshing and rewarding to feel the work in my body. Something that I can’t really say I experience sitting at the computer all day.
To quote what Andrew said in a previous post
“the day we’re laying on our backs in our overalls eating fresh, warm strawberries straight off the vine in the summer sun will be the day I happily forget all the planning and laboring.”
–c.
We’ve come a long way since our last garden meeting! This is what’s been happening.
After we had our soil tested, we made a list of all the veggies everyone wanted to try to grow and came up with a pretty ambitious list. Every person was then responsible for doing a little research on a few different plants. While everyone was reading up on their veggies we ordered the seeds from Seed Savers Exchange and anxiously awaited their arrival.
Fast forward a few weeks and here we are with starts growing in the basement under lights, a plowed and tilled garden plot with fencing, and a composting bin made from thin willow logs.
This is our first time gardening anything more than a few tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers in pots on the window sill. Our plot is 30 ft. X 40 ft. with a separate plot for extra potatoes. We had anticipated that it would be a lot of work, but you never really know how much work until you are standing before a seemingly huge plot of upturned earth with a rake in your hand and the sun blazing down on your back. But it’s been refreshing and rewarding to feel the work in my body. Something that I can’t really say I experience sitting at the computer all day.
To quote what Andrew said in a previous post
“the day we’re laying on our backs in our overalls eating fresh, warm strawberries straight off the vine in the summer sun will be the day I happily forget all the planning and laboring.”
–c.
We’re back from NYC! Thanks to our Brooklyn friends that came out to see us on our short visit, we had a wonderful time as usual.
Before we embarked on our 8+ hour drive from NE Ohio to Brooklyn, NY, Andrew printed out a list of every local NPR station from here to there ensuring our listening capabilities. We’ve done the drive so many times that we have to keep coming up with new ideas to keep us occupied. And this brings me to the main purpose of this post!
I’m sure many people are getting weary of listening or watching the news and being bombarded with dropping employment rates, rising UNemployment rates, stimulus packages, and swine flu. Talk about a real downer! Unfortunately, the bad economy has hit us close to home so I’ve been especially happy to announce that I am contributing to a new blog dedicated completely to thinking positive.
The company I work at, Wise Group, has launched a grass-roots campaign to “Unleash the Positive” to inspire people during these tough times. My first post on the wiseUP blog is up today, you can check it out here.
You can check out all the posts by going to www.wisegroup.com/blog where you can learn about our “10 to Change” challenge where we are encouraging people to try to make a difference in the world/community/city/town/themselves with only $10. My “10 to Change” idea will be posted next Wednesday (May 20th) so check back then to see what I came up with.
If you have any ideas for a “10 to Change” please feel free to email me or my editor Ann at Wise Group and we will post it on our site.
–c.
If you haven’t noticed, our blog has a new look. Tonight I played around with different layouts and this is what I ended up with. I still haven’t wrapped my head around how these layouts work so it was a bit frustrating at times. I’m going to play around with it a little more since I’m not 100% happy with it, but it’s a start. We’ll see where this goes.
This image is currently my desktop and it makes me really happy.
[Photo by John Rawlings. Available to purchase at Condé Nast]
– c.
Rainy Opening Day at Jacobs Field
Thanks to Stephanie over at even*cleveland, I have a new obsession. I’d never heard of Polyvore before and I can’t get enough. If you haven’t played with it before, now is the time. Register and start creating outfits. And if you want to check out some really sweet ensembles you should check out even*cleveland‘s “imaginary outfits” here. Some people can get really crazy with their layouts, but personally I enjoy Stephanie’s more pared down look. If only I had so many things to choose from…
–c.