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April, 2009 - Issue #95

 

GETTING THE WORD OUT

    Camille proudly displays an article she wrote for the free weekly about a Cohousing project she and Bob have been working on.   Click on the photo for a closer look.

 

DRINKS AND LINK

Link isn't drinking these days but came over at cocktail hour anyway to visit.  Chris and Samantha joined us a well.  This was Chris's last week on project.  He is moving to Long Island to work on an exciting project with a group from Cornell.

 

DOGWOODS AT THE NUCLEAR PLANT

 

We took advantage of our first free morning to go hiking at the park nearby the nuclear plant.  More photos here: Shearon Harris Hiking

 

VARMINTS

Some troublesome wood mice set up house in Camelina and multiplied, nesting in our clothes and in our shoes.  We finally figured out how to dispose of them by gluing sunflower seeds to the traps but continued to find old nests after they were gone.

 

And in the walls of our house.  This abandoned nest likely belonged to a bird.

 

TRAIL RIDING

 

Camille makes the sacrifice as a volunteer nearly every week to give the horses and ponies at Heads Up Therapeutic Riding some exercise on the 1,000 acres of trails behind the stables.  Somebody's got to do it!  More photos here: Heads Up 2009

 

AFTER THE RAIN

 

It's been a wet spring and everything is beginning to come back to life.  The trees seem to reach out for the sun after a good rain and the clothesline glistens with drops.

 

WORK AND PLAY AT SHAKORI

 

Spring means the Shakori Hills Spring Music Festival is coming around on the guitar.  We decided to pay our way in with volunteer hours this time.  Bob worked set-up a week before the festival and Camille worked the ticket counter and the Solarize Shakori booth during the festival.  There is more on this page: Spring Shakori

 

GOING BANANAS

 

At Piedmont Biofuels, we are determined to grow bananas.  Towards that end, Tami's brother helped dig them up before the first frost and returned after the last frost this month to help Link and Camille put them back into the ground.   It was quite a process but would not have been possible were it not for Michael's expertise and ditch-digging tractor.

 

THE NOT SO SECRET WORLD OF PLANTS

 

Bob is morphing into a farmer before our very eyes.  He's read at least a dozen books on everything from lasagna gardening to farm business management over the past several months.  In addition to overflowing container gardens, Bob has begun planting lettuce, wheat, peas, potatoes, and onions, and other plants in the ground.  He started this flat of tomatoes under lights in the bedroom.  More photos here: Trouts Guantanamo April, 2009

 

BEE BED WORK DAY

 

Debbie Roos came out and with the help of a healthy group of volunteers, including Jessica, Sarah, Dana, Sue, Tami, Bart and Lin.  We made a world of difference to the three big bee beds at in only two hours and then sat in the shade for salad and pizza. 

 

GROW DOWN

 

We got together with a  great group of people in Chapel Hill to celebrate spring and support their community garden.  More photos here: Carolina Garden Coop

 

CLYDEFEST

This woman on stilts was the only photo Camille got from the annual Clydefest in Bynum because she was too busy volunteering on behalf of The Plenty.  The Clydefest celebrates legendary folk artist Clyde Jones, a man who gets around the small community of Bynum on a riding lawn mower and who has a talent for carving critters from logs with a chain saw.

 

STRAWBERRY WINDFALL

 

 Eastern Carolina Organics sometimes has to reject produce.  When that happens we all head to the warehouse for free whatever.  When we got the Strawberry email, we jumped on it and brought home three flats or 24 pounds of beautiful, ripe berries. 

 

What we didn't eat, we froze.

THIS MONTH'S QUOTES:

"The ship is on the rocks, water is rising, and the captain is shouting "Full steam ahead! We are sailing to Afghanistan!" Do you listen to Ahab up on the bridge, or do you desert your post in the engine room and go help deploy the lifeboats? Right now the Washington economic stimulus team is putting on their Scuba gear and diving down to the engine room to try to invent a way to get a diesel engine to run on seawater." - Dmitri Orlov on Social Collapse

"The Great Depression was a time for discussing all sorts of alternatives to the Wall Street crapshoot, which had suddenly killed so many businesses, including banks. The crapshooot left millions and millions of Americans without any way to pay for food and shelter and clothing.

So what?" - Kurt Vonnegut

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